AWS Cloud Engineering Team Lead

Kyndryl; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 124,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineering Team Lead (Cloud Operations) for a 5-month contract in Toronto with hybrid work (3 days onsite per week). The role focuses on operational efficiency, incident management, stakeholder engagement, FinOps practices, and people leadership to deliver a high-quality user experience.

Ideal candidate has 10+ years in infrastructure and AWS, expertise in Terraform, and strong ITSM and security/cost controls.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure and AWS Cloud Engineering.
• Experience leading Cloud Platform and Product Components.
• Ability to lead troubleshooting, issue investigation, and resolution.
• Strong knowledge of Service Management and ITSM processes.
• Peer review code (AWS Tech Stack) for accuracy and best practices.
• Knowledge of cloud security and cost governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead Cloud Operations team activities and escalation support.
• Oversee incident and escalation management for AWS workloads.
• Engage stakeholders to deliver a high-quality user experience.
• Implement FinOps practices and cost governance.
• Drive operational efficiency improvements across cloud platforms.
• Mentor and lead AWS engineering teams.

Skills

Infrastructure experience

AWS infra engineering

Terraform

AWS networking

Cloud leadership

ITSM

Cost governance/FinOps

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Position: AWS Cloud Engineering Team Lead (Cloud Operations)

Client: Financial Sector

Location: Toronto (Hybrid) - 3 days onsite per week

Duration: 5 months contract with potential extensions

Language: English

Background

Our financial sector client requires the services of an AWS Cloud Engineer Team Lead to support the Cloud Platform and Product Components.

This is an operations-focused leadership role centered on operational efficiency, incident and escalation management, stakeholder engagement, cloud FinOps practices, and people leadership to deliver a consistently high-quality user experience.

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure and AWS Cloud Engineering
• Support Cloud Platform and Product Components
• Ability to lead troubleshooting, issue investigation, and resolution
• Technical strength to lead Cloud Operations team activities and member,s and escalation support.
• Strong knowledge of Service Management and ITSM processes
• Regularly Peer Review code (limited to AWS Tech Stack) for accuracy and best practices, operational stability
• Ensure strong cloud security and cost management controls are maintained

Skills

• 10+ years of infrastructureexperience
• 5+ years of experience on engineering AWS infra with relevant services: IAM, EC2, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, KMS, VPC, Cognito, Config, SCP, CloudTrail, VPC Endpoint, Quick Suite.
• Demonstrated expertise using Terraform to design, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge on AWS networking services such as Transit Gateway, Route 53, firewall
• AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional level certification - Nice to Have
• Knowledge Across Cloud Security Practices and Tools, Architecture, FinOps and Cost Governance
• Lead continued improvement efforts for operational efficiency and improvement

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Please note this is for a contract position with one of our clients and not a fulltime employment role with Kyndryl Canada