AI-Driven Cloud Platform Lead Engineer

Nasdaq; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with 6% employer match

Employee Stock Purchase Program 15%

Student loan repayment

Company paid life and disability plans

Generous paid time off

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Job summary

Nasdaq is hiring a Lead Engineer in Atlanta to shape cloud, platform, and reliability foundations for the Capital Access Platforms. You will drive technical strategy, drive operational maturity, and embed AI-enabled delivery at scale.

You will lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and define reference architectures, automation, and governance for AWS/Azure infrastructure, containers, and security. Hybrid work is available in Atlanta.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a related field.
• Hands-on cloud/platform/reliability engineering experience.
• Expert-level Terraform experience including module design and policy as code.
• Deep experience with AWS and/or Azure, Kubernetes, containers, and cloud networking.
• Strong site reliability engineering background with observability and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive cloud/platform strategy with Terraform modules, automation, and standards for AWS/Azure infra, networking, identity, containers, security.
• Establish and lead site reliability engineering practices—SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, observability, incidents, resilience, and operations.
• Define and advance an AI-enabled development lifecycle across planning to monitoring, embedding AI into pipelines.
• Lead complex programs across teams, translating business objectives into architectures, roadmaps, and execution plans.
• Mentor engineers and leaders, elevating engineering capability across the organization without direct authority.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Hands-on leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security best practices

Job description

Nasdaq is hiring a Lead Engineer in Atlanta to shape cloud, platform, and reliability foundations for the Capital Access Platforms. You will drive technical strategy, drive operational maturity, and embed AI-enabled delivery at scale.

You will lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and define reference architectures, automation, and governance for AWS/Azure infrastructure, containers, and security. Hybrid work is available in Atlanta.