AWS Architect & Platform Engineering Lead

Micrologic; Parsippany-Troy Hills (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Micrologic Associates seeks an experienced AWS Architect & Platform Engineering Lead to design, implement, and operate our cloud infrastructure. You will guide a team of AWS engineers to deliver a stable, scalable cloud platform that accelerates product development and business outcomes.

The role blends strategic architecture with hands-on engineering, including SLAs, DR, security, and cost governance. You will own platform reliability and champion modern cloud practices across development teams.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience in cloud engineering, architecture, or platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS core services, VPC design, IAM, security, and multi account strategy.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Experience with ECS/EKS, Lambda, EventBridge, and event driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, DevOps pipelines, and automation.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Experience owning SLAs, DR, incident response, and operational reliability.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Define reference architectures, platform patterns, and architecture modernization roadmaps (microservices, serverless, containers).
• Lead multi account strategy, landing zone design, IAM governance, and network architecture.
• Partner with Product, Platform, and Development leaders to align cloud strategy with business priorities.
• Build and maintain platform components including CI/CD pipelines, shared services, observability stack, and deployment frameworks.
• Implement infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK with strong GitOps discipline.
• Drive automation across provisioning, scaling, patching, and operational workflows.
• Ensure platform consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments.
• Lead, mentor, and develop senior AWS engineers; provide technical direction, required coaching, and guidance.
• Manage sprint planning, workload distribution, and delivery commitments.
• Set engineering standards for IaC, CI/CD, security, automation, and documentation.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Skills

AWS architecture

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD / GitOps

Team leadership

Security & IAM governance

FinOps / cost governance

Observability

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

GitOps

ECS / EKS

Lambda

Job description

At Micrologic Associates, we provide top notch products, services, and support to our clients in the car wash and quick lube industries. Offering a variety of equipment and software solutions, we aim to shape the future of car washing with cutting-edge products and services that recognize the changing needs of the industry. We thrive on turning ideas into solutions and always strive for excellence.

The AWS Architect & Platform Engineering Lead is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the company’s cloud and platform infrastructure. This dual role blends strategic architecture, hands on engineering, and platform ownership, including SLAs, reliability, DR, security, and cost governance.

The role also leads a team of AWS engineers to deliver a stable, scalable, and modern cloud platform that

accelerates product development and business outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Cloud Architecture & Technical Strategy

• Architect scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Define reference architectures, platform patterns, and architecture modernization roadmaps (microservices, serverless, containers).
• Lead multi account strategy, landing zone design, IAM governance, and network architecture.
• Partner with Product, Platform, and Development leaders to align cloud strategy with business priorities.
• Build and maintain platform components including CI/CD pipelines, shared services, observability stack, and deployment frameworks.
• Implement infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK with strong GitOps discipline.
• Drive automation across provisioning, scaling, patching, and operational workflows.
• Ensure platform consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments.

Platform Ownership: SLAs, Reliability, DR, Security

• Own platform SLAs, uptime targets, and performance baselines; ensure adherence through proactive engineering.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post mortem processes; drive continuous reliability improvements.
• Own Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy, including RTO/RPO definitions, failover design, and DR testing cadence.
• Maintain platform security posture: IAM, secrets management, encryption, network segmentation, compliance controls.
• Implement FinOps practices and continuously optimize cloud spend.

AWS Administration & Operations

• Manage day to day AWS administration including IAM, VPC, routing, backups, patching, and resource governance.
• Maintain monitoring, logging, and observability systems (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Ensure operational readiness for new services, features, and platform capabilities.
• Oversee environment lifecycle management across dev, staging, and production.

Leadership of AWS Engineering Team

• Lead, mentor, and develop senior AWS engineers; provide technical direction, required coaching, and guidance.
• Manage sprint planning, workload distribution, and delivery commitments.
• Set engineering standards for IaC, CI/CD, security, automation, and documentation.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Skills & Experience

• 8-12 years of experience in cloud engineering, architecture, or platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS core services, VPC design, IAM, security, and multi account strategy.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
• Experience with ECS/EKS, Lambda, EventBridge, and event driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, DevOps pipelines, and automation.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Experience owning SLAs, DR, incident response, and operational reliability.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification.
• Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, or golden paths.
• Experience with FinOps, cost governance, and cloud budget management.
• Experience with security frameworks (SOC2, ISO27001, NIST).

Success Criteria (First 90 Days)

• Own AWS cloud, and platform infrastructure operations.
• Establish platform SLAs, reliability baselines, and operational guardrails.
• Align on enterprise platform modernization roadmap, set the foundation, and deliver initial scope of architecture improvements.
• Implement DR strategy with clear RTO/RPO and testing plan.
• Stabilize and optimize AWS environments and reduce operational noise.
• Build a predictable delivery rhythm with AWS engineering team.
• Produce and execute a clear cloud & platform strategy aligned with Product, Platform, and Development.