Cloud Governance & Infra Lead (AWS & Azure)

Bank of America; Town of Charlotte (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer Lead within the Cloud Governance Authority in the United States. The role focuses on designing, developing, and maturing cloud use cases across AWS and Azure, aligning with enterprise standards and governance review processes.

You will partner with engineers, architects, risk partners, and control practices to translate business requirements into technical definitions and playbooks, driving efficient cloud adoption and governance outcomes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, technology consulting, or solution design.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and cloud architecture patterns
• Experience documenting technical solutions, architectures, and operational processes for review by risk, governance, architecture, or security organizations
• Experience consulting with application or platform teams to define requirements and develop implementation approaches
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, identity, resiliency, and operational concepts
• Experience developing technical standards, reference architectures, blueprints, or implementation guidance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to influence outcomes across diverse stakeholder groups without direct authority

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Cloud Governance subject matter expert supporting development of Bank Managed External Public Cloud use cases across AWS and Azure
• Partner with application teams, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to define, document, and mature cloud use cases from initial concept through governance approval
• Consult with requesting teams to ensure use cases clearly articulate architecture, data flows, technology components, operational processes, and control considerations prior to formal review
• Identify gaps, ambiguities, and potential approval obstacles early in the lifecycle to reduce review cycles and rework
• Collaborate with control practices, GIS, architecture, compliance, risk, and cloud service teams to understand evolving requirements and incorporate them into use case guidance and design patterns
• Develop and maintain reusable templates, reference architectures, implementation guidance, and playbooks that promote consistent and efficient cloud adoption
• Evaluate proposed AWS and Azure services and capabilities for alignment with enterprise cloud governance requirements, standards, and approved patterns
• Support the development of standard use case patterns that accelerate cloud adoption and reduce complexity for technology teams
• Drive continuous improvement of the cloud governance process through automation, workflow optimization, metrics, and stakeholder feedback
• Provide technical consultation and guidance on cloud-native architecture patterns, infrastructure design considerations, and operational readiness requirements
• Confirms that application and business requirements have been translated into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks to guide development and integration of technology solutions
• Contributes to the creation/selection of functional and non-functional product evaluation requirements within and across domains
• Reviews and may develop software solutions to address manual and repeatable work or inefficient processes
• Reviews and guides the evaluation of reference models, blueprints, playbooks and the execution of on-site evaluations of third-party products being considered for firm adoption
• Mentors and assists Infrastructure resources on infrastructure service along with application integration validation methods and tools to ensure that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards
• Promotes an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Application Development

Production Support

Risk Management

Solution Design

Automation

Business Acumen

DevOps Practices

Solution Delivery Process

Stakeholder Management

Adaptability

Architecture

Innovative Thinking

Project Management

Technical Strategy Development

Job description

Bank of America is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer Lead within the Cloud Governance Authority in the United States. The role focuses on designing, developing, and maturing cloud use cases across AWS and Azure, aligning with enterprise standards and governance review processes.

You will partner with engineers, architects, risk partners, and control practices to translate business requirements into technical definitions and playbooks, driving efficient cloud adoption and governance outcomes.