Cloud Operations Lead — AWS/Azure, Automation & Migrations

Lennar; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan with company-m/

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Vacation and leave

Job summary

Lennar in Miami seeks a Lead Cloud Operations Engineer to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership across AWS, Azure, and on‑premises data centers.

You will drive automation, disaster recovery, and observability, mentor the team, and guide cloud migrations while aligning with security and governance.

This role requires 8+ years of cloud experience, IaC with Terraform, and strong scripting skills (Python/PowerShell/Bash) in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud operations, infrastructure, or systems engineering in AWS and Azure.
• Hands-on expertise across Linux/Windows, patching, virtualization, and storage.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical lead across the Cloud Operations portfolio of AWS & Azure, taking delegated initiatives and driving them to completion.
• Lead day-to-day operations, optimization, and incident response across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Help plan and execute the migration of workloads from on-premises data centers and Azure into AWS as the primary cloud platform.
• Propose, design, and implement automation, self-healing, and auto-remediation to reduce manual toil and improve reliability.
• Architect and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, with version control and CI/CD delivered through GitHub, Terraform, and Spotify Backstage.
• Design, document, and test disaster recovery, backup, failover, and business-continuity strategies across cloud and data center environments.
• Set and uphold server administration standards for Linux and Windows, including server patching and lifecycle management.
• Oversee data center operations with a focus on storage, virtualization, and capacity management, supporting hybrid integrations with cloud platforms.
• Partner with security, platform, DevEx, and application teams to embed best practices in reliability, observability, governance, and cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers and grow the team’s technical depth across the cloud operations domains.
• Experience maintaining and improving Citrix and/or comparable DaaS solutions (a plus).

Skills

AWS

Azure

Linux admin

Windows admin

Patching

Virtualization

Storage

DB MSSQL/Postgres

Terraform

GitHub CI/CD

Python scripting

PowerShell

Bash

Automation

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

CI/CD

Spotify Backstage

Job description

Lennar in Miami seeks a Lead Cloud Operations Engineer to balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership across AWS, Azure, and on‑premises data centers.

You will drive automation, disaster recovery, and observability, mentor the team, and guide cloud migrations while aligning with security and governance.

This role requires 8+ years of cloud experience, IaC with Terraform, and strong scripting skills (Python/PowerShell/Bash) in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.