Cloud Platform Engineering Lead — Azure & AWS Steward

DVT; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DVT is seeking an experienced Lead Cloud / Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform Engineering team. The role focuses on maturing our Azure and AWS estate, moving from reactive support to a proactive, structured approach, with hands-on technical leadership across two cloud platforms.

Working with Platform Engineers and the Engineering Manager, you will set maintenance routines, prioritise risks, and promote engineering standards while remaining hands-on in remediation, automation and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on cloud/platform engineering experience.
• Proven ability to move teams from reactive to proactive cloud management.
• Experience establishing maintenance, patching, upgrades and lifecycle practices.
• Strong Azure and AWS knowledge with Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD.
• Good understanding of cloud security, reliability and observability.
• Able to identify improvements proactively and collaborate to implement them.

Responsibilities

• Help establish a structured and proactive approach to managing Azure and AWS estate.
• Establish and improve routine maintenance, patching, upgrades and lifecycle management.
• Help ensure cloud and platform changes are appropriately planned and tested.
• Help structure and technically prioritise platform work based on risk and lifecycle.
• Establish and promote pragmatic cloud engineering standards and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate cloud management.
• Proactively identify technical risks and improvement opportunities.
• Support improvements across security, reliability, resilience and observability.
• Provide technical guidance and support to the Platform Engineering team.
• Remain hands-on, contributing to engineering, remediation and continuous improvement.

Skills

Cloud/platform engineering

Proactive cloud management

Hands-on leadership

Collaborative mindset

Security/reliability/observability

Terraform/IaC

Kubernetes/CI/CD

Azure & AWS expertise

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

DVT is seeking an experienced Lead Cloud / Platform Engineer to strengthen our Platform Engineering team. The role focuses on maturing our Azure and AWS estate, moving from reactive support to a proactive, structured approach, with hands-on technical leadership across two cloud platforms.

Working with Platform Engineers and the Engineering Manager, you will set maintenance routines, prioritise risks, and promote engineering standards while remaining hands-on in remediation, automation and