Cloud Platform Lead — AWS, Kubernetes & AI

BAL; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Disability & life insurance

Unlimited vacation

401(k) with company match

Job summary

BAL is a leading immigration law firm seeking a technical leader to own cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps and AI initiatives. You will guide a team of engineers, balancing delivery speed with strong security, compliance, and governance on AWS.

Responsibilities include owning the cloud roadmap, managing budgets and vendor relations, and building internal developer platforms and CI/CD tooling to improve productivity. A focus on regulated environments is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure, cloud or DevOps engineering.
• 4+ years managing technical teams.
• Deep hands-on AWS and multi-account architecture experience.
• Production Kubernetes and microservices experience.
• Experience with Kafka or similar streaming platforms.
• Strong networking, Terraform/Terragrunt and GitOps skills.
• Hands-on AI agents or LLM-based solutions experience.
• Regulated/compliance environment experience.
• Excellent executive-level communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering teams.
• Own cloud and platform roadmap; report progress and trade-offs to leadership.
• Collaborate with development, security, data and business teams to align infra with priorities.
• Manage vendor relationships, tooling budgets, and third-party reviews.
• Operate secure, multi-account AWS environments and drive reliability and cost optimization.
• Run production Kubernetes platforms for microservices and support event-driven streams.
• Lead AI agent and LLM initiatives with guardrails and governance.
• Support DevOps for Salesforce and other business platforms with AWS services.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy & roadmap

Communication

Mentoring

Budget & vendor mgmt

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform/Terragrunt

GitOps / CI-CD

Kafka / streaming

Bedrock / AI tooling

Salesforce DevOps (Gearset)

Job description

BAL is a leading immigration law firm seeking a technical leader to own cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps and AI initiatives. You will guide a team of engineers, balancing delivery speed with strong security, compliance, and governance on AWS.

Responsibilities include owning the cloud roadmap, managing budgets and vendor relations, and building internal developer platforms and CI/CD tooling to improve productivity. A focus on regulated environments is essential.