Lead Platform Engineer — Cloud Modernization (Hybrid)

Kelly Services; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

PTO

401(k) with company match

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development and cert.reim

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Kelly Services is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to shape and scale cloud infrastructure and platform services across our engineering teams in Boston. This hybrid role emphasizes automation, reliability, and developer productivity.

You will lead cloud-native capabilities, build automation for provisioning and deployments, and guide Kubernetes platform strategy while partnering with security, architecture, and operations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• 3+ years leading technical initiatives or engineering teams.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation and building CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• 70% Hands On
• Architect and enhance cloud-native platform capabilities
• Build automation for provisioning and deployments
• Lead Kubernetes platform strategy, governance, and reliability initiatives
• Improve developer experience with self-service tooling and platform enhancements
• Partner with security teams to implement scalable controls and compliance
• Establish reliability, observability, and incident response practices
• Mentor engineers across projects
• Drive infrastructure scalability, performance, and cost optimization
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide platform strategy

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Python / Bash / Go

Observability

Networking & security

Leadership

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Job description

Kelly Services is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to shape and scale cloud infrastructure and platform services across our engineering teams in Boston. This hybrid role emphasizes automation, reliability, and developer productivity.

You will lead cloud-native capabilities, build automation for provisioning and deployments, and guide Kubernetes platform strategy while partnering with security, architecture, and operations.