Platform Engineer Lead - Cloud, SRE & AI-Driven Delivery

Nasdaq, Inc.; Atlanta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

6% 401(k) employer match

Employee stock purchase program 15%

Hybrid work model (in-office 3 days a‑

Paid time off

Job summary

Nasdaq, Inc. in Atlanta, GA seeks a Lead Engineer to shape cloud, platform, and reliability foundations powering Capital Access Platforms. The role drives technical strategy, operational maturity, and AI-enabled delivery practices at scale.

You will lead cross-functional teams, develop reference architectures, and establish SRE rigor across services, with a strong emphasis on Terraform, AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant hands-on experience in cloud, platform, infrastructure, software, or reliability engineering.
• Expert-level Terraform experience, including reusable module design, state architecture, CI/CD integration, policy as code, and enterprise governance.
• Deep expertise with AWS, Azure, or both, with strong experience in Kubernetes, containers, cloud networking, and cloud-native architecture.
• Strong site reliability engineering background, including observability, resilience design, incident management, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive cloud and platform engineering strategy for Capital Access Platforms, including reference architectures, reusable Terraform modules, automation frameworks, and standards for AWS and Azure infrastructure, networking, identity, containers, and security.
• Establish and lead site reliability engineering practices - including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, full-stack observability, incident response, resilience design, and operational excellence - to measurably improve reliability and reduce toil.
• Define and advance an AI-enabled development lifecycle (AI-DLC) across planning, coding, build, test, release, deployment, operations, and monitoring - embedding approved AI capabilities into platform services, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering workflows.
• Lead complex technical programs spanning multiple teams, products, and business units - translating business objectives into practical architectures, roadmaps, and execution plans.
• Mentor engineers and technical leaders, influencing decisions and elevating engineering capability across the organization without direct authority.

Skills

Cloud engineering leadership

Site reliability engineering

Cross-functional leadership

AI-enabled development practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Networking

Job description

Nasdaq, Inc. in Atlanta, GA seeks a Lead Engineer to shape cloud, platform, and reliability foundations powering Capital Access Platforms. The role drives technical strategy, operational maturity, and AI-enabled delivery practices at scale.

You will lead cross-functional teams, develop reference architectures, and establish SRE rigor across services, with a strong emphasis on Terraform, AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, and cloud-native design.