Platform Engineering & Reliability Lead (Terraform, AI)

Socket.dev; Sandy Springs (GA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase program

Equity grants

Generous PTO

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Nasdaq is seeking a Lead Engineer to shape the cloud, platform, and reliability foundation powering its Capital Access Platforms. You will drive technical strategy, implement reusable Terraform modules, and lead SRE practices across multiple teams in a hybrid Atlanta environment.

The role demands hands-on leadership, deep cloud experience (AWS/Azure), and a track record building enterprise-grade platforms with AI-enabled development lifecycles.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cloud, platform, or reliability engineering experience.
• Expert Terraform design and governance experience.
• Strong AWS/Azure with Kubernetes and cloud networking.
• SRE background with observability, incident management, and resilience.

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

Terraform

Site reliability engineering

AI-enabled delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Nasdaq is seeking a Lead Engineer to shape the cloud, platform, and reliability foundation powering its Capital Access Platforms. You will drive technical strategy, implement reusable Terraform modules, and lead SRE practices across multiple teams in a hybrid Atlanta environment.

The role demands hands-on leadership, deep cloud experience (AWS/Azure), and a track record building enterprise-grade platforms with AI-enabled development lifecycles.