Senior Cloud & Platform Leader — AI, DevOps & AWS

Berry Appleman & Leiden; Richardson (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Sick time

Unlimited vacation

401(k) with company match

Hybrid work

Job summary

BAL is seeking a senior leader to own cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, and AI initiatives. You will guide a team of engineers and define how BAL builds, deploys, and secures applications on AWS in a fast-paced, security-conscious environment.

As a global immigration law firm, BAL emphasizes governance, compliance, and collaboration across multiple cloud environments while you mentor staff and drive strategic initiatives that make a real impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or DevOps engineering.
• Hands-on AWS expertise with multi-account architecture.
• Production experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and container-based microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of cloud, DevOps, and platform engineers.
• Own the cloud and platform roadmap and communicate progress to senior leadership.
• Partner with application development, security, data, and business teams to align infrastructure with firm priorities.
• Manage vendor relationships, tooling budgets, and third-party reviews.
• Architect and operate a secure, multi-account AWS environment (EKS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, IAM).
• Design and manage cloud networking (VPCs, Transit Gateway, private connectivity).
• Enforce Infrastructure as Code and GitOps practices across environments.
• Drive reliability, observability, cost optimization, and incident response.
• Run production Kubernetes platforms and support event-driven architectures (Kafka).
• Build internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service tooling.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform/Terragrunt

Job description

BAL is seeking a senior leader to own cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, and AI initiatives. You will guide a team of engineers and define how BAL builds, deploys, and secures applications on AWS in a fast-paced, security-conscious environment.

As a global immigration law firm, BAL emphasizes governance, compliance, and collaboration across multiple cloud environments while you mentor staff and drive strategic initiatives that make a real impact.