Tech Delivery Manager (AWS Cloud & DevOps)

Korn Ferry Group; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry Group is seeking a Cloud & AWS Delivery leader to oversee platform capabilities on AWS and coordinate roadmap delivery with the product team. The role emphasizes secure, scalable, well-architected services and hands-on cloud delivery experience.

Responsibilities include maintaining delivery plans, managing risks, and acting as the primary delivery contact for architects, business owners and platform consumers, with strong emphasis on DevOps, IaC and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Certified in delivery methodology (SCRUM/KANBAN).
• Proven technical delivery experience with cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of AWS fundamentals and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing delivery of platform capabilities and services on AWS.
• Coordinating technical planning and roadmap delivery within the product team.
• Maintaining delivery plans, sprint goals and release schedules for a long-lived product team.
• Acting as main delivery contact point for stakeholders and translating technical info into decisions.
• Collaborating with security, networks and other teams as needed.

Skills

AWS delivery

DevOps practices

CI/CD

IaC (Terraform/CF)

Communication

Agile delivery

Cloud security basics

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes/EKS

Docker

Job description

Cloud & AWS Delivery

• Overseeing delivery of platform capabilities and services built on AWS, ensuring secure, scalable, and well-architected solutions.
• Coordinating technical planning and roadmap delivery within the product team.
• Ensuring cloud infrastructure, deployments, and environments are appropriately managed and maintained.

DevOps & Engineering Enablement

• Championing DevOps practices including CI/CD, observability, automation, infrastructure-as-code and shift-left testing.
• Supporting the team to mature the build-run-improve cycle, including release automation, incident response, monitoring and alerting.
• Improving and maintaining IaC standards (Terraform/CloudFormation), operational runbooks, and deployment pipelines.

Delivery & Governance

• Maintaining delivery plans, sprint goals and release schedules for a long-lived product team.
• Managing risks, issues, blockers and dependencies related to the platform.
• Ensuring platform changes meet agreed quality, security and operational controls.

Stakeholder & Cross-Team Engagement

• Acting as the main delivery contact point for team stakeholders including product leads, architects, business owners and other platform consumers.
• Translating technical information into clear delivery decisions and communicating progress effectively.
• Collaborating with adjacent teams (eg, security, networks, shared services) where cross-cutting decisions or approvals are required.
• Hands-on delivery experience in a cloud environment, ideally AWS, including working with teams building or running cloud-native services.
• Strong understanding of AWS fundamentals (IAM, VPC, EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFormation/Terraform).
• Demonstrated experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps etc.).
• Experience working within a single multi-disciplinary agile team delivering continuous increments of value.
• Ability to manage a product backlog, delivery plans, risks and dependencies.
• Strong communication skills, able to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer etc.).
• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, containerisation (Docker), or serverless patterns.
• Understanding of SRE concepts (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets) and operational excellence.
• Participation in platform engineering or DevOps communities of practice.

Qualifications

• Essential: certification in a delivery methodology (Scrum, Kanban) and proven technical delivery experience.
• Desirable: AWS and DevOps-related certifications