Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

About this role

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the AWS hosting environments that power equivant’s court SaaS products. You will lead a small team of cloud engineers responsible for the availability, scalability, and security of our hosted services, and for automating the deployment of new customer tenants and environments. You will work closely with R&D, Security, Compliance, and Technical Services teams to meet deployment, performance, availability, and scalability goals, and to support compliance with the AICPA Trust Services Criteria for SOC 2 and the CJIS Security Policy.

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of cloud engineers building and maintaining AWS hosting environments for equivant’s SaaS products; set technical direction, mentor team members, and prioritize team workload
• Design, implement, and optimize AWS infrastructure to meet deployment, availability, performance, scalability, and cost goals
• Automate the deployment of customer environments using infrastructure as code
• Manage core AWS services including compute, DB, storage, networking, IAM, and security
• Oversee security, asset inventory, and lifecycle management for cloud resources
• Own AWS Config and organizational guardrails (Service Control Policies, Control Tower where applicable) to enforce baseline security and compliance across the AWS organization
• Design and maintain cloud backup and disaster recovery capabilities to meet defined recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO); lead DR planning and testing
• Partner with R&D on architecture, performance, and troubleshooting to ensure the hosting environment evolves with the product and applications run well in a cloud-hosted environment
• Build CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for web servers and web applications, including establishing capability where it’s not yet in place, in partnership with R&D to reduce manual deployment and enabl...