Technical Team Lead - Aws

The Technical Team Lead – Managed Services (Public Cloud) at AHEAD is a strategic technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-grade cloud solutions across multi-cloud environments, leading a team of cloud engineers, and driving operational excellence.

Location: India

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of cloud transformation, modernization, automation, and managed services engagements.
• Design and implement complex, mission-critical, enterprise-scale solutions across public cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and others.
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point and trusted advisor for clients, partners, and internal teams.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, identify growth opportunities, and support upselling and cross-selling initiatives.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to understand business and technical challenges and develop tailored cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering solutions.
• Develop and present solution architectures, technical strategies, roadmaps, and executive-level presentations.
• Create and maintain technical roadmaps, innovation plans, governance standards, and best practices.
• Lead technical discovery workshops, architecture reviews, whiteboarding sessions, and strategic planning discussions.
• Provide project estimation, resource planning, risk mitigation, and technical oversight.
• Mentor, coach, and develop engineers.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native architectures, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and application modernization.
• Promote collaboration across technical communities and contribute to internal standards and continuous improvement.
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance, operational excellence, and reliability standards.
• Remain current with emerging cloud technologies, industry trends, and best practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of overall IT experience, including 8+ years in Cloud, DevOps, Automation, and Platform Engineering.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and whiteboarding sessions.
• Strong consulting mindset with customer-facing leadership experience.
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS and/or Microsoft Azure cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing core cloud services.
• Deep experience leading Cloud Migration, Transformation, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Application Modernization.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms and deployment automation tools.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, containers, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Understanding of SDLC, Agile, DevSecOps, and continuous delivery.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to resolve critical incidents in large environments.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Employee wellness programs.
• Retirement and statutory benefits.
• Inclusive and people-first culture.