AWS Platform Engineering – Assistant Vice President (AVP)

Evaluate and adopt emerging AI-assisted engineering capabilities to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.

Drive the adoption of Agentic AI solutions for platform operations, application onboarding, troubleshooting, documentation generation, and workflow automation.

Identify opportunities to leverage AI-driven observability, incident analysis, and operational automation across the software development lifecycle.

Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers while fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, continuous learning, and operational excellence.

Lead small project teams and coordinate the delivery of platform initiatives across globally distributed engineering organizations.

Collaborate closely with application, DevOps, security, networking, cloud, and platform engineering teams to streamline software delivery and improve operational efficiency.

Create and maintain technical documentation, knowledge articles, architecture patterns, and training materials while conducting knowledge-sharing sessions to improve engineering effectiveness and platform adoption.

Platform Mindset – Building scalable, reusable self-service platforms that empower application teams.

Customer Enablement – Passion for helping development teams succeed in the cloud.

Technical Leadership – Ability to influence architecture decisions and guide engineering teams.

Ownership & Accountability – Driving initiatives from concept through execution and support.

Continuous Improvement – Relentless focus on automation, efficiency, reliability, and developer experience.

Collaboration – Working effectively across global teams while building strong partnerships.

Innovation – Leveraging cloud-native technologies, observability, and AI-driven engineering practices to deliver business value.

AWS core services (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, Route 53, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, etc.)

CI/CD platforms and tools (Jenkins, Harness, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Ansible, or similar technologies)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and CloudFormation)

Application architecture and cloud-native design patterns

Observability platforms including monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, and operational analytics (Grafana, Opensearch)

AWS networking fundamentals including VPC design, routing, DNS, connectivity, load balancing, hybrid cloud integration, and network troubleshooting

Experience onboarding and supporting large-scale enterprise applications on AWS.

Experience migrating on-premises applications to public cloud platforms.

Experience integrating third-party vendor applications and SaaS solutions into enterprise cloud environments.

Experience implementing platform engineering, developer self-service, and internal developer platform practices.

AWS Certifications such as Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or Advanced Networking Specialty.

Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools, Agentic AI capabilities, and automation frameworks.

Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

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