Sr. Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

Our partner company is a high-growth global enterprise (15,000 employees, 30 locations) in the midst of a large-scale digital and infrastructure transformation. Backed by strong executive sponsorship and significant investment, they are consolidating fragmented on-prem data centers, VMware estates, and multi-cloud environments into a modern, AWS-first cloud platform.

This is not a lift-and-shift initiative it’s a full-scale platform re-architecture focused on cloud-native design, Kubernetes orchestration, DevOps enablement, and infrastructure automation.

They are seeking a hands-on, engineering-first Cloud Platform Leader to drive this transformation owning everything from architecture and migration strategy to platform engineering, DevOps maturity, and long-term cloud optimization.

This Senior Manager will operate at the intersection of Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and Platform Engineering, partnering closely with application, SRE, and infrastructure teams to build a scalable, secure, and highly automated AWS ecosystem.

You’ll lead a small but high-impact team while remaining deeply technical setting standards, making architectural decisions, and driving execution.

This is a hybrid onsite role in Bolingbrook, IL (not remote).

What You’ll Own

• Lead the development, design and management of scalable Cloud architecture solutions driving Cloud migration & modernization
• Manage and mentor a team of cloud, server, and infrastructure engineers
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, DevOps, and business stakeholders
• Architect and lead an enterprise-wide transition to an AWS-first, cloud-native platform
• Design scalable, resilient architectures leveraging EKS (Kubernetes), VPC design, IAM, and multi-account strategies
• Establish reference architectures, golden paths, and reusable infrastructure patterns
• Develop cloud architecture strategies that align with business objectives
• Manage vendor relationships related to hardware, software, licensing, and support agreements.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and GitOps practices
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Lead multi-phase migration strategy: rehost, replatform, refactor
• Drive data center exit initiatives and workload rationalization
• Modernize legacy applications into cloud-native, containerized architectures
• Manage and reduce complexity across on-prem, VMware, Azure, and AWS environments
• Own interim hybrid architecture while aggressively migrating toward AWS
• Implement SRE principles, monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Ensure security best practices across environments (IAM, encryption, zero-trust principles)
• Align with NIST/CIS frameworks
• Establish cloud cost governance and optimization strategies
• Drive accountability for AWS spend, efficiency, and resource utilization

What You Bring

• 8 years in cloud engineering, infrastructure, or platform engineering
• 5 years leading technical teams in high-scale environments
• Deep, hands-on expertise with AWS (required) and cloud architecture
• Proven success leading enterprise-scale cloud migrations and modernization initiatives
• Experience building and scaling DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud environments and migration strategies
• Experience with observability, reliability engineering, and cloud security frameworks
• Ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in a transformation environment

MMD Services Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants are considered for all positions without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, physical/mental disability, medical condition, military/veteran status, genetic information, marital status, ethnicity, alienage or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.