Lead DevOps Engineer

Must be locals to Dallas, TXPosition: Lead DevOps EngineerWe are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive cloud infrastructure strategy, platform engineering, and large-scale migration programs across Azure and AWS environments. This role leads a team of senior engineers, sets technical direction for infrastructure automation, and partners with application teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and governed cloud platforms.Responsibilities:Technical Leadership & Team Management● Lead and mentor a team of senior and mid-level DevOps engineers across cloud migration and platform engineering workstreams.● Own the technical roadmap for infrastructure automation, CI/CD maturity, and platform engineering practices.● Conduct architecture and design reviews; set engineering standards, coding conventions, and IaC patterns.● Drive cross-functional collaboration with application, security, and product teams.● Serve as the escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and migration blockers.Cloud Migration (Azure & AWS)● Plan, architect, and oversee end-to-end cloud migrations across Azure and AWS environments.● Lead Tenant-to-Tenant migrations covering Azure AD, subscriptions, and workloads at enterprise scale.● Define migration playbooks for lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and re-architecture patterns.● Establish quality gates, rollback procedures, and post-migration stabilization frameworks.● Optimize and standardize multi-cloud environments for cost, performance, and resilience.Terraform & Infrastructure as Code● Architect and govern enterprise-wide Terraform module libraries and IaC standards.● Lead Terraform Enterprise (TFE) adoption, workspace governance, and platform migrations.● Drive consistency in state management, module versioning, and pipeline integration.● Review and approve IaC changes for security, compliance, and architectural alignment.Platform Engineering & Governance● Define platform engineering strategy: landing zones, multi-subscription/account architectures, and self-service provisioning.● Implement guardrails and governance models using Azure Policy and AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs).● Enforce security policies covering RBAC, IAM, and network controls.● Enable platform teams to build and consume self-service infrastructure capabilities.DevOps & CI/CD● Design and govern CI/CD pipeline standards for application and infrastructure delivery.● Champion GitOps principles for environment pipelines and deployment automation.● Establish monitoring, logging, and reliability practices across cloud workloads.● Identify and eliminate toil through automation and platform improvements.Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery● Coordinate with senior leadership, application owners, and migration program managers on delivery timelines and risks.● Produce and present architecture decisions, migration status updates, and platform roadmaps.● Partner with onshore teams and client stakeholders across global time zones.Preferred Skills:● Terraform Enterprise (TFE) administration and migration initiatives.● Multi-tenant architecture transformations at enterprise scale.● Cloud FinOps and cost optimization practices.● Experience with internal developer platforms such as Coder or Backstage.● Kubernetes platform engineering: EKS, AKS, namespace governance, and policy enforcement.● AWS or Azure professional-level certifications.