AWS CloudOps Manager

Salary: $150,000 - 150,000 per year

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or a related technical field, including several years of direct people leadership managing cloud or platform teams and supporting technical development.
• Practical understanding of AI tools, AIOps platforms, or LLM-assisted operational workflows, including applications in engineering operations.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as CloudWatch and Site24x7.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure teams responsible for AWS provisioning, scaling, networking, connectivity, automation, and reliability.
• Hands-on expertise across AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, EKS/ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch, and Route 53.
• Ability to lead complex cloud initiatives, prioritize technical work, remove blockers, and ensure accountability for results.
• Experience building reusable IaC modules, governance guardrails, and platform standards that support secure, efficient delivery.
• Experience owning cloud platform roadmaps and prioritization, with a focus on measurable outcomes for internal customers.
• Ability to collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, Architecture, Finance, Operations, and vendors on enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Experience applying FinOps and cloud governance practices to improve cost transparency, consumption discipline, risk management, and accountability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Preferred: deep expertise in public cloud platforms, especially AWS, and experience operating large-scale SaaS platforms in production.
• Preferred: cloud financial management experience, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization, as well as a record of leading cross-functional strategic initiatives.
• Preferred: knowledge of cloud security, compliance, governance, and risk management, including experience in regulated industries with AWS Artifact or AWS Audit Manager.
• Preferred: experience with CI/CD build and release automation using TeamCity, Octopus, and GitHub Actions, and with environment management.
• Preferred: cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect.
• Preferred: experience with AWS FinOps or cost optimization at scale.
• Preferred experience: AWS (7 years), Kubernetes (5 years), Terraform (5 years), GitHub Actions (2 years), AWS team leadership (1 year), and AWS FinOps (1 year).
• Preferred: AWS certification.
• Preferred: ability to commute reliably to Mississauga, Ontario, or plan to relocate before starting.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of six onshore and offshore cloud and platform engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Champion AI-driven observability, automated incident remediation (AIOps), and intelligent operations across multi-cloud environments to support proactive fault resolution and operational efficiency.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure availability, reliability, and performance, ensuring alignment with service-level agreements and objectives.
• Manage incident response, including on-call rotations, escalation paths, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement.
• Advance infrastructure automation and IaC adoption using Terraform and CloudFormation to reduce manual work.
• Lead cloud cost optimization through FinOps practices, including budgeting, forecasting, and rightsizing.
• Partner with Security and Compliance on cloud governance, access controls, and audit readiness.
• Own AWS security posture with Security, including least-privilege IAM design, GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config rules, and KMS key management.
• Define and track operational KPIs such as MTTR, MTTD, availability, and AWS spending efficiency.
• Lead disaster recovery and business continuity planning across AWS regions.
• Modernize CI/CD pipelines and drive developer experience initiatives to accelerate deployments and reduce friction for engineering teams.
• Oversee cloud database reliability and scaling strategies for PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DynamoDB, or MongoDB, including maintenance, security, and migration planning.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Lambda
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CloudWatch
• EC2
• GitHub
• IAM
• Support
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• MongoDB
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• SQL
• Security
• Teamcity
• Terraform
• DevOps
• Incident Management

More:

We are hiring an AWS CloudOps Manager in the software development industry to lead cloud operations and people management across multi-cloud environments. The position is hybrid, with two on-site days per month in Mississauga, Ontario, and offers a base salary of $150,000 plus a 10% annual bonus. Our benefits include casual dress, a company pension, extended health care, and paid time off. As part of our hiring process, we use AI-based systems to support initial applicant screening. Applicants are asked to provide their base salary expectation.

last updated 45 week of 2026