AHEAD

AHEAD

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help...

IT Services
1K-5K
$43M raised

Description

  • Lead cloud transformation, modernization, automation, and managed services engagements from delivery through completion.
  • Design and implement enterprise-scale solutions across public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
  • Serve as the primary technical escalation point for clients, partners, and internal teams.
  • Build client relationships and support growth opportunities through solution innovation and technical leadership.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to assess business and technical needs and develop tailored cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering solutions.
  • Develop and present solution architectures, technical strategies, roadmaps, and executive-level presentations.
  • Lead discovery workshops, architecture reviews, whiteboarding sessions, and strategic planning discussions with customers.
  • Provide estimation, resource planning, risk mitigation, and technical oversight across the project lifecycle.
  • Mentor, coach, and develop engineers through guidance, career support, and knowledge sharing.
  • Drive adoption of cloud-native architecture, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and modernization practices.
  • Ensure security, compliance, operational excellence, reliability, and performance standards are met across engagements.
  • Lead triage, diagnosis, root cause analysis, and resolution of critical P1/P2 incidents, including customer-facing post-mortems.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of overall IT industry experience, including 8+ years in cloud, DevOps, automation, and platform engineering.
  • 5+ years of customer-facing experience.
  • 4+ years designing, securing, and deploying large-scale applications and solutions.
  • Strong expertise in AWS and/or Microsoft Azure across architecture, operations, governance, security, and cost optimization.
  • Hands-on experience with core cloud services including compute, storage, networking, databases, IAM, containers, and security.
  • Experience leading cloud migration, cloud transformation, platform engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, and application modernization initiatives.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, or equivalent.
  • Experience with CI/CD and deployment tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness, Azure DevOps, or similar.
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, microservices, and cloud-native application architectures.
  • Understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies, DevSecOps practices, and continuous delivery frameworks.
  • Experience resolving critical incidents in large-scale environments, including SLA-driven support and RCA.
  • Familiarity with ITIL-style problem management and blameless post-mortems.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions and whiteboarding sessions with customers.
  • Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills.
  • Experience with AI/ML and Generative AI concepts, with exposure to AWS services such as Bedrock, SageMaker, Rekognition, Comprehend, Textract, or Lex being an advantage.
  • Ability to support AI/ML workloads on cloud infrastructure, including GPU-enabled environments, is an added advantage.
  • Recognized subject matter expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Ability to work with outside vendors, contribute to pre-sales, and travel as required.
  • Preferred certifications include AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, AWS SysOps Administrator Associate, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Terraform Associate, CKA, AWS Machine Learning Specialty, and Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage, with the option to extend coverage to dependents.
  • Paid time off and company holidays, plus additional leave benefits as per policy.
  • Flexible work arrangements supporting work-life balance.
  • Learning and development opportunities for continuous growth and upskilling.
  • Employee wellness initiatives focused on physical and mental well-being.
  • Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations.
  • Inclusive, people-first culture with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership.
  • Access to internal training, certifications, and a multi-million-dollar technology lab.

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