Cloud & Platform Engineer
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Rapid Solutions Pod Lead leading client engagements and engineering pods for AHEAD's cloud, platform engineering, and AI transformation solutions. Owning delivery, governance, recommendations, and offering development.
Responsibilities:
- Own every engagement end to end as Engagement Lead, from kickoff through executive readout
- Serve as the primary customer point of contact and single point of accountability for delivery
- Own scope and statement-of-work compliance, success criteria, change control, outcomes, and boundaries
- Run governance and cadence, including standups, status reporting, stakeholder and steering reviews, RAID management, and decision logs
- Act as escalation point for engagement risk and resolve issues affecting scope, timeline, or client relationships
- Drive quality control through peer reviews and readiness checks on client-facing deliverables
- Lead a 2–3 person pod across discovery, analysis, and executive readout
- Set quarterly and annual goals and coach pod members' growth
- Staff and manage utilization across sold and internal projects
- Maintain engagement hygiene, including risks, decisions, and artifact version control
- Drive technical discovery and analysis across multi-cloud, platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and application/data domains
- Produce prioritized recommendations with effort sizing and sequenced roadmaps
- Translate findings into executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes
- Implement AI-driven solutions to reduce toil and accelerate insight
- Capture and evolve delivery collateral and incorporate it into the Rapid Solutions playbook
- Define and refine Rapid Solutions offerings, playbooks, templates, and delivery standards
- Partner with practice leaders to align standards with AHEAD delivery frameworks and cross-practice initiatives
Requirements:
- 2+ years of relevant experience
- Engagement leadership experience
- Experience owning engagements end to end from kickoff through executive readout
- Experience managing scope, statements of work, change control, governance, cadence, RAID management, and decision logs
- Experience leading a 2–3 person pod
- Experience setting goals and providing structured coaching and feedback
- Experience staffing and managing utilization across projects
- Technical discovery and analysis across AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Knowledge of platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and application/data domains
- Ability to produce prioritized recommendations with effort sizing and sequenced roadmaps
- Ability to translate findings into executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes
- Experience implementing AI-driven solutions
- Experience developing questionnaires, scoring rubrics, readout templates, playbooks, and delivery standards
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents
- Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy
- Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance
- Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling
- Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being
- Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations
- Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership
- Cross department training and development
- Sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning

















