Lead Cloud Engineer at LEN Lennar Corporation — Miami, FL

Lead - Cloud Operations Engineer

We are Lennar

Lennar is one of the nation’s leading homebuilders, dedicated to making an impact and creating an extraordinary experience for their Homeowners, Communities, and Associates by building quality homes and providing exceptional customer service, giving back to the communities in which we work and live in, and fostering a culture of opportunity and growth for our Associates throughout their career. Lennar has been recognized as a Fortune 500® company and consistently ranked among the top homebuilders in the United States.

Step into a role as a Cloud Operations – Lead Engineer, where you will balance hands-on engineering with technical leadership across our hybrid cloud estate comprised of AWS, Azure, and on-premises data centers. You will be the go-to resource the Cloud Operations team relies on to help drive best practices within operations, automation and self-healing, mature disaster recovery practices, and establish observability standards with well-defined SLAs and SLOs for our infrastructure and cloud workloads. You’ll also help lead cloud migration initiatives that modernize and consolidate our environments, paving the way toward engineering management roles.

Your Responsibilities on the Team

• Serve as the senior technical lead across the Cloud Operations portfolio of AWS & Azure. Taking delegated initiatives and driving them to completion.
• Lead day-to-day operations, optimization, and incident response across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Help plan and execute the migration of workloads from on-premises data centers and Azure into AWS as the primary cloud platform.
• Propose, design, and implement automation, self-healing, and auto-remediation to reduce manual toil and improve reliability.
• Architect and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, with version control and CI/CD delivered through GitHub, Terraform, and Spotify Backstage.
• Design, document, and test disaster recovery, backup, failover, and business-continuity strategies across cloud and data center environments.
• Set and uphold server administration standards for Linux and Windows, including server patching and lifecycle management.
• Oversee data center operations with a focus on storage, virtualization, and capacity management, supporting hybrid integrations with cloud platforms.
• Partner with security, platform, DevEx, and application teams to embed best practices in reliability, observability, governance, and cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers and grow the team’s technical depth across the cloud operations domains.
• Experience maintaining and improving Citrix and/or comparable DaaS solutions a plus.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in cloud operations, infrastructure, or systems engineering, including hands-on work in AWS and Azure.
• Broad, hands-on expertise across multiple cloud operations domains: AWS and Azure; Linux and Windows server administration; patching; virtualization and storage; experience with Database systems a plus (MSSQL/Postgres).
• Proven experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and version control/CI-CD workflows in GitHub.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing automation, self-healing, and disaster recovery in production environments.
• Experience leading or supporting large-scale cloud migrations (data center and multi-cloud into a primary cloud platform).
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for automation and integration.
• Strong communicator and mentor able to take delegated initiatives and lead them independently.
• Certifications (one or more preferred): AWS Solutions Architect – Professional; Microsoft Azure Administrator or Azure Solutions Architect Expert; HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.

Life at Lennar