Cloud Platform Engineering - Senior Technical Lead
Freddie Mac4 months ago
McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$161k - $241k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide senior technical leadership to a cloud platform team by establishing reusable patterns, reference architectures, automation, and implementation standards.
- Design self-service and self-healing platform capabilities that reduce manual intervention, ticket-driven support, operational delays, and recurring resiliency issues.
- Deliver AWS-native automation, serverless patterns, infrastructure as code, and reusable code artifacts.
- Advance AIOps, GenAI, and intelligent automation across cloud databases, shared platform services, observability, and developer enablement.
- Establish guardrails and operational patterns that improve reliability, scalability, security, compliance, and delivery speed.
- Defend architecture decisions, represent engineering in leadership forums, and contribute to roadmap planning, investment decisions, governance, and platform modernization strategy.
- Research, prototype, and independently deliver solutions while creating reusable assets that improve team maturity and execution consistency.
- Mentor engineers and elevate teams through design reviews, standards, and reusable assets.
Requirements
- 10+ years of related engineering, platform, or cloud technology experience.
- Deep AWS experience in cloud architecture, serverless services, scalable infrastructure, observability, and secure, resilient platform design.
- Hands-on proficiency with Terraform, CloudFormation/SAM, AWS CDK, Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Bash, and SQL.
- Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of DynamoDB, MongoDB/DocumentDB, Kafka/MSK, Kinesis, Amazon Q, and Bedrock, with the ability to integrate these technologies into secure and scalable platform solutions.
- Experience transitioning hosted, COTS, or vendor-managed capabilities toward AWS-native, serverless, event-driven, or cloud-native patterns.
- Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, Docker, security, compliance, governance, resiliency, data infrastructure, and hybrid or multi-cloud deployments.
- Ability to operate independently, make defensible architecture tradeoffs, influence technical stakeholders, communicate complex platform concepts, and apply a platform-as-product mindset.
- A bachelor's degree in a related field is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time, exempt position.
- Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package with competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs.
- Eligible to participate in the annual incentive program.
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About Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac is a government-sponsored enterprise that buys mortgages from lenders, securitizes them into mortgage-backed securities, and guarantees timely payments to investors, providing liquidity for U.S. housing. It operates across single-family and multifamily markets, earning guarantee fees and investment income. Founded in 1970 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, it remains under Federal Housing Finance Agency conservatorship, supporting affordable homeownership and rental housing.