Senior Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in Massachusetts
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer jobs in Massachusetts are among the most actively recruited in the country, concentrated in the life sciences, financial services, defense technology, and enterprise software sectors, with demand ranging from early-career cloud engineers through principal-level architects. The heaviest hiring is in Greater Boston, Cambridge, and Waltham, where companies like Raytheon Technologies, Fidelity Investments, and Liberty Mutual maintain large engineering organizations with ongoing cloud transformation work. The most in-demand specialties are Kubernetes orchestration, multi-cloud architecture across AWS and Azure, and platform reliability engineering. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
The Lead Director - Cloud and Platform Engineering is responsible for shaping and executing the multi-cloud platform engineering strategy for Health100 and PCW across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure. Drawing on a foundation of hands-on engineering experience, this leader sets the technical direction and multi-year roadmap for cloud platforms while building the organization, engineering practices, and operating model required to deliver at enterprise scale.
The role provides leadership across cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, and production readiness, ensuring strategy translates into engineered capabilities that are scalable, resilient, secure, observable, and cost effective. This leader will navigate complex technical and business trade-offs, set engineering priorities, and drive modernization while maintaining accountability for execution and measurable outcomes.
Success requires strong partnerships across Platform Engineering, DevOps/Operations, Production SRE, Network, Cybersecurity, Identity, Data, Enterprise Architecture, and Application Engineering. The leader will develop technical talent, establish clear ownership and engineering standards, and influence senior technology leaders on cloud strategy, architecture, investment, and modernization priorities.
Role Responsibilities:
Strategy, Roadmaps & Portfolio Delivery
- Own the multi-cloud platform engineering strategy and roadmap for Health100 and PCW across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
- Translate business priorities, application demand, resiliency requirements, and enterprise standards into sequenced engineering initiatives, balancing near-term delivery with platform modernization, technical debt reduction, and capability development.
- Establish measurable outcomes and provide executive-level visibility into roadmap progress, platform adoption, reliability, delivery predictability, automation, cost efficiency, risks, trade-offs, and investment requirements.
Cloud Architecture, Engineering & Implementation
- Lead the architecture, engineering, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise cloud platforms across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
- Drive engineering of cloud foundations, networking, identity, security, Kubernetes, data services, shared services, and observability, using reusable reference architectures and engineering patterns to accelerate application onboarding.
- Ensure architecture incorporates availability, multi-region resiliency, disaster recovery, scalability, performance, maintainability, security, and cost requirements from the outset.
- Lead technical design and engineering reviews through production readiness, determining where cloud-native services or enterprise technologies such as Palo Alto Networks, F5, and Infoblox best meet business and technical requirements.
Engineering Execution & Delivery Management
- Convert architecture and roadmap priorities into executable delivery plans and drive delivery across internal engineering teams, cloud providers, and strategic partners, actively managing dependencies, blockers, and technical risk.
- Ensure engineering produces deployable infrastructure, tested automation, documentation, support models, and measurable service outcomes, not architecture artifacts alone.
- Establish repeatable release and environment-promotion practices and use delivery metrics to identify schedule, capacity, and quality risks requiring corrective action.
Infrastructure as Code, Automation & Platform Enablement
- Establish an automation-first engineering model using Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, policy as code, CI/CD, reusable modules, and automated validation.
- Develop self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns that reduce manual provisioning, improve consistency, and accelerate application delivery.
- Partner with DevOps/Operations to establish deployment workflows, configuration standards, change controls, environment promotion, and effective operational handoffs.
Production SRE Partnership & Service Reliability
- Partner with Production SRE throughout architecture and engineering, not only after deployment, to ensure platform services are designed for reliable production operation.
- Establish production-readiness standards encompassing SLOs and SLIs, observability, capacity and performance, recovery, disaster recovery, runbooks, ownership, escalation, and support requirements.
- Use incidents, reliability trends, and operational feedback to drive permanent corrective actions and roadmap improvements.
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
- Partner across Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, Identity, Enterprise Architecture, Application Engineering, Data, DevOps/Operations, Production SRE, cloud providers, and strategic partners to deliver integrated platform capabilities.
- Advise senior leaders on cloud architecture, engineering priorities, modernization, delivery sequencing, and technology investments, leading decisions where cloud-provider capabilities, enterprise controls, and application requirements create competing priorities.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex engineering and delivery issues spanning platforms, providers, or organizational boundaries.
Governance, Security & Financial Management
- Embed security, compliance, identity, network segmentation, data protection, and policy requirements into reusable engineering patterns and governance that enables delivery without bypassing enterprise controls.
- Partner with FinOps and business stakeholders on cloud consumption forecasting, cost transparency, unit economics, optimization, and capacity planning.
- Maintain lifecycle strategies addressing platform upgrades, deprecation, technical debt, and vendor dependencies.
Leadership & Capability Development
- Build and lead a cloud platform engineering organization focused on architecture quality, engineering rigor, clear accountability, and dependable delivery while developing technical leaders across cloud platforms and shared capabilities.
- Establish engineering standards, design patterns, playbooks, documentation, and review mechanisms that improve consistency and accountability.
- Develop workforce, sourcing, and strategic partner approaches aligned with the Health100 and PCW roadmaps.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE or related disciplines.
- 5+ years of technology leadership, engineering management, architecture leadership or equivalent large-scale technical leadership.
- 7+ years of deep engineering experience in at least one major public cloud platform, with working knowledge across GCP, AWS and Azure.
- 7+ years of experience with cloud foundations and landing zones, including networking, DNS, identity, security, Kubernetes, compute, storage, databases, shared services and observability.
- 5+ years of experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation and reusable engineering patterns.
- 5+ years of experience partnering with dedicated DevOps/Operations and Production SRE teams to transition engineered services into reliable production operation.
- 5+ years of experience defining or applying SLOs, SLIs, production-readiness criteria, observability, capacity management, disaster recovery and operational support models.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading multi-cloud platform engineering or transformation programs across GCP, AWS and Azure.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional delivery involving internal teams, cloud providers and strategic partners.
- Demonstrated experience defining strategy and roadmaps and delivering enterprise cloud capabilities against them.
- Experience supporting healthcare, regulated or other business-critical enterprise environments.
- Experience establishing internal developer platforms, paved-road services or self-service infrastructure capabilities.
- Advanced experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and service mesh technologies.
- Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise networks, data centers, security platforms and shared services.
- Experience supporting AI/ML, GPU, data-intensive or high-performance workloads.
- Experience with FinOps, cloud consumption forecasting and cost optimization.
- Relevant certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or HashiCorp Terraform Associate/Professional.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience (High School Diploma/GED plus 4 years of related experience)
Health100 is America's trusted front door to health and care. The Health100 platform integrates any participating health plan, PBM, pharmacy (retail and specialty), provider, digital health point solution provider, and employer, and addresses the top health care challenges for the consumer.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/18/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
The Lead Director - Cloud and Platform Engineering is responsible for shaping and executing the multi-cloud platform engineering strategy for Health100 and PCW across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure. Drawing on a foundation of hands-on engineering experience, this leader sets the technical direction and multi-year roadmap for cloud platforms while building the organization, engineering practices, and operating model required to deliver at enterprise scale.
The role provides leadership across cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, and production readiness, ensuring strategy translates into engineered capabilities that are scalable, resilient, secure, observable, and cost effective. This leader will navigate complex technical and business trade-offs, set engineering priorities, and drive modernization while maintaining accountability for execution and measurable outcomes.
Success requires strong partnerships across Platform Engineering, DevOps/Operations, Production SRE, Network, Cybersecurity, Identity, Data, Enterprise Architecture, and Application Engineering. The leader will develop technical talent, establish clear ownership and engineering standards, and influence senior technology leaders on cloud strategy, architecture, investment, and modernization priorities.
Role Responsibilities:
Strategy, Roadmaps & Portfolio Delivery
- Own the multi-cloud platform engineering strategy and roadmap for Health100 and PCW across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
- Translate business priorities, application demand, resiliency requirements, and enterprise standards into sequenced engineering initiatives, balancing near-term delivery with platform modernization, technical debt reduction, and capability development.
- Establish measurable outcomes and provide executive-level visibility into roadmap progress, platform adoption, reliability, delivery predictability, automation, cost efficiency, risks, trade-offs, and investment requirements.
Cloud Architecture, Engineering & Implementation
- Lead the architecture, engineering, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise cloud platforms across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
- Drive engineering of cloud foundations, networking, identity, security, Kubernetes, data services, shared services, and observability, using reusable reference architectures and engineering patterns to accelerate application onboarding.
- Ensure architecture incorporates availability, multi-region resiliency, disaster recovery, scalability, performance, maintainability, security, and cost requirements from the outset.
- Lead technical design and engineering reviews through production readiness, determining where cloud-native services or enterprise technologies such as Palo Alto Networks, F5, and Infoblox best meet business and technical requirements.
Engineering Execution & Delivery Management
- Convert architecture and roadmap priorities into executable delivery plans and drive delivery across internal engineering teams, cloud providers, and strategic partners, actively managing dependencies, blockers, and technical risk.
- Ensure engineering produces deployable infrastructure, tested automation, documentation, support models, and measurable service outcomes, not architecture artifacts alone.
- Establish repeatable release and environment-promotion practices and use delivery metrics to identify schedule, capacity, and quality risks requiring corrective action.
Infrastructure as Code, Automation & Platform Enablement
- Establish an automation-first engineering model using Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, policy as code, CI/CD, reusable modules, and automated validation.
- Develop self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns that reduce manual provisioning, improve consistency, and accelerate application delivery.
- Partner with DevOps/Operations to establish deployment workflows, configuration standards, change controls, environment promotion, and effective operational handoffs.
Production SRE Partnership & Service Reliability
- Partner with Production SRE throughout architecture and engineering, not only after deployment, to ensure platform services are designed for reliable production operation.
- Establish production-readiness standards encompassing SLOs and SLIs, observability, capacity and performance, recovery, disaster recovery, runbooks, ownership, escalation, and support requirements.
- Use incidents, reliability trends, and operational feedback to drive permanent corrective actions and roadmap improvements.
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
- Partner across Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, Identity, Enterprise Architecture, Application Engineering, Data, DevOps/Operations, Production SRE, cloud providers, and strategic partners to deliver integrated platform capabilities.
- Advise senior leaders on cloud architecture, engineering priorities, modernization, delivery sequencing, and technology investments, leading decisions where cloud-provider capabilities, enterprise controls, and application requirements create competing priorities.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex engineering and delivery issues spanning platforms, providers, or organizational boundaries.
Governance, Security & Financial Management
- Embed security, compliance, identity, network segmentation, data protection, and policy requirements into reusable engineering patterns and governance that enables delivery without bypassing enterprise controls.
- Partner with FinOps and business stakeholders on cloud consumption forecasting, cost transparency, unit economics, optimization, and capacity planning.
- Maintain lifecycle strategies addressing platform upgrades, deprecation, technical debt, and vendor dependencies.
Leadership & Capability Development
- Build and lead a cloud platform engineering organization focused on architecture quality, engineering rigor, clear accountability, and dependable delivery while developing technical leaders across cloud platforms and shared capabilities.
- Establish engineering standards, design patterns, playbooks, documentation, and review mechanisms that improve consistency and accountability.
- Develop workforce, sourcing, and strategic partner approaches aligned with the Health100 and PCW roadmaps.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE or related disciplines.
- 5+ years of technology leadership, engineering management, architecture leadership or equivalent large-scale technical leadership.
- 7+ years of deep engineering experience in at least one major public cloud platform, with working knowledge across GCP, AWS and Azure.
- 7+ years of experience with cloud foundations and landing zones, including networking, DNS, identity, security, Kubernetes, compute, storage, databases, shared services and observability.
- 5+ years of experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation and reusable engineering patterns.
- 5+ years of experience partnering with dedicated DevOps/Operations and Production SRE teams to transition engineered services into reliable production operation.
- 5+ years of experience defining or applying SLOs, SLIs, production-readiness criteria, observability, capacity management, disaster recovery and operational support models.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading multi-cloud platform engineering or transformation programs across GCP, AWS and Azure.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional delivery involving internal teams, cloud providers and strategic partners.
- Demonstrated experience defining strategy and roadmaps and delivering enterprise cloud capabilities against them.
- Experience supporting healthcare, regulated or other business-critical enterprise environments.
- Experience establishing internal developer platforms, paved-road services or self-service infrastructure capabilities.
- Advanced experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and service mesh technologies.
- Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise networks, data centers, security platforms and shared services.
- Experience supporting AI/ML, GPU, data-intensive or high-performance workloads.
- Experience with FinOps, cloud consumption forecasting and cost optimization.
- Relevant certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or HashiCorp Terraform Associate/Professional.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience (High School Diploma/GED plus 4 years of related experience)
Health100 is America's trusted front door to health and care. The Health100 platform integrates any participating health plan, PBM, pharmacy (retail and specialty), provider, digital health point solution provider, and employer, and addresses the top health care challenges for the consumer.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/18/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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- Banking & Financial Services
What Massachusetts Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior cloud platform engineer jobs across Massachusetts.
- Five or more years of experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code tooling in production environments
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions
- Strong background in platform observability, including distributed tracing, logging, and alerting systems
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with application and security teams on platform architecture decisions
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field preferred by most employers
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer Jobs in Massachusetts: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior cloud platform engineer in Massachusetts?
Senior cloud platform engineer roles in Massachusetts do not require a state-issued license, but employers across Greater Boston and the Route 128 corridor consistently expect a foundation in computer science or a related technical discipline, hands-on experience with major cloud providers, and vendor certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Microsoft Azure Administrator. Most candidates move up from cloud or DevOps engineer roles at Massachusetts technology companies, defense contractors, or financial institutions before reaching senior-level positions.
How much do senior cloud platform engineers make in Massachusetts?
Senior cloud platform engineers in Massachusetts earn a median of about $165,210 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $102,810 for the lowest 10% to over $213,970 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior cloud platform engineers in Massachusetts?
Employers hiring senior cloud platform engineers in Massachusetts right now include State Street, Booz Allen Hamilton, and CVS Health, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Massachusetts's dense concentration of financial services firms, defense primes, and life sciences technology companies means demand holds steady across multiple industry verticals throughout the year.
Which Massachusetts cities have the most senior cloud platform engineer jobs?
The cities with the most senior cloud platform engineer openings in Massachusetts are Burlington, Boston, and Lexington. Greater Boston anchors the market because it hosts the headquarters and major engineering hubs of the state's largest financial services, biotech, and defense technology employers, while suburban corridors like Waltham and Burlington attract companies seeking proximity to Boston talent without downtown costs.
Are there remote senior cloud platform engineer jobs in Massachusetts?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 100% of senior cloud platform engineer openings tied to Massachusetts are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the nature of infrastructure and platform work that can largely be done without a fixed physical location. Roles focused on architecture design, automation, and policy are the most consistently remote, while positions involving on-premises data center integration or regulated financial systems tend to require at least some on-site presence.
How can I get hired as a senior cloud platform engineer in Massachusetts with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is starting as a junior cloud or DevOps engineer at one of Massachusetts's many mid-size software companies or managed service providers and building toward a senior role over two to three years. Large employers like Fidelity Investments and MathWorks run structured associate engineering programs that accept candidates with strong fundamentals but limited production experience. Earning an entry-level cloud certification and contributing to open-source infrastructure projects strengthens a portfolio considerably for Massachusetts hiring managers.
Where can I find and apply to senior cloud platform engineer jobs in Massachusetts?
You can find and apply to senior cloud platform engineer jobs in Massachusetts on Migrate Mate, which lists current Massachusetts openings updated regularly. Find roles that match your experience and target location, then apply directly to each employer through the listing.
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