Cloud Operations Readiness and Governance Lead

Cloud Operational Readiness & Governance Lead

Job Title

Cloud Operational Readiness & Governance Lead

Job Description

Job Title:

Cloud Operations Readiness & Governance Lead – (AWS Platform)

Your role:

• Define and govern operational readiness standards and onboarding criteria for cloud services entering the CloudOps platform
• Act as the operational gatekeeper, ensuring solutions are fully prepared for deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle support
• Drive Design Transfer Criteria (DTC) and Transition to Operations (TTO) processes for seamless service onboarding
• Ensure systems meet SLOs, SLAs, uptime commitments, and disaster recovery requirements (RTO/RPO)
• Validate readiness across automation, monitoring, observability, and operational documentation
• Collaborate with product engineering, architects, and CloudOps teams to close gaps in operational readiness
• Influence product roadmaps to embed cloud operational capabilities from design stage
• Establish governance practices including runbooks, playbooks, escalation paths, and service procedures
• Lead and support major incident and disaster recovery scenarios, ensuring service continuity and rapid recovery

You're the right fit if:

• Leadership & Experience: 10+ years in cloud operations, platform operations, or large-scale production environments, with hands-on AWS expertise
• Operational Readiness & Governance: Proven experience defining service onboarding frameworks, operational standards, DTC/TTO processes, and ensuring production readiness
• Cloud & DevOps Expertise: Strong knowledge of AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and observability tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• Reliability & Incident Management: Experience managing major incidents, disaster recovery (RTO/RPO), SLA/SLO compliance, and ensuring uptime commitments
• Cross-functional Influence: Ability to collaborate with and influence product engineering, architects, CloudOps teams, and leadership stakeholders
• Operational Excellence Mindset: Strong focus on automation, monitoring, lifecycle management, governance practices, and continuous platform improvement

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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About Philips
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.

Experience Level

Senior Level