AWS Platform Engineering Manager

Old National Bank has been serving clients and communities since 1834. With over $70 billion in total assets, we are a regional powerhouse deeply rooted in the communities we serve. As a trusted partner, we thrive on helping our clients achieve their goals and dreams, and we are committed to social responsibility and investing in our communities through volunteering and charitable giving. 

We continually seek highly motivated and talented individuals as our people are critical to our success. In return, we offer competitive compensation with our salary and incentive program, in addition to medical, dental, and vision insurance.  401K, continuing education opportunities and an employee assistance program are also included in our benefit suite. Old National also offers a variety of Impact Network Groups led by team members who are passionate about driving engagement, creating awareness of diverse backgrounds and experiences, and building inclusion across the organization.  We offer a unique opportunity to join a growing, community and client-focused company that is firmly rooted in its core values.

The AWS Platform Engineering Manager is a hands-on technical leader responsible for the reliability, security, automation, and evolution of the organization’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform. This role leads a team of engineers who follow disciplined software development life cycle practices, use infrastructure as code, and build repeatable patterns that enable secure, scalable, and consistent cloud adoption across the enterprise.

The manager owns AWS platform standards, technical direction, reusable engineering patterns, and delivery practices. This role develops forward-looking roadmaps, drives automation through Terraform and pipeline-based deployment methods, and ensures cloud services are secure, resilient, cost-effective, compliant, and aligned with business priorities.

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is $100,400 - $203,000 per year plus bonus. The base salary indicated for this position reflects the compensation range applicable to all levels of the role across the United States. Actual salary offers within this range may vary based on a number of factors, including the specific responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s relevant skills and professional experience, educational qualifications, and geographic location.

Key Accountabilities

Key Accountability 1: Technical Leadership & Execution

• Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers while remaining deeply hands-on in solution design, architecture decisions, and complex troubleshooting.
• Serve as a technical authority for AWS platform services, infrastructure as code, cloud architecture patterns, automation practices, and secure by design principles.
• Own AWS platform standards and contribute directly to the design and implementation of resilient, secure, reusable, and scalable cloud solutions.

Key Accountability 2: Platform Operations & Reliability

• Oversee the administration, optimization, and ongoing operation of AWS environments supporting critical business services and product engineering teams.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of cloud-hosted workloads through proactive monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Balance operational stability with innovation, managing technical debt while enabling new capabilities. 

Key Accountability 3: Strategy, Roadmaps & Innovation

• Develop and maintain AWS platform roadmaps that align with organizational goals, application modernization needs, security requirements, and future technology demands.
• Identify, evaluate, and introduce AWS services and cloud-native capabilities that improve platform reliability, security posture, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable engineering initiatives and measurable outcomes. 

Key Accountability 4: Automation, Security & Governance

• Drive automation initiatives using Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, reusable modules, configuration standards, and repeatable deployment patterns that reduce manual effort and improve delivery consistency.
• Collaborate with security, compliance, and finance stakeholders to implement best practices for cloud security, governance, and cost management.
• Promote a culture of software engineering discipline, continuous improvement, operational excellence, security-by-design, and adherence to SDLC practices across the AWS platform engineering team. 

Key Competencies for Position

• Develops Talent - Advocates for talent development as an organizational imperative and develops people according to talent strategy needs cultivating a diverse succession “pipeline”. Continuously assesses talent across the bank to develop an understanding of capabilities and potential and leverages talent as a corporate resource to meet needs today and into the future. Cultivates an environment of trust and optimizes others' talents and capabilities across the organization, driving a culture of continuous coaching and feedback. Retains, attracts and recruits top diverse talent leveraging opportunistic hires to meet current and future people needs at Old National.
• Promotes Change - Explains the business need, impact, and anticipated benefits of the change while engaging stakeholders to gain buy-in. Shapes and transforms culture by building an organizational culture of change agility. Manages risk associated with the change through appropriate contingency planning. Promotes change where it is needed to stay relevant and successful while creating conditions for team members to creatively generate new ways to enhance Old National's ability to succeed.
• Strategy in Action - Develops, communicates, and aligns organization with a clear vision and strategy empowering team members to take action. Maintains a strong network of advisors and leverages resources to stay current on emerging trends and market factors that may influence ONB’s strategy. Envisions how Old National's responses to trends may impact our longer-term vision and strategy while formulating a clear strategy that will accelerate ONB towards its strategic goals. Challenges the status quo to develop new ways of thinking encouraging curiosity beyond the current state. Conveys opportunities to realize the organization’s purpose, strategy, and culture in a way that captures attention, arouses emotion and compels others to act despite obstacles.
• Compelling Communication - Conveys transparent messages logically, simply, succinctly and at the right pace while being in command of the message. Captivates audience through compelling language tailored to the audience’s expectations and communication style. Checks for understanding and presents messages in different ways to enhance receiver’s understanding. Listens and objectively considers others’ ideas and perspectives while encouraging others to do the same while addressing negative reactions to others’ ideas that jeopardize this open exchange.
• Makes Decisions & Solves Problems - Analyzes, contrasts, combines and compares data to define the most relevant organizational problems and opportunities and gain clarity on potential impact. Creates sound strategies by gathering information through listening, deep questions, challenging assumptions and collaborating with networks in and outside of Old National. Aligns efforts and resources around blue chips and formulates decisions on relevant factors (e.g., costs, benefits, buy-in, risks) with the greatest potential for positive impact. Sets strategic direction for short-and long-term goals while remaining agile to adjust plans to close current gaps, modifying priorities as circumstances change.
• Delights Clients - Cultivates an environment where team members passionately serve internal/external clients with excellence. Promotes a growth mindset culture by keeping current with development and trends in industry and sharing information to build knowledge base of organization and net promotor score. Understands data, metrics and/or financial information and how they tie to clients, business outcomes, organization and industry. Empowers a culture of accountability across the organization where all team members nurture client relationships by listening, prioritizing, and acting responsibly to meet client needs, mitigate risk and add shareholder value.
• Leads Inclusively - Advocates the value of diversity as a competitive advantage and initiates and champions inclusive recruiting and development processes that challenge the status quo, when necessary, to increase diversity in the workplace. Sets up outreach systems and processes that seek ideas, opinions, and insights from diverse sources and while optimizing effectiveness by aligning individuals’ unique talents, interests and abilities with the most relevant roles and responsibilities. Thinks with an inclusive lens promotes inclusion by actively leading DEI initiatives while encouraging all team members to engage in DEI experiences. Demonstrates self-awareness, admits mistakes and seeks feedback from all levels within Old National while acknowledging and challenging bias (conscious and unconscious) and exclusionary behavior.
• Personifies ONB Culture - Instills confidence in one’s actions and outcomes consistent with Old National's culture. Promotes the organization’s vision, strategy, and values while recognizing behavior that supports the vision and values. Conveys opportunities to realize the organization’s purpose, strategy, and culture in a way that captures attention, arouses emotion and compels others to take action despite obstacles. Inspires others to personally contribute to the organization’s success for the long term by investing time, heart, and expertise to help clients and communities thrive. 

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven hands-on experience managing AWS cloud environments at an enterprise scale, including platform operations, networking, security, automation, and governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop engineering teams while maintaining strong individual technical contributions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Expertise in AWS cloud architecture, Terraform, automation, CI/CD delivery practices, identity and access management, security, observability, and operational best practices.

Preferred

• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Security Specialty, or similar.
• Experience developing AWS platform governance models, Terraform module libraries, automation frameworks, SDLC-aligned delivery practices, or cloud operating models in complex environments.

Old National is proud to be an equal opportunity employer focused on fostering an inclusive workplace and committed to hiring a workforce comprised of diverse backgrounds, cultures and thinking styles. 

As such, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law. 

We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have an agreement signed by the Director of Talent Acquisition, SVP, to fill a specific position.

Our culture is firmly rooted in our core values.

We are optimistic. We are collaborative. We are inclusive. We are agile. We are ethical.

We are Old National Bank.  Join our team!