Director, Cloud Engineering

Essential Functions

Leadership & Strategy

Leads teams in the architecture and engineering of the company's transition to the public cloud.

Actively contributes toward the vision, strategy, organization and leadership of the cloud engineering function.

Defines and enforces cloud engineering best practices, standards, and architectural guidelines.

Works closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into cloud infrastructure designs.

Provides technical expertise, strategic direction and guidance to ensure the delivery of resilient, scalable, secure and efficient cloud-based solutions.

Provides effective leadership in developing highly engaged, high-performance cloud engineering teams, fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Cloud Infrastructure

Leads complex and high visibility end to end projects through design, budgeting, testing, implementation and performance monitoring.

Collaborates with architects and internal engineering customers to migrate microservices from first party infrastructure to AWS.

Manages service deployments and has a strong knowledge of CI/CD systems and Infrastructure as Code (IAC).

Represents the team for internal and external audits and compliance reviews.

Partners with security, network, and software delivery on continuous improvement of infrastructure platform.

Guides efforts applied to identification, enhancement and automation of applications and systems

Enhances and matures the Agile software development lifecycle within cloud engineering team by applying industry best practices & processes.

Keeps senior management informed of department progress, problems and solutions.

Able to manage and prioritize request from multiple stakeholders while also ensuring that SLAs are adhered to.

Enforces that standard test policies and procedures are followed

Participates in and support initiatives for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning.

Participates in the management of Vendor relationships and contract negotiations for Company's cloud computing platform.

Focuses on both internal and external customers to provide best-in-class service, with an emphasis on efficient resource management and audit controls.

Support the company's commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/ or experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.

• Minimum Ten (10) years or more of progressive direct and/or related experience in Engineering, Architecture, etc; with at least Five (5) or more years of experience with public cloud infrastructure.

• Proven track record in leading one or more engineering teams, building public cloud infrastructure is required; experience with AWS is highly preferred; experience with other cloud providers is a plus.

• Minimum 5 years on hands-on engineering management experience including Agile development best practices and experience both as a product owner and scrum master.

• Experience with comprehensive technology delivery that is secure and reliable including disaster recovery planning and operations, storage area network and redundant, highly available server and network architectures.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.