Manager, Cloud Engineering

*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote. We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role.

A prestigious company is looking for a Manager, Cloud Engineering. This manager will manage a team of cloud engineers and will need hands-on experience with Terraform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Kafka, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Reports to the Director of Platform Automation and Cloud Engineering.
• Design, configure, implement and manage a fully automated workflow for provisioning and maintaining a complex, highly available cloud environment using infrastructure as code.
• Develop and maintain a library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures for deploying services to the cloud.
• Manage DevOps development activities and complex development tasks that will involve working with tools such as Docker, Kafka and container management systems.
• Lead and participate in cloud computing environment build-outs, software installation, maintenance and support, including but not limited to, patches, fixes, end-of-life preparation, and upgrades.
• Ensure the reliability of the services your area of responsibility provide and manage to both specific and implied SLAs to help the organization achieve both internal and external quality standard excellence for the cloud platform.
• Assess and plan for capacity needs within the cloud platform and forecast accordingly.
• Implement and manage initiatives within your assigned area of responsibility with accountability for results and compliance with all controls and security requirements.
• Lead in the development of technology roadmaps and end-of-life technology plans.
• Manage and participate in the implementation of production changes during defined maintenance windows and support on call rotation.
• Implement and manage rotational support schedules for afterhours and weekend work for area of responsibility.
• Operate within budget; Establish and assure adherence to schedules, work plans, and performance requirements.
• Write and maintain documentation of relevant systems, procedures and processes.
• Manage a team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• 7+ years' experience in IT systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of cloud systems / virtualized servers.
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification or higher strongly desired.
• Relevant experience leading highly technical team members through adopting new technologies while also maintaining highly available, mission critical systems with a proven track record of success.
• Experience managing work tasks using Agile methodology/scrum desired.
• Expert working knowledge of infrastructure design and components, such as servers, operating systems, networks, and storage.
• Experience with architecting, implementing and maintaining highly available mission critical environments for 24x7 availability.
• Hands-on experience with: Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, Github, and configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
• Relevant experience with configuration and implementation of IaaS, Infrastructure as code, AWS, Azure, etc.
• Competent in all phases of application development and implementation, including SDLC; Hands-on experience scripting/development skills in Python, Ruby, Go, Java, etc. in a corporate environment strongly desired.