Director, Cloud Engineering
Salary: Open + Bonus
Location: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX
Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
Qualifications
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, with an emphasis on developing key talent and cultivating positive, high-performing cultures.
- An understanding of the value of inclusivity and diversity and a track record of putting these values into practice.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering with an understanding of large-scale computing solutions (Primarily AWS), including software design and development, database architectures, IP Networking, security, cloud operations, and performance tuning.
- Financial Services industry experience
- Experience with the following:
- Operating systems, including Linux.
- AWS services, with a strong focus on platform services and core services.
- Security, compliance, controls and their implementation within the cloud.
- Cloud networking principles, including Firewalls, VPCs, secure gateways and more.
- Containers, container management, and container orchestration, including Kubernetes and the different components of Kubernetes.
- Agile/Lean background for projects and project delivery.
- Automation, automation principles, and different aspects of pipelines and automation delivery.
Certifications
- AWS Solution Architect Associate (Required)
- AWS Solution Architect Professional (Preferred)
Responsibilities
In this role, you will focus on growing and retaining extraordinary engineers and managers; you will develop, mentor, and inspire diverse teams to continue strengthening and scaling our organization. You'll also be responsible for driving results in our cloud platform, collaborating with engineers and other leaders to build a reliable, scalable, secure technology stack using leading industry practices. You'll consistently communicate and deliver to commitments and increase the velocity of our teams by removing roadblocks.