Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Cloud Platform Architecture & Engineering: Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions, with a focus on Microsoft Azure. Architect hybrid cloud environments that seamlessly integrate Azure public cloud with private cloud infrastructure and colocation data centers. Ensure seamless integration of workloads across Azure, GCP, OCI, and AWS where applicable.
- Hybrid Cloud Strategy & Support: Develop and maintain a hybrid cloud operating model, ensuring consistent security, network connectivity, workload orchestration, and monitoring across Azure and on-premises/colocation environments.
- Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Oversee the development and management of infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform, Azure DevOps) to support CI/CD pipelines and cloud provisioning.
- Cloud Operations & Governance: Establish and manage operational best practices, monitoring, performance tuning, cost optimization, and governance frameworks for cloud infrastructure and services.
- Security & Compliance: Collaborate with cybersecurity and compliance teams to enforce cloud security best practices and maintain compliance with regulatory and policy requirements.
- Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Evaluate emerging cloud technologies, trends, and tools to continuously improve infrastructure capabilities.
- Vendor & Partner Management: Lead relationships with cloud providers and third-party vendors.
- Team Leadership & Development: Mentor and develop a team of cloud engineers.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with development, security, network, and operations teams.
- Completes other projects and duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Work with Talent Acquisition to recruit, interview, select, hire, and employ a talented and diverse group of high-performing team members.
- Provide oversight and direction to team members in accordance with the organization's policies and procedures.
- Coach, mentor, and develop team members, including overseeing new team member onboarding and providing career development planning and growth opportunities.
- Empower team members to take ownership of their job and goals. Delegate responsibilities as needed and provide routine constructive feedback on performance.
- Create a culture that is consistent with the organization's focus on team member engagement, and that aligns with the organization's mission, vision, and values.
- Lead team members using a performance management and development-focused approach to assist in goal setting, two-way feedback, and performance development planning.
- Lead team members to meet the organization's expectations for productivity, quality, and goal accomplishment.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer science, MIS or equivalent
- Minimum 7-10 years of progressive experience in cloud computing, with deep expertise in designing, deploying, and operating solutions of Microsoft Azure. Exposure to GCP OCI, and AWS is a plus
- Travel Required
- Valid Government issued Driver's license