Cloud Engineering Manager

Title:Cloud Engineering Manager
Location: Remote (prefer Las Vegas, NV, but open to some other states, relocation assistance to Vegas available)
Type: 90-Day Contract to Hire
This position will play a leadership role in the implementation of applications to the cloud infrastructure. Collaboratively plan and implement cloud-based and hybrid solutions with a focus on networking, virtual servers, web applications, databases, storage, and security. Operates in a consultative fashion with Architecture and Operations.

Your role:

• Promote cloud adoption, technology expertise, and process optimization blueprints for enterprise initiatives to grow the companys digital footprint
• Complete ownership of Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS) deployment
• Be hands-on in high level work with the team and provide guidance
• Develop and lead a world-class team focused on best-in-class reliability engineering and applications operations methodologies
• Right size and optimize cloud infrastructure, while balancing performance and cost
• Foster and encourage a culture of clear and precise communication, continuous improvement, and employee engagement
• Contribute to IT strategy and roadmap as it pertains to cloud services
• Provide both strategic leadership for the organization, as well as hands-on tactical daily leadership
• Develop strong working partnerships built on responsiveness and mutual accountability, with leaders inside and outside of the organization
• Regularly evaluate cloud applications, designs, monitoring, performance, and security best practices to improve the overall operation and performance of the cloud platforms
• Work closely with internal and external business partners to gather requirements, design, and implement solutions, manage technical operations, and triage and resolve operational issues

What youve got:

• Bachelors degree in a technology science discipline or a comparable level of experience preferred
• 8 years in an IT leadership role in a large enterprise environment
• 5+ years building and managing platforms in the cloud (AWS/Azure)
• Strong experience in end-to-end DevOps SDLC (configuration mgmt, continuous integration, continuous delivery, release engineering, provisioning)
• Experience crafting and developing cloud and hybrid solutions, translating business requirements into scalable, flexible, and secure cloud architectures
• Solid experience of containers and container management platform (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, TravisCI, Gitlab CI, or equivalent
• Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools (Logz.io, Cloud Watch, Splunk, DynaTrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, etc.)
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as TerraForm, CloudFormation, or equivalent
• Experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to from on-prem to cloud
• Must have good communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to obtain any necessary certifications and/or multi-jurisdictional regulatory licensing required for IT staff.
• Other duties as assigned

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This is a remote position.