The Director - Public Cloud Services - Cloud Infrastructure Network will design and define the engineering processes and best practices to enable public cloud development, manage and support an engineering team and develop junior engineers technically and professionally, andact as overall owner of cloud infrastructure in public cloud across the firm.This role is responsible for all infrastructure segments from hardware selection, operating systems and virtualization layers to cloud management tooling, monitoring, and orchestration. The ideal candidate has experience in professional software development, designing and creating highly available cloud systems, and has the ability to implement cloud strategy. Advanced industry knowledge is key, as well as knowledge in building an engineering organization. The role requires a talented technologist with experience engaging with application developers throughout the full development life-cycle – from inception and design to deployment, operation, and iterative development.
Responsibilities:
- Provide foundational infrastructure for public cloud (compute, storage, network)
- Deliver the tooling and capabilities needed to enable our cloud first strategy
- Provide developer-friendly cloud onboarding, account creation and management for supported cloud providers
- Provide o11y products like ELK, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus, etc. to engineering teams for centralized logging, APM tooling, monitoring and alerting
- Ensure compliance to regulations and policy by implementing accurate requirements traceability
- Provide cloud network services to enable a fast and resilient hybrid cloud with built in security capabilities
- Develop, cascade and enforce engineering best practices using modern SDLC that enables CI/CD and favors automation, auditability, automated testing, infrastructure and policy as code
- Provide technical leadership in the design of highly complex cloud systems
- Develop and advocate for new cloud native solutions to undefined system needs, where no solution is available within the technical community
- Drive client satisfaction by identifying and developing process improvement and automation initiatives while ensuring compliance of solutions to operations roadmap
- Hands on experience developing and engineering software and consumer facing applications
- Recent experience leading or building an engineering team within an Agile environment
- Proven experience in cloud strategy to include scope, purpose, business case/value, financial analysis, integration with other key programs
- Hands-on experience in building distributed / service oriented / microservice-style and cloud based architectures
- Strong experience developing modern cloud architectures, working with container platforms, with a special focus on scalability, security and resilience
- Experience with modern SDLC tools, branching strategies, and ability to develop and enforce CI/CD practices
- Strong interpersonal skills to interact with new / existing talent
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Ability to provide orientation and training to enable individuals to understand and potentially perform roles
- Experience with modern tools such as Atlassian (Jira, Confluence)
- Expertise in multiple version control systems (Git, GitHub, Subversion) and Cloud Foundry development
- Experience with configuration management systems
- Ability to develop custom tool integrations
- Ability to write consistent and published APIs
- Experience with software delivery life cycle (development, configuration, testing, deployment), following Agile methodology
- Strong knowledge of service management lifecycle from development to retirement
