Cloud Engineering Director

Company: THE BRUNSWICK GROUP
Location: Raritan
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

The Challenge: Our client, a Fortune 500 Company is seeking a Cloud Engineering Director will drive maturity of the overall cloud service, hosting strategy, reference architecture, and multi-year technology and investment roadmap. This role will actively engage with external industry specialists and forums to remain current on industry trends and technology roadmaps. Duties and Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience in architecting complex solutions using public cloud modern capabilities (AWS or Azure or GCP solution architecture certification is must) is required to drive strategic business deliverables
• Real experience of understanding of industry perspectives in terms of cloud adoption, challenges and differentiators is a must to drive enterprise level cloud adoption
• Hands-on engineering and technology background with ability to continue to learn and go deep into our product solutions with Agile and DevSecOps mentality.
• Drives multiple Communities of Practice, driving innovation, and best practices in advancing common business goals.
• Drive self-service cloud hosting patterns for application developer, mature Infrastructure as Code automation, and developer productivity
• Work to modernize our existing tech stacks and platforms (micros services, API only, Platform patterns)
• Assist with the tracking, monitoring and analysis of Cloud performance metrics
• Invest in growing talent. Guides, mentors and develops the team of engineers and architects to ensure that their current skill set keeps pace with the changes to the cloud computing landscape and the solutions available in the market.
• Using Agile methodology, effectively manages backlog and sprint execution schedule to accelerate business outcomes using DevSecOps and automate everything mantra. Leads Google SRE adoption in improving overall reliability of services and offerings.
• Focuses on adopting and contributing to Open Source and collaborates across multiple software engineering teams driving common standards, guidelines and frameworks.
• Ensures that complex operational issues get the engineering support in order to speed resolution and minimize impacts to the business.
• Responsible for the successful execution of annual cloud computing and hosting portfolio projects in excess of $5M in spend. Participates in the creation of the business cases which outline the need for investment. Essential Skills and Requirements:--
  
  • Minimum Degree: B.S. in Engineering (or equivalent Technical degree) is required
  • Minimum Years of Experience: 10+ years of direct work experience in hybrid infrastructure management and exposure to application development and enterprise architecture o 4+ years of proven experience working in Agile, CI/CD and DevOps model
  • Hands-on, deep technical understanding and experience in Public Cloud -AWS/Azure/GCP at enterprise level scale, inclusive of cloud native, serverless, container-Kubernetes, microservices architecture, RBAC, VPC, IAM and cloud security constructs
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills with experience presenting highly conceptual designs to executives, mid-level managers, and peers
  • Public Cloud industry certifications
  • Experience in TCO based financial planning and/or budgeting
  • Background in programming with open source solutions and languages
  • Ability to develop and present compelling business cases and budgets and be able gain consensus throughout the organization
  • Experience participating in internal or external audits

Keywords: THE BRUNSWICK GROUP, Davenport , Cloud Engineering Director, Executive , Raritan, Iowa