Hybrid Director of Cloud Engineering

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About the role

  • Cloud Engineering Leader transforming and leading high-performing teams delivering scalable cloud solutions at Black & Veatch. Driving enterprise cloud strategy and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute multi-year cloud strategy aligned with business and technology goals, and influence budget, investment priorities, and enterprise roadmap decisions
  • Mentor and grow the team with multiple cloud and SRE engineers/architects
  • Provide operational direction to internal staff and outsourcing partners
  • Accountability for cloud lifecycle management, including planning, design, automation, and optimization with enterprise-wide impact
  • Partner with senior leadership to influence priorities and drive impactful cloud solutions, and act as a key decision maker for cloud governance and standards
  • Translate business objectives into measurable outcomes in agility, cost efficiency, and innovation
  • Drive and mature cloud cost optimization practices, leading cloud financial governance, forecasting, consumption modeling and reporting
  • Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to guide/inform adoption strategies
  • Lead cloud steering committees and cross functional working groups to align initiatives and to define and enforce enterprise cloud governance, policies, and compliance standards
  • Design, implement, and maintain secure, resilient cloud infrastructure, leading the implementation and management of well-architected landing zones with appropriate guardrails
  • Integrate cloud services with CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration platforms and provide strategic input to Platform Engineering capabilities
  • Champion automation first practices and frameworks for provisioning, deployment, and monitoring
  • Lead cloud lifecycle planning, modernization, and migration efforts for large scale initiatives
  • Document architecture, processes, procedures, and project plans
  • Oversee cloud security, compliance, and BCDR planning in coordination with cybersecurity and DR teams
  • Build, mature, evolve modern cloud DevSecOps and SRE practices and capabilities
  • Implement identity management policies and access controls integrated with enterprise system, ensuring effective governance and risk reduction
  • Define and monitor KPIs for operations, cost, security, performance, and availability
  • Manage and evaluate service providers to ensure reliable cloud operations
  • Ensure adherence to regulatory and industry standards (e.g., NIST, CMMC)
  • Partner with cross functional teams across software engineering, cybersecurity, architecture, data, and IT operations to drive modernization and ensure efficient, effective delivery
  • Identify and mitigate regulatory, operational, and financial risks related to cloud adoption, communicating status to leadership
  • Clearly communicate technical solutions, risks, and options to stakeholders and leadership, with ability to influence decisions
  • Deliver training and guidance on cloud best practices and lead enterprise cloud enablement programs
  • Supervise team members, including hiring, and performance management
  • Allocate resources effectively and manage multiple concurrent projects

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
  • 12+ years of relevant experience, with 5+ years in a direct leadership role
  • Demonstrated ability to own and resolve complex problems that require extensive investigation and analysis
  • Demonstrated ability to influence others to accept practices and approaches, and ability to communicate and influence executive leadership
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • Effective written and verbal communication, with the ability to simplify complex systems
  • Demonstrated success in leading complex migration programs and cross-functional initiatives
  • Experience with ITIL processes and tools such as ServiceNow
  • Strong understanding of networking, security protocols, system administration and cloud compliance
  • Hands-on experience with cloud architecture, virtualization, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD, containerization, and orchestration tools (e.g. Github, Azure DevOps, AKS)
  • Advanced experience with hybrid and multi-cloud environments, preferably Azure and AWS
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., ELK, Azure Monitor, New Relic)

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • 401K match
  • Benefits that start day 1
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Paid vacation and holiday time
  • Sick time and dependent sick time
  • Adoption reimbursement
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vendor discounts
  • An employment referral program
  • AD&D insurance
  • Pre-taxed accounts
  • Voluntary legal plan
  • B&V Credit Union
  • Performance-based bonus program

Job title

Director of Cloud Engineering

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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