Hybrid Director of Cloud Engineering

at Black & Veatch

• Job title: Director of Cloud Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Cyber Security, ServiceNow, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cary, United States

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