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About the Role

As the Principal of Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering, you will lead a globally distributed team responsible for designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based infrastructure and automation. You will be a hands-on technical leader, overseeing architecture, development, and governance of evolving Cloud platforms, ensuring they are sustainable, reliable, resilient, expandable, and optimized for costs, manageability, and operability. Your leadership will promote best practices, shape the technology landscape, and drive operational excellence, acting as an authority in your field and contributing to the Global Technology strategy.

Responsibilities

Address complex technical issues, oversee installations, and assess emerging technologies.
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for Cloud systems.
Take ownership of the firm’s most ambitious and complex technical initiatives.
Lead cross-functional efforts to enable teams to adopt standard methodologies for Cloud technology integration.
Serve as a subject matter expert representing the Cloud community in internal and cross-organizational forums.
Continuously monitor industry trends and identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies.
Act as a hands-on technologist resolving complex technical challenges and troubleshooting critical issues.
Align the team’s book of work to realize the Global Technology (GT) strategy.
Champion a culture of continuous improvement using technical and business acumen.
Apply knowledge of IAM and security systems to ensure SDLC integration best practices.
Build and maintain a network of peers in technology and business functions.
Represent Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering in firm-wide committees and forums.
Use influence and leadership to drive delivery across the global organization.
Apply expert knowledge of infrastructure components to inform decisions on system upgrades and replacements.
Demonstrate structured decision-making.
Mentor and coach team members, providing guidance and professional development.
Offer feedback and support to others with management responsibilities.
Oversee recruitment, development, and performance management of associates.

Requirements

10+ years of operating in a technical leadership capacity.
Proven track record of leading and managing geographically distributed teams.
Demonstrated expertise in infrastructure components and their integration across on-premises and cloud environments.
Hands-on current experience with Cloud security, reliability, and integration best practices in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Stay abreast of industry trends and technologies and know when/if/how to apply them.
Experience integrating SaaS and Vendor solutions with a cross-cloud environment.
Consider the operational aspects of a system, long-term supportability, maintenance, etc.
Apply technical skills and business knowledge to set standards for Global Technology.
Solid understanding of requirements of the modern developer community.
Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code, automated configuration for large scale infrastructure deployments, and infrastructure/software design for High Availability and Resilience at scale.
In-depth knowledge of modern monitoring and alerting solutions for complex systems spanning on-premises and cloud.

Skills

AWS
Azure
GCP
Terraform
CloudFormation
Ansible
Python
Java
Groovy
IAM
Security systems
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Automation
Monitoring
Alerting

Location

Globally distributed

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal
10+ years

Education Level

Cloud certifications