Director of Cloud and DevOps

Company: The Intersect Group
Location: Duluth
Posted on: April 3, 2021

Job Description:

The Intersect Group is seeking a Director of Cloud and DevOps for our client in Ithaca, New York. The Director of Cloud and DevOpsis responsible for providing strategical and tactical technology leadership for the Infrastructure-as-Code, SRE and QAOps teams. This position will be leading efforts in design, implementing and maintain processes to ensure scalability, reliability, and resistance of the cloud platform as it continues to grow. Responsibilities

• Lead a geographically distributed team of Cloud Operation and DevOps engineers in a highly agile development environment, focused on efficient operations, best practices and continuous improvement of automation, monitoring, alerts and tools.
• Define and execute strategy for scalable cloud infrastructure and processes.
• Own and manage the stability, availability, and performance for the cloud platform
• Own end-to-end automation of cloud infrastructure
• Design, implement and maintain application analytics and dashboards to measure and track reliability.--
• Define, track and report on system availability as well on progress of reliability and stability initiatives.--
• Create and maintain performance monitoring, automated alerting, self-healing resiliency into our platform
• Collaborate with product development teams to empower them to move quickly in a predictable manner, while delivering quality releases with high system uptime and reliability.
• Assume an advisory role within change management process to ensure all changes adhere to defined policies and keep with SLAs.
• Continuously research and enhance security posture for our cloud platform in the highly audited environment. --Requirements
  • 10-12 years of experience in engineering, architecting and delivering technology solutions.
  • 7+ years of leading teams focused on building large scalable cloud platforms and site reliability engineering (AWS - preferred, Azure, Google Cloud)
  • Hands on experience designing and executing deployment and automation solutions on public clouds with high availability in mind, tending to large variety of the underlying technologies (.NET, Java, Angular, etc)
  • Deep expertise with cloud operations and change management processes
  • Experience with acquiring, moving, processing, and reposing PHI, PII, PCI and other sensitive data with the appropriate alerting, monitoring auditing to adhere to company policies.
  • Proven ability to simultaneously manage multiple products in production, pre-prod, quality, performance, and development environments with varying technologies and lifecycles
  • Strong experience with agile software development techniques, developer driven testing, and highly automated test environments
  • Experience with operating system scripting, programming languages, agile project management practices
  • Demonstrated capability to lead and partner across disciplines to achieve high-impact results
  • Solid track record of building, motivating, and managing highly effective operations and engineering teams
  • Customer-focused mindset in designing, creating, and operating technical and solutions
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills - able to understand and convey complex product requirements or technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to recruit and retain top industry talent
  • Experience managing mission critical production systems with strict SLAs around service availability and data product delivery.

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