Manager Cloud & Systems Engineering

Gentis Solutions is seeking a Manager Cloud & Systems Engineering to join our team. This direct-hire position is with one of our clients interested in full-time consultants. If you are qualified, make sure you apply.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant, hands-on cloud engineering experience with AWS
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical experience
• Proven experience in working with and supporting AWS infrastructure via IAC, including deep knowledge of automation scripts and tools (i.e., Terraform)
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines
• 5+ years experience leading delivery teams, team building, team management and providing leadership and guiding team to meet the expectations
• Experience with hybrid environments (public cloud, private cloud and on-prem) and leading teams spread across environments
• Solid understanding of Microsoft OS/Back Office, Linux, Networking and Storage technologies
• Background implementing HA and DR strategies in AWS
• Strong knowledge of Security, Identity and Compliance in AWS
• Proven project planning and management experience
• Good knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws
• Superior written and oral communication skills
• Excellent architecture and technical support documentation skills
• Strong interpersonal and consultative skills
• Ability to conduct research into emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products as needed
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language
• Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

Desirable Skills

• Experience with vSphere 6.x and Enterprise storage solutions a huge plus

Typical Duties

• Take an active role in building, mentoring and growing a high-performing team
• Provide leadership, and strategic thinking skills with the ability to proactively drive and deliver technical solutions that scale across various technical teams
• Lead enterprise efforts in cloud computing strategy definition and all dimensions of cloud architectures; collaborate across ETS teams to architect and implement secure, scalable and reliable cloud solutions
• Responsible for ensuring operational readiness for launching workloads into public, private, and hybrid cloud environments; assess and define any application integration requirements; implement infrastructure best practices in areas such as performance, scalability, security and availability
• Provide input to resource planning, cost estimations, budget development and cost control
• Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure components that will be used by software engineering teams
• Provide engineering expertise, direction, and assistance to cloud teams
• Work with other cloud teams strategies for deployment of new cloud technology implementations, monitoring and optimization of existing equipment
• Drive adoption of best practices
• Implement cloud governance and standards
• Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility
• Implement High Availability and Disaster Recovery strategies for AWS platform
• Implement effective monitoring, support systems & procedures to ensure system stability & scalability
• Improve infrastructure operations through better use of monitoring, cloud coding and scripting best practices
• Document the company's existing systems architecture and technology portfolio; make recommendations for improvements and/or alternatives
• Review new and existing systems design projects and procurement or outsourcing plans for compliance with standards and architectural plans
• Confer with end-users, clients, or senior management to define business requirements for complex systems and infrastructure development
• Develop and execute test plans to check infrastructure and systems technical performance
• Report on findings and make recommendations for improvement
• Develop and manage a systems capacity plan