Director, IT Operations - Cloud

Location: REMOTE

Overview:

Director, IT Ops - Cloud- Remote, USA

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr. Director of Cloud Operations to lead and optimize our AWS infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of AWS, strong leadership abilities, and a track record of successfully managing large-scale cloud environments.

As the Director of Cloud Operations, you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and security of our AWS infrastructure, as well as managing a team of skilled professionals. This is a critical role that will contribute to the overall success and growth of our organization. As the Director of Cloud Operations, you will play a crucial role in shaping and optimizing our organization's AWS infrastructure. If you are a seasoned cloud professional with strong leadership abilities and a passion for driving operational excellence, we invite you to join our dynamic team and contribute to our continued success.

Essential Job Functions:

• Provide mentoring and career growth guidance to the team.
• Develop a re-skilling plan for the existing team as we migrate to cloud.
• Lead and manage the cloud operations team, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the team's success and professional development.
• Lead DBA’s, network engineers, systems administrators, and helpdesk personnel.
• Develop and execute a strategic vision for the organization's cloud operations, aligning it with business objectives and industry best practices.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of the organization's AWS infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Monitor and analyze AWS infrastructure performance, identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions to optimize resource utilization, cost efficiency, and operational effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans for the AWS environment, conducting regular testing and updating procedures as needed.
• Stay up to date with emerging cloud technologies, trends, and industry developments, making recommendations for adoption and innovation within the organization.
• Manage relationships with cloud service providers, vendors, and other third-party partners, ensuring effective collaboration and maximizing value from external resources.
• Nurture development teams adoption of increased autonomy, automation, and CI/CD through tooling, documentation and shared understanding of the ecosystem.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Experience with on-prem data center operations and technical migrations to cloud.
• Proven experience in a leadership role managing cloud operations, preferably as a director or similar position.
• In-depth understanding of AWS architecture, security, and networking principles, with hands-on experience in designing and implementing AWS solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in managing large-scale AWS environments, with a focus on availability, scalability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure automation and orchestration tools, infrastructure as code, monitoring/telemetry, logging, reporting/dashboarding, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Strong project management skills and the ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to lead security tooling and configuration updates needed at a company level
• Experience in the following areas: Sys admin in using OS platform (Linux/Unix); Firm grasp of networking fundamentals such as DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP ; Experience with relational database system (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, SOX ).

Preferred

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
• Advanced degree preferred

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary
• Full Benefits
• 401k with generous matching
• Flexible vacation policy

Invicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race (and traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, creed, religion, citizenship status, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression (including transgender status), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

Invicro does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters, third party recruiting agencies, outside recruiters or firms without an executed contract in place. We are not responsible for any fees related to resumes that are unsolicited or are received by Invicro. Such resumes will be deemed the sole property of Invicro and will be processed accordingly.

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