Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering

About the role

The organization operates in the global trade network sector, addressing challenges related to security and resilience in international commerce. It provides an AI-powered product network that enables governments and businesses to maintain secure and efficient trade flows, supporting a more resilient global economy. The SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER, CLOUD ENGINEERING, leads a team responsible for managing regulated and sovereign cloud environments, including compliance-constrained deployments such as FedRAMP and sovereign clusters. The role focuses on standardizing and accelerating the launch of accredited environments, enabling product teams to navigate regulatory requirements without added complexity. This position plays a critical role in ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable cloud infrastructure that supports government customers.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and operation of regulated and sovereign environments across AWS and Azure
• Lead standardization of environment builds into repeatable blueprints
• Ensure sound technical decisions through reviews and prototypes
• Perform hands-on engineering, focusing on operational tooling and new projects
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to embed secure-by-default patterns
• Maintain accreditation health with timely vulnerability remediation and access reviews
• Support infrastructure with high SLAs, progressive deployment strategies, and multi-region redundancy
• Represent the team in audits, assessments, and technical customer discussions
• Manage realistic planning and provide go-live dates for stakeholders
• Establish operational practices including runbooks, documentation, capacity planning, and incident response
• Manage environment costs and prioritize efficiency controls
• Translate regulatory constraints for product and commercial planning
• Build relationships across teams to negotiate dependencies and priorities
• Lead, coach, and develop engineers with full ownership of performance and career growth
• Manage a distributed, globally dispersed team
• Assess team structure, manage hiring processes, and collaborate with recruiting

Requirements

• Background in SRE or platform engineering leadership
• Experience managing engineers with full performance and hiring responsibilities
• 8+ years in building and operating cloud infrastructure, including end-to-end environment ownership
• Experience delivering solutions into US federal or similar highly regulated government environments
• Production experience with AWS and/or Azure
• Strong skills in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, etc.) and Kubernetes cluster management
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and technical leadership
• Experience designing tooling for air-gapped and compliance-heavy infrastructure
• Proven track record establishing operational practices without impeding delivery
• Experience leading distributed teams across time zones with strong communication
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Eligibility for US security clearance
• Experience with non-US national accreditation regimes
• Experience building compliance programs from inception
• Startup or high-growth technology company background

Pay

$240,000 - $280,000 annual base salary

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)