Senior Manager, AWS Cloud Architecture

Work you'll do

• Define the Cloud Architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
• Be the go-to person for Cloud Architecture. Understand and leverage Virtual Machine and Serverless services on cloud platforms to build complex solutions.
• Manage, supervise, and review the work of your globally distributed team.
• Ensure all cloud solutions adhere to security and compliance controls.
• Participate in establishing an automated DevOps release management pipeline for application development and ongoing operations.
• Cultivate a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mindset.
• Ensure development teams have access to a full suite of DevOps ALM tools by leading the establishment of the right tooling and processes.
• Partner with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules.
• Troubleshoot automation issues and provide timely, practical solutions.
• Be a trusted advisor for DevOps initiatives, providing objective, practical, and relevant ideas, insights, and advice.
• Plan, organize, and control multiple responsibilities to achieve project objectives; guide projects to completion.
• Ensure deliverables are completed within target timeframes and are consistently of high quality.
• Manage and lead other cloud architects, and work with teams to continuously improve processes and tools.
• Develop and own Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure performance against expected business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in IT, with 7+ years of hands-on AWS architecture and operations.
• Deep experience with AWS services, including: Organizations, Service Control Policies, IAM/Identity Center, EC2, EKS (and Fargate), S3, VPCs, ALBs/NLBs, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, GuardDuty.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation; module design and state management experience.
• Proven experience operating and governing large, multi-account/multi-region AWS estates.
• Hands-on DevOps/CI-CD experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.) and container tooling (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
• Advanced proficiency in a programming language such as Python or C#.
• Knowledge of networking, load balancers, firewalls, and cloud security best practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; experience presenting to executives.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Ability to travel ~10%.

Preferred

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with cost allocation, billing ingestion, and enterprise billing models.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC2).
• Experience with observability platforms (Dynatrace) and SRE practices.
• Experience with GitOps, API development, and platform-as-a-product approaches.