Director, Cloud Architecture & Operations (Hybrid/Remote – Columbia, SC)
The Director of Cloud Architecture & Operations is responsible for leading the development and execution of the technical strategy/roadmap to evaluate, plan, deploy, and adopt Cloud infrastructure and technology services. This role will work across technology and business leaders to understand current and identify future Cloud technology use cases and opportunities (positioning the Cloud as a technology enabler for the organization). The Director of Cloud Architecture and Operations is a strategic leadership position that will need to counterbalance technology modernization while ensuring the delivery of tangible business value to the Bank’s internal and external customer base. Responsibilities will range from development and oversight of cloud architecture best practices to ensuring the reliability and efficiency of cloud infrastructure and technology services (e.g. cloud data management services, AI, etc.).
What you’ll do
– Lead the development, adoption, and curation of the Bank’s infrastructure and cloud technology strategy and roadmap.
– Work with Enterprise Architecture to establish a well-architected framework for Bank evaluation, design, deployment, and operation of cloud infrastructure technology (compute, storage, network, and AI/data services in particular)
– In partnership with the CISO, identify, adopt, and operationalize a security framework for cloud infrastructure which would be used to benchmark cloud security posture and well-architected security design.
– Coordinate with Legal and Procurement teams on the adoption of Cloud Marketplace constructs such as Marketplace purchase transactions, enterprise contracts, enterprise discount programs, etc.
– Develop, execute, and curate a cloud-focused learning path for new and existing Bank technology staff to upskill and keep current their technical skill.
– Res ponsible for developing a strategy for leading the Bank’s migration from a physical self-managed data center to a best-of-breed cloud-based technology infrastructure environment leveraging AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud as needed and where applicable
– Coordinate with the DevOps teams to develop a strategy for infrastructure as Code (IaC) that coincides with the general CI/CD strategy for code integration (CI) and code deployment (CD)
– Lead the successful migration of the Bank’s technology infrastructure to the cloud using various forms of cloud delivery methodology as needed (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.)
– Architect, design, and deploy a landing zone using one of the major CSP providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) for purposes of building out a multi-environment technology landscape that leverages a well-architected segmentation of the accounts/environments (e.g. development, test, production, etc.)
– Complete a successful recovery of production systems and operational processes to the cloud.
What you’ll need
– A college degree and/or comparable years of relevant job experience are required.
– Prior experience with data center migration to the cloud, leading Cloud Architecture and/or Enterprise Architecture teams, experience with Technology Operations in a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and experience leading technology infrastructure modernization is a requirement for the position.
– Certifications (particularly in the areas of Architecture, Operations, and/or Security) with any of the big three (3) cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) are preferred but not required.
– Five (5) + years, of experience in cloud architecture and/or engineering/operations role
– Five (5) + years, of experience with at least one (1) or more of the major cloud service providers (CSPs) – Azure, AWS, Google Cloud (GCP)
– Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and toolchain systems such as Hashicorp Terraf orm, Vault (for secrets management), etc. Should include perspective and knowledge of how constructs such as Terraform and be used in conjunction with CSP native IaC capabilities (e.g AWS CloudFormation)
– Prior knowledge in leveraging the Cloud in a disaster recovery scenario from a physical data center and developing the runbook automation to support it
– Experience with networking to and within the cloud (both east-west and north-south)
– Strong security background and knowledge of existing cloud security frameworks such as NIST, CSA, etc.
