Head of Cloud Engineering at Illinois Full time
Summary
Title: | Head of Cloud Engineering at Illinois Full time |
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ID: | 71806 |
Location: | Rosemont, IL |
Department: | Information Technology |
Description
For one of our long-term multiyear full time projects, we are looking for a Head of Cloud Engineer.
- Key Accountabilities:
- Drive Cloud Modernization Roadmap
- Provide strategic leadership and direction to steer the roadmap for modernization and migration of legacy capabilities to Public Cloud
- Drive the decision making around cloud migration approaches and trade-offs based on business case, technology strategy alignment, product strategy and operational efficiencies
- Govern Cloud Architecture Strategy
- Provide cloud architecture thought leadership on emerging cloud engineering patterns and practices including API led connectivity, Event Driven integration, modern data platform architectures.
- Steer the decisioning around buy-build-reuse in the architecture strategy evaluating capabilities of Cloud and SAAS offerings
- Manage and plan architecture strategies to balance BAU continuity in the interim state for complex cloud migration journies
- Bring thought leadership on data integration strategies with external providers and services
- Establish metrics and measurements to govern architecture quality, technical debt, alignment to industry best practices and frameworks such as Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Manage Business Resilience and Security in Cloud
- Decision making on critical security and compliance requirements in the cloud based on Info security and regulatory requirements
- Provide direction to ensure the future state architecture is secure by design, meets data governance and data privacy requirements
- Define the process and automation to ensure enterprise resilience in the cloud leveraging Site Reliability Engineering principles
- Establish Risk Management and Mitigation strategies to ensure continuity of critical business processes in the Cloud based on the SLOs/SLAs
- Drive Continuous Delivery Model for Cloud Capabilities
- Own the overall Cloud Platform Automation strategy to enable business to rapidly consume cloud services, improve developer productivity, optimize the cloud platform spend
- Drive adoption of ALM and DevOps strategy, enabling agile product development and continuous integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Testing best practices.
- Drive Operational Excellence in Cloud
- Own the Cloud Service Delivery and Service Management based on ITIL processes and frameworks
- Promote continuous monitoring and observability, everything-as-code mindset steering towards a touchless cloud operations paradigm
- Anticipate and plan for achieving scalability and performance objectives while optimizing the overall cloud spend
- Experience you have:
- Hands-on experience in transforming application portfolios to public cloud
- Demonstrated deep architecture expertise with applying modern design patterns that leverage Azure PAAS, FAAS and Data Platforms to application modernization scenarios
- Experience with architectural reviews, leveraging tools where possible to automate quality checks
- Executed complex multi-year cloud transformation journey at scale
- Methodologies for adopting agile dev/test engineering at scale using SAFE or other industry frameworks
- Has expertise in ITIL processes/practices/methods as well as designing and implementing IT services
- Experience in implementing DevSecOps capabilities especially with continuous integration, continuous delivery and environment automation (“infrastructure-as-a-code”, automated provisioning, deployments and runbook automation)
- Knowledge of tool sets across the cloud value chain e.g. Azure DevOps, Hashicorp Terraform, AppDynamics, ServiceNow, Azure Monitor, etc.
- Extensive experience transitioning complex end to end IT Service Management within multi vendor environment
- Has abilities to plan for organizational change management, especially the impact of cloud to roles, organization structure and change readiness
- Excellent communication and project management skills; adept at managing stakeholders at all level
- Strong coaching and mentoring skills
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