Director of Cloud Operations
Company: BillGO
Location: Fort Collins
Posted on: June 20, 2022
Job Description:
For this role, we are looking for a motivated leader with a
passion for cloud native environments to join our team. The
Director of Cloud Operations is a unique position that requires a
broad technical background. Key factors for this position are not
only technical aptitude, but also being a problem solver,
continuous learner, self-starter and great collaborator. The ideal
candidate will have experience working in a fast-paced environment,
and will have a strong working knowledge of Azure environments,
IaaS and Paas, and deploying enterprise workloads to Azure. AREA OF
FOCUS All other duties as assigned, plus---
- Proactively lead and manage the CloudOps engineering team,
including work planning and delegation, process improvement, career
mentoring, leadership guidance and performance management.
- Interact with other departments and internal users as in the
Engineering department.
- Works with development teams to facilitate knowledge transfer,
and participates in technical design reviews and code reviews.
- Works with users to resolve technical issues and to provide
implementation support.
- Lead conversations around code, system, monitoring, alerting
maturity, scalability
- Lead a team of 5 - 15 cloud engineers in supporting critical
infrastructure for BillGO's platform
- Support architectural design and new cloud service
implementations utilizing industry best practices.
- Collaborate on overall solution designs and dependency
management across multiple engineering teams
- Support product and business teams with roadmap estimates and
capacity planning
- Uphold and champion high standards in the areas of security,
compliance, performance, and reliability
- Oversees operational engineering for activities which include
platform upgrades, monitoring, configuration, and troubleshooting.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams.
- 3+ years of experience with as a full time IT, DevOps or
software development teams
- 3+ years of experience designing and supporting AWS or Azure
environments, including IaaS and PaaS
- Knowledge of SOA, microservices, and/or RESTful design
patterns.
- Fluency with a subset of Java, REST APIs, JSON, GraphQL, MySQL,
.NET, NoSQL, Azure, AWS, GCP, UNIX, Linux
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience conceiving, implementing, executing robust test
plans
- Experience with Open Source tools.
- Attention to detail
- Achieves goals in creative and effective ways.
- Willingness to work in a highly collaborative environment where
the belief is that great ideas can come from anywhere. Candidates
must be able to embrace this culture, foster idea generation, and
work to cultivate the best ideas into an executable plan.
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related major with strong
academic record.
Recommended but not required:
- CI/CD tools and processes specifically Azure DevOps
- Infrastructure provisioning via Terraform
- .Net development experience
- Microsoft Azure Certification (MCSE: Cloud Platform and
Infrastructure or equivalent)
- AWS Certification
- Hands on experience using the Azure or AWS administration
portal
- Demonstrable experience deploying enterprise workloads to
Azure
- Proficiency with PowerShell, Python, or other scripting
languages
- Hands-on experience with one or more configuration management
systems such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
- Experience designing and supporting enterprise core services as
well as cloud deployments of these services
- Extensive knowledge of the Microsoft Enterprise software
products and services
- Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery planning experience, a
plus
Keywords: BillGO, Fort Collins , Director of Cloud Operations, Executive , Fort Collins, Colorado
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