Senior VP, Cloud Platform Engineering

Salary: $30,000 - 55,000 per year Requirements:

• We require a bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• We are looking for extensive leadership experience in cloud, platform, infrastructure, SRE, or production engineering within a regulated enterprise.
• We need deep expertise in a major public cloud platform, cloud networking, identity, security, containers, infrastructure as code, observability, and automation.
• We expect strong knowledge of multi-region resiliency, active-active architecture, disaster recovery, cloud edge technologies, private connectivity, and traffic management.
• We value demonstrated experience with managed identity, zero-trust controls, FinOps, large-scale migrations, and complex production change.
• We need executive communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to translate technical decisions into business, client, and risk outcomes.
• Preferred: cloud transformation experience in financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Preferred: experience with Akamai or comparable edge-security platforms, data center exits, hybrid-cloud modernization, and private connectivity.
• Preferred: relevant cloud, security, Kubernetes, architecture, SRE, or FinOps certifications.
• Preferred: experience leading senior engineers, vendors, budgets, and multi-year platform roadmaps.

• We will own the Cloud Nerve Center roadmap and turn modernization priorities into measurable engineering outcomes.
• We will lead traffic management, web application protection, private connectivity, managed identity, and zero-trust controls for WSP cloud applications.
• We will establish multi-region, active-active, recovery, observability, capacity, and incident-readiness standards for critical services.
• We will deliver reusable landing zones, infrastructure-as-code modules, migration playbooks, and operational-readiness standards that speed up data center exits.
• We will improve cost transparency and savings through autoscaling, rightsizing, allocation, forecasting, and cloud-efficiency standards.
• We will ensure cloud capabilities meet BNY cybersecurity, regulatory, audit, data-protection, and operational-control requirements.
• We will align senior stakeholders, mentor technical leaders, and promote accountability, automation, reuse, and continuous improvement.
• We will deliver secure cloud edge and traffic-management capabilities for WSP cloud applications.
• We will enable the four-nines resiliency target for TIAA-supported services through measurable architecture and operational controls.
• We will establish resilient private-line cloud connectivity for USAA.
• We will improve application security and resiliency through managed identity and service-to-service authentication patterns.
• We will reduce application cloud spend through autoscaling, rightsizing, demand management, and cloud-efficiency standards.
• We will strengthen trading platform resiliency through third-region, active-active, recovery, and failover capabilities.
• We will improve cloud edge continuity by implementing Akamai as an alternate content delivery network.

• AI
• Cloud
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Network
• Security
• Web

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hackajob is partnering with BNY to help identify exceptional professionals for this Senior Vice President opportunity leading the Wealth Services Platform Cloud Nerve Center. The role is based in Jersey City, NJ or New York City, NY and focuses on building the production environment, engineering patterns, and operational capabilities needed to move WSP applications to the cloud securely, efficiently, and at scale. We are seeking someone who can align application engineering, architecture, cyber, infrastructure, SRE, risk, finance, and external partners around secure, resilient, and cost-efficient outcomes. At BNY, our culture supports our company and our peoples growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the worlds investible assets. Every day, our teams use cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients and deliver transformative solutions that help redefine industries and support communities worldwide. We are recognized as a destination for innovators, where bold ideas and advanced technology meet exceptional talent, and we invite people to join us in powering the future of finance.

last updated 41 week of 2026