Cloud Engineer

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain a strong network of technology and judicial contacts and leverage these partnerships to foster relationships with the courts, partners, and stakeholders to drive the adoption of cloud technology solutions.
• Manage delivery of portfolio of projects supporting branch-wide cloud projects; negotiate and prepare contracts by considering the financial conditions, resources, and contractual requirements.
• Ensure program conforms to the Judicial Council of California's Enterprise Technical Architecture standards and policies.
• Participate in ongoing management, technical, and project team meetings at the branch, Judicial Council, and court levels.
• Facilitate and coordinate issue identification and resolution between the Judicial Council, court, and vendors in support of Judicial Council of California-sponsored initiatives.
• Assist in the creation and assessment of request for proposals for vendor, software, and hardware selection.
• Administer and oversee contracts and procurement activities including the development of Non-competitive Bid documentation and technical specifications for solicitations.
• Serve as liaison and advisor to Judicial Council and court teams to align business and technical infrastructure requirements, provide design and integration resources to determine best ways of leveraging existing infrastructure where possible, and identify necessary infrastructure updates.
• Create plans providing guidance to projects in support of the cloud program; ensure adherence to master plans and schedules, develop solutions to program problems, and direct work of vendors and incumbents assigned to programs from various departments and agencies.
• Monitor ongoing work in support of these projects; act as advisor to program staff regarding projects, tasks, and operations. Prepare and present weekly and monthly status reports.

Mandatory Skills:

1. 10+ years' experience in a senior management position directing complex large-scale technology programs and projects.
2. 7+ years' experience providing leadership and expertise during planning, forecasting, implementation, and identification of resource requirements for enterprise level programs and projects.
3. Experience directing teams of architects, programmers, analysts and testers in a variety of small to large-scale projects.
4. 10+ years' experience developing strategic and tactical goals and objectives and long-range roadmaps for mission-critical systems, including cloud technologies, and the necessary standards and processes to support these goals and objectives.
5. Extensive knowledge of cloud vendors, platforms, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions
6. Understand private, public and managed cloud scenarios
7. Private as well as public-sector experience, preferably in state government.
8. Strong system analysis skills, experienced across the complete project lifecycle.
9. Familiarity with ITIL based service delivery methodologies.
10. Experience with cloud solutioning and migration projects.
11. Experience managing programs and projects in an environment involving multiple datacenters: in-house datacenter, colo datacenter, hosted datacenter, Software as a Service, and cloud datacenter.
12. Experience with migration of applications to the cloud.
13. Strong communications skills, having the ability to communicate well with all levels of staff -- both technical staff and executive management.
14. 7+ years of vendor management experience
15. Experience developing consensus with disparate groups, sometimes with competing agendas.
16. Experience developing enterprise technical policies for management consideration.

Desirable Skills:

1. Experience leading teams of technical experts and establishing a culture of innovation and excellence
2. Experience performing program cost and procurement management functions
3. Strong business acumen and the ability to determine ROI and TCO for both basic and enhanced functional requirements.
4. Experience managing high visibility programs or project portfolios with multimillion dollar budgets.