Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Location: Jersey City, NJ/ Charlotte NC/ Plano TX (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 months

Role Overview

This position is for a lead who will manage enterprise-scale End of Life (EOL) technology remediation efforts across internal compute environments. The primary focus is on migrating legacy workloads to a new hyperconverged internal cloud virtual hosting platform. The role involves the assessment, planning, execution tracking, and remediation of approximately 14,000 servers across distributed, grid-based, and legacy cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end EOL remediation lifecycle, including stakeholder coordination, capacity planning, and migration strategy alignment.
• Partner with platform and workload owners to identify, assess, and document the EOL server inventory.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive remediation plan and tracking mechanism for approximately 14,000 servers.
• Create and manage capacity plans to support large-scale workload migration to the hyperconverged internal cloud platform.
• Drive alignment with engineering, architecture, and product teams to ensure target-state platform adoption.
• Establish and report on KPIs and progress metrics, focusing on platform migration rate and timeline adherence.
• Identify risks, blockers, and dependencies, and drive issue resolution across organizational boundaries.
• Provide executive-level visibility through status reporting, dashboards, and escalation management.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering/management roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale remediation or migration programs.
• Understanding of server lifecycle management, EOL processes, and infrastructure environments.
• Ability to drive cross-organizational alignment across product, engineering, and operations teams.
• Experience building and managing capacity plans and execution tracking frameworks.
• Primary skills include Enterprise Technology Remediation, Capacity Planning, and Cross-Functional Leadership.
• Technical skills include DevOps, Kubernetes, and RedHat OpenShift.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) or private/internal cloud platforms.
• Background in financial services or other regulated enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with grid computing environments and distributed workload patterns.
• Advanced proficiency in data visualization/reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Executive communication skills, including status reporting to senior leadership.