Director of Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering

Description:
Hybrid up to three days per week from home in either Owing Mills, MD or Baltimore, MD

Our client seeks a Director of Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering to lead a globally distributed team that designs, develops, and deploys cloud infrastructure and automation. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, performance management, and governance of cloud platforms. You will drive multi-cloud strategy with emphasis on AWS, define automation platforms and deployment patterns, promote best practices, and ensure sustainable, reliable, resilient, and cost-optimized infrastructure at scale.

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.

Salary: $200,000 - $190,000/ yr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture, development, and governance of evolving cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure is sustainable, reliable, resilient, expandable, and cost optimized.
• Define and maintain automation platforms, deployment patterns, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Own complex technical initiatives from conception through delivery and incident resolution.
• Guide cross-functional adoption of standard methodologies and represent the cloud community in forums.
• Monitor industry trends and assess emerging technologies including multi-cloud strategies.
• Align team objectives to the Global Technology strategy and drive continuous improvement.
• Apply IAM and security best practices within the SDLC.
• Build organizational networks and represent Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering in councils and groups.
• Mentor, coach, recruit, and manage performance for a distributed engineering team.

Experience Requirements:

• 10+ years in technical leadership with experience leading geographically distributed teams.
• Expertise integrating infrastructure components across on-premises and cloud service providers.
• Hands-on experience with cloud security, reliability, and integration best practices in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Fluency with Terraform and CloudFormation; experience with Ansible, Python, Java, or Groovy is beneficial.
• Extensive experience managing cloud infrastructures on AWS and Azure with exposure to Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience integrating SaaS and vendor solutions in cross-cloud environments.
• Proven design of HA and resilient architectures at scale with automated configuration and IaC.
• In-depth knowledge of modern monitoring and alerting for hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of asset management industry products and flows is a plus.
• Cloud certifications are preferred.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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