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Job Location drjobs

Troy, AL - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Description

Responsibilities

  • As a Director of Cloud Engineering you will provide the direction support and transformational leadership to enable a team of managers and technical leaders to drive innovation inspire teams build scalable highavailability distributed computing systems for our industryleading Public Safety solutions. You are obsessed with creating highfunctioning highly engaged and motivated teams.
  • You will be a leader of leaders by providing mentorship guidance and professional development opportunities across your team and defining and executing our longterm architectural direction. You are expected to keep abreast of trends within the industry identifying those that will allow us to continue to lead our clients.
  • You will lead the design and development of highperformance scalable maintainable and faulttolerant enterprise SaaS/Cloud applications ensuring adherence to proven design principles with a strong focus on availability and uptime.
  • You will balance the shortterm and longterm product needs with both technical debt and areas of strategic investment.You will define KPIs goals and your teams vision as a foundation of the broader mission and drive your development teams to consistently improve cycle time quality metrics time to market and meeting objectives set by management and the industry.
  • You will set the example for crossfunctional leadership working across your team boundaries within engineering and outside of it to ensure the delivery of highly impactful products to our clients. You will collaborate with product sales and marketing teams to articulate the technical value proposition of our software products support business development efforts and foster a spirit of innovation and continuous improvement with a high sense of accountability.
  • You have exceptionally strong communication skills and can simplify tough technical concepts so that those with a nontechnical background outside of engineering (and outside of the company) can understand them. You are also working to create a positive public presence for us attending talks meetups etc. to ensure that we continue to develop an amazing roster of talented engineers.
  • You have a strong production operations mindset and have the willingness to make tough calls and if necessary take tough actions to further the business.You handle discipline and termination of employees following company policy.

Qualifications

  • 7 years managing software development teams.
  • BS or MS/MBA degree in Computer Science Information Systems Business and/or equivalent formal training or work experience
  • Experience managing mentoring and recruiting team leads and managers.
  • Experience leading development of complex software architectures and platforms in a cloudbased environment with high availability.
  • Strong track record of shipping scalable reliable clientfacing software.
  • Ability to work well and productively always projecting a positive outlook in a fastpaced deadlinedriven environment.
  • Ability to translate company vision and strategy into meaningful work for technical teams and to understand and plan what is needed from a technical architecture perspective to deliver against the vision.
  • Strong situational leadership instincts and abilities.
  • Ability to represent engineering priorities to nontechnical audiences including reduction of tech debt and investments needed to increase technical velocity.
  • Proactive and creative problemsolving skills and ability to evaluate options analyze complex problems and present possible solutions in a simple easily understood manner.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills including verbal and written communication teamwork and customer service.
  • Ability to ensure that technical decisions are made promptly and are aligned with the architectural vision for the platform.
  • Powerful problemsolving risk assessment and negotiation skills
  • Willing and able to dive deep into the details if necessary as well as be available off hours to ensure uptime goals as required.
  • Passion for our mission to improve the world through empowering our government clients.
  • Required to undergo and satisfactorily pass a fingerprint background check in accordance with CJIS requirements.


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Company Industry

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Cloud Services

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