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Job Location drjobs

Chicago, IL - USA

Yearly Salary drjobs

$ 148600 - 218300

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

As the Director Cloud Operations & Infrastructure on the Echo Global Logistics team you will drive cloud strategy across the organization partnering with Architecture Engineering Product and business stakeholder teams to build support and maintain secure cost-optimized high-performing and resilient cloud architectures. You will also manage maintain and support Echos on-prem datacenters including all the compute storage networking and security aspects of ensuring service uptime resiliency and business continuity. You will lead a cross functional team of cloud system and network engineers providing hands-on leadership support and guidance. This role will also champion the mindset and operational standards required for cloud-native application supportelevating operational ownership across engineering while ensuring platform stability visibility and cost-efficiency.

Responsibilities:

  • Defines and drives the AWS cloud operating model in partnership with Engineeringensuring the cloud environment is a reliable secure observable and cost-conscious foundation for product teams to build upon
  • Owns the cloud operations platform experienceas a service consumed by product engineering teams and establishes guardrails observability frameworks and SLO alignment
  • Acts as the operational excellence champion who enables engineerings You Build It You Own It philosophy through shared accountability frameworks
  • Guides a cultural transformation from ticket-based support to shared accountability and enablement
  • Develops & enhances Terraform cloud modules in partnership with Architecture for enterprise adoption
  • Oversees the cloud budget & FinOps practice optimizing costs and achieving efficiency in resource utilization
  • Closely partners with Architecture and Engineering to support architectural cloud patterns designs and technologies. Builds self-service capabilities that engineering teams can leverage while maintaining appropriate governance and cost controls
  • Owns the operational maturity of the AWS platform ensuring end-to-end reliability observability cost controls and standardized guardrails to support Engineering in delivering resilient services
  • Establishes clear shared responsibility models between Cloud Operations and Engineering that outlinewhere engineering teams own their services end-to-end where centralized cloud operations provides platforms and capabilities & how observability reliability and incident management responsibilities are shared
  • Deploys objectives and strategies to continuously improve resiliency redundancy and security of cloud products and services through DevOps practices and site reliability engineering
  • Manages and maintains existing on-prem datacenter assets including but not limited to compute storage networking and security aspects in support of business goals and objectives
  • Leads the cultural shift and change management initiatives to transition from traditional data center support toward building & embracing cloud-native practices that enhance business value and return on investment

Position Requirements:

  • 10 years of experience with cloud architecture design including networking storage compute and security best practices
  • 10 years of experience working with a variety of cloud computing platforms (AWS Azure Private-Cloud Architecture) and their services
  • 10 years of experience utilizing cloud migration strategies like lift and shift re-platforming and re-factoring
  • 7 years experience building & leading cloud teams serving as a hands-on leader & mentor
  • Ability to establish OKRs and KPIs that align cloud operational excellence with business metrics and outcomes
  • Deep understanding of Infrastructure and Platform Automation technology products such as Terraform Puppet Ansible and Chef technologies
  • Ability to set a strategic vision for cloud transformations building roadmaps outlining strategic initiatives and driving adoption
  • Experience implementing IaaS PaaS and SaaS workloads in public private and hybrid cloud deployment models
  • Extensive experience working with cloud native hosting solutions such as Containers Docker Infrastructure as Code and technologies from AWS
  • Exposure to on-prem datacenter technologies surrounding compute storage networking security and operational aspects
  • Collaborative and highly adaptable working style; strong communication skills; polish and poise when presenting and experience working within a C-Suite environment

Certifications:

  • Certified as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate required
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional a plus

Education:

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems preferred or equivalent experience.
  • MBA or a graduate-level degree in a relevant field is a plus

Echo Global Logistics is a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation management services. As a third-party logistics provider we simplify transportation management for our clients and carriers handling crucial tasks so they can focus on what they do best. From coast to coast dock to dock and across all major transportation modes Echo connects businesses that need to ship their products with carriers who transport goods quickly securely and cost-effectively.

Work environment/Physical demands summary:

This job operates in an office environment and uses a computer telephone and other

office equipment as needed to perform duties. The noise level in the work environment is typical of

that of an office with an open seating floor plan. The employee may encounter frequent interruptions throughout the work day. The employee is regularly required to sit talk or hear.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin status as a qualified individual with a disability or Vietnam era or other protected veteran.

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Benefits

For more information about our benefit offerings please visit our careers page at per year

This role is eligible for a bonus that is based on a combination of personal and business performance.

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Employment Type

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