Sr. Director Cloud Operations

Job description:

• Lead and manage Cloud Operations DevOps and GRC activities for all applications and IT resources in US and Bermuda.
• Own and oversee Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) initiatives to ensure high availability performance and resilience of applications and infrastructure.
• Manage and support Disaster Recovery (DR) planning execution and testing to safeguard business continuity.
• Lead the Quality Assurance (QA) team to ensure high-quality standards for application development delivery and operational processes.
• Continuously monitor application and infrastructure health; implement proactive alerting tracking and remediation processes.
• Drive automation initiatives across Cloud and DevOps to improve efficiency reliability and scalability.
• Develop and implement operational efficiency practices including FinOps to optimize cloud spending and resource utilization.
• Improve and enforce Governance Risk and Compliance policies to meet regulatory requirements and internal standards.
• Develop and communicate the strategic vision roadmap and operational plans for Technology Operations.
• Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architecture IT Delivery and other key stakeholders to align technology strategy and execution.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement innovation and operational excellence within the team.

Required Qualifications:

• Extensive experience (10 years)in technology operations security SRE and quality assurance ideally within a large regulated enterprise environment preferably in the insurance industry.
• Proven leadership experience managing multi-disciplinary teams (Cloud Operations DevOps SRE QA GRC).
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms (Azure AWS) and cloud operations best practices.
• Deep understanding of DevOps tools and automation frameworks (e.g. Jenkins Terraform Ansible Kubernetes Docker).
• Hands-on experience with Site Reliability Engineering principles monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Datadog) and incident management.
• Experience leading Disaster Recovery planning and execution.
• Strong knowledge of Governance Risk and Compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC 2 ISO 27001 HIPAA).
• Solid understanding of QA methodologies and tools.
• Experience in financial operations (FinOps) and cloud cost management.
• Excellent strategic thinking planning and communication skills.
• Proven ability to develop and implement technology roadmaps and operational strategies.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across multiple teams and geographies.

Preferred attributes:

• Certifications such as Azure/AWS Certified Solutions Architect Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or ITIL.
• Experience working in regulated industries (financial services healthcare etc.).
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and agile delivery methodologies.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and multi-cloud environments.
• Strong project management and vendor management skills.

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Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20 countries is a holding company for insurance reinsurance specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

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Whats in it for you:

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work.

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees needs at all stages of life.

• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life disability and AD&D insurance.

• We also offer a 401(k) with employer match contributions an Employee Stock Purchase Plan PTO corporate holidays and floating holidays parental leave.

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