Director, Cloud/Kubernetes Engineering

***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***

A prestigious company is looking for a Director, Cloud/Kubernetes Engineering. This director will be leading a team of 8 engineers, and they will be focused on AWS cloud, Kubernetes, containerization, and automation. This Director needs to be able to incorporate applications into the cloud/Kubernetes. This director needs to be technical and grew up very hands on technically.

Responsibilities:

• In this role, you’ll focus on growing and retaining extraordinary engineers and managers, and you will develop, mentor, and inspire diverse teams to continue strengthening and scaling our organization.
• You’ll also be responsible for driving results in our cloud platform, collaborating with engineers and other leaders to build a reliable, scalable, secure technology stack using leading industry practices.
• You’ll consistently communicate and deliver to commitments and increase the velocity of our teams by removing roadblocks.
• Manage a team

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and six years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree and three years of relevant experience
• AWS Solution Architect Associate/Professional Certification
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, with an emphasis on developing key talent and cultivating positive, high-performing cultures.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering with an understanding of large-scale computing solutions (Primarily AWS), including software design and development, database architectures, IP networking, security, cloud operations, and performance tuning.
• Masterful communication skills and the ability to convey ideas and information effectively across internal and external groups, at all levels of the organization.
• An ability to get into the details when necessary to support execution and remove roadblocks that are holding the team back, and the judgment to know when not to.
• Basic understanding of operating systems, including Linux.
• Deep understanding of AWS services, with a strong focus on platform services and core services.
• Functional understanding of security, compliance, and controls and their implementation within the cloud.
• Functional understanding of cloud networking principles, including firewalls, VPCs, secure gateways and more.
• Functional understanding of containers, container management, and container orchestration, including Kubernetes and the different components of Kubernetes.
• Basic understanding of good delivery practices and continual integration and improvement.
• Agile/Lean background for projects and project delivery.
• Strong understanding of automation, automation principles, and different aspects of pipelines and automation delivery.
• Advanced cloud strategic capability and delivery deep understanding.
• Advanced security segmentation and controls deep understanding.
• Advanced automation principles and modern cloud design.