Senior Manager Cloud Architecture and Engineering

Overview

Join Reynolds Consumer Products and Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting dynamic fast‑paced and high‑performance organization. If you are looking to build a strong career we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Senior Manager - Cloud Architecture and Engineering to join our team located at our headquarters in Lake Forest IL.

Your Role :

As the Senior Manager - Cloud Architecture and Engineering you will lead the architecture design and delivery of all cloud platform solutions across the enterprise. The focus of the role is to assure secure, reliable and flexible services in support of RCP digital enterprise. The scope includes architecture and engineering activities in collaboration with operations team, security team and business stakeholders.

Reporting to the Director of Architecture and Engineering you will interface with internal teams and managed services partners to maximize the value of RCP’s investment in cloud technology.

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

• Own and evolve the enterprise cloud architecture by leading the strategic direction and technical oversight of the organization's cloud architecture ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability and long‑term sustainability.
• Design and implement resilient cloud solutions :
  Architect cloud environments that prioritize high availability, disaster recovery, performance and security for commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) applications and internal workloads.
• Drive modernization and optimization initiatives :
  Evaluate existing IaaS‑based solutions and lead efforts to transition toward PaaS and native cloud services to maximize operational efficiency and business value.
• Enable Fin Ops practices across cloud operations. Develop and implement financial governance strategies that promote cost transparency, accountability and optimization across cloud resources and services.
• Lead deployment of commercial software in the cloud :
  Oversee the integration, configuration and lifecycle management of COTS applications within cloud environments ensuring compliance, performance and supportability.
• Establish and maintain cloud governance frameworks. Implement robust technical and financial governance models to ensure consistent standards, policy adherence and optimal performance across the cloud landscape.
• Champion cloud‑native adoption and automation. Promote the use of cloud‑native tools, services and automation techniques to enhance agility, reduce manual effort and improve scalability across the technology ecosystem.

You will love it here if

• You put safety first always
• You listen, learn and evolve
• You are passionate about collaboration, teamwork and achieving shared goals
• You treat all people with respect, operate ethically and embrace inclusivity
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities

We need you to have :

• 8 years of work experience of leading hosting operations manufacturing environments preferred.
• Ability to assess and communicate hosting and cloud operations concepts, cost models and practices with both business and IT stakeholders.
• Proven experience in working in hybrid delivery models where services are delivered by internal teams partnering with managed services providers.
• Prior experience with AWS supporting hybrid environment including PaaS and IaaS.
• Thorough understanding of the following concepts, practices and technologies :
• Cloud Infrastructure Solutions
• Cloud Security and Identity Management
• Automation and Infrastructure as a code
• High availability solutions
• Disaster recovery
• Excellent problem‑solving skills; ability to lead the team through critical incident resolution and service restoration.
• Knowledge of and experience in building and running hosting operations teams including managed services partners.
• Strong people skills; collaborative ability to work with IT stakeholders inside and outside of the organization.
• Thorough understanding of both ITIL practices.
• Experience working with Waterfall and Agile project management frameworks.
• Experience…