Director of Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering
Listed on 2026-09-13
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer
Description
Hybrid up to three days per week from home in either Owing Mills, MD or Baltimore, MD.
Our client seeks a Director of Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering to lead a globally distributed team that designs, develops, and deploys cloud infrastructure and automation. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, performance management, and governance of cloud platforms. You will drive multi-cloud strategy with emphasis on AWS, define automation platforms and deployment patterns, promote best practices, and ensure sustainable, reliable, resilient, and cost-optimized infrastructure at scale.
Full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.
Salary: $200,000 - $190,000/ yr. w2.
Responsibilities- Lead architecture, development, and governance of evolving cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Ensure cloud infrastructure is sustainable, reliable, resilient, expandable, and cost optimized.
- Define and maintain automation platforms, deployment patterns, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Own complex technical initiatives from conception through delivery and incident resolution.
- Guide cross-functional adoption of standard methodologies and represent the cloud community in forums.
- Monitor industry trends and assess emerging technologies including multi-cloud strategies.
- Align team objectives to the Global Technology strategy and drive continuous improvement.
- Apply IAM and security best practices within the SDLC.
- Build organizational networks and represent Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering in councils and groups.
- Mentor, coach, recruit, and manage performance for a distributed engineering team.
- 10+ years in technical leadership with experience leading geographically distributed teams.
- Expertise integrating infrastructure components across on-premises and cloud service providers.
- Hands-on experience with cloud security, reliability, and integration best practices in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Fluency with Terraform and Cloud Formation; experience with Ansible, Python, Java, or Groovy is beneficial.
- Extensive experience managing cloud infrastructures on AWS and Azure with exposure to GCP.
- Experience integrating SaaS and vendor solutions in cross-cloud environments.
- Proven design of HA and resilient architectures at scale with automated configuration and IaC.
- In-depth knowledge of modern monitoring and alerting for hybrid environments.
- Knowledge of asset management industry products and flows is a plus.
- Cloud certifications are preferred.
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