Senior Manager, Enterprise Cloud Database Platforms

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We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses – Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and River Source Insurance and Annuities.

Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Design, provision, and govern complex cloud infrastructure in AWS and Azure using infrastructure as code technologies (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation, and Azure Resource Manager), Dev Ops tools, and Git Ops techniques. Lead design and development of cloud services and provisioning processes to support consistent, standardized, secure, scalable, and fully automated deployment. Provide technical and thought leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, consulting on cloud native application design, validation of designs, and planning and execution of complex application migrations to the cloud environment.

• Lead design and implementation of cloud services that comply with the organization's security and technology standards. Act as product owner for cloud services owned by the Cloud Engineering team. Automate provisioning of cloud services using infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Cloud Formation Templates, Azure Resource Manager Templates) and Git Ops techniques. Document detailed service designs, usage, and troubleshooting processes for peers and consumers.
• Independently perform, or lead teams in, the design, configuration, integration, and upgrade of existing and future technologies in cloud computing and colo environments. Design, provision, and manage the cloud environment's structure, landing zone, governance capabilities and core services such as network, logging and monitoring, security and access management.
• Support application migration to, and development in, the cloud by consulting with application architects and software engineers to ensure viability of designs. Plan and executing complex cloud migrations that may include application refactoring to cloud-native design. Leverage knowledge of cloud services, telemetry, and log data to analyze and resolve complex technical issues in the cloud environment.
• Develop and maintain current knowledge of cloud providers' service offerings in several of the following domains: network, IAM, compute, storage and backup, big data and analytics, machine learning, batch processing, configuration management, and cloud governance. Effectively share this knowledge through mentoring, coaching, and contributing to the development of peers and junior team members.
• Review and analyze cloud marketplace, cloud providers' roadmaps, industry trends, and emerging technologies. Assess potential value to the business and recommend appropriate emerging technologies to leadership. Identify cost and performance optimization opportunities and partner with stakeholders to plan and execute configuration changes to capture savings and benefits.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (4-years).
• 5-7+ years of relevant work experience required.
• 5+ years engineering and integration experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
• Deep understanding of foundational technologies such as IAM, core IaaS services (compute, storage, networking).
• 2+ years' experience with infrastructure as code technologies such as Cloud Formation, Terraform, ARM templates
• Strong analytical and customer service abilities.
• High reasoning aptitude and ability to quickly understand complex operating environments.
• Ability to coach and mentor experienced engineering staff.
• Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational levels.
• Strong thought leadership abilities and a highly innovative problem solver.

• AWS Professional (Solutions Architect or Dev Ops) or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• 2+ years' experience with scripting and automation technologies and demonstrated ability to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration tasks.
• Experience using source code…