Cloud Engineering Manager

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Full Time Regular Staff San Diego, CA, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

The Cloud Engineering Manager is a hands‑on technical leader who guides the design, optimization, and security of the organization’s cloud infrastructure while actively contributing to engineering delivery. The role mentors Cloud Engineers, leads architectural decisions in close collaboration with the Cloud Architect, and directly participates in building, automating, and troubleshooting cloud solutions to ensure scalable, secure, and high‑performing environments that support digital banking applications as well as other assigned cloud projects.

• Reports directly to the Director of Cloud & Data for coaching, performance appraisal work, guidance, direction, and feedback.
• Provides leadership, coaching, performance management, and technical direction to Cloud Engineers and the Cloud Architect.

This role works closely with the Cloud Architect and Cloud Engineers to ensure alignment across cloud infrastructure design, cost‑optimization strategies, security controls, and Dev Ops automation. Together, they drive scalable architecture, operational excellence, continuous improvement across cloud platforms and engineering workflows, and support broader cloud work units.

• Lead and implement the design, governance, and optimization of cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise initiatives.
• Govern and oversee cloud costs and optimizations.

• Owns the roadmap for CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops automation.
• Standardize deployment patterns, enforce release governance, and reduce deployment risk in partnership with development and product teams to accelerate release velocity.

• Define monitoring standards for infrastructure, application health, and end‑to‑end tracing.
• Govern alerting thresholds, dashboards, and SLA metrics.

• Ensure cloud security controls continue to meet banking regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Security to enforce Cloud Dev Sec Ops  and secure coding practices.

• Govern credential management best practices for service accounts and secrets.
• Ensure secure storage, rotation, and auditing of credentials.
• Lead cloud engineering participation in agile ceremonies and cross‑functional planning.
• Drive continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops pipelines, and operational processes.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on post‑security incident reviews, reliability engineering initiatives, and cross‑team corrective action planning.
• Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and engineering best practices across the organization.
• Foster a culture of innovation, reliability, and operational excellence.

• Hands‑on leader who works collaboratively with the cloud engineering team across all technical initiatives and cloud projects while effectively managing core leadership responsibilities.

Requires an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, plus 9 or more years of progressive cloud engineering experience, including leadership responsibility. In addition to core managerial competencies, the Cloud Engineering Manager should demonstrate equivalent hands‑on tooling experience as below:

• Strong ability to lead and mentor cloud engineering teams while staying deeply engaged in hands‑on architecture, troubleshooting, and implementation work, all while effectively managing core leadership responsibilities.
• Deep technical expertise…