Cloud SME AWS Architect

Cloud Center Of Excellence Leader

Oversee the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and facilitate communities of practice throughout Equinix

Provide technical leadership, best practices, research and support, mentoring, and coaching for all staff

Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation leveraging a matrixed organization

Help set and manage the global vision and strategy for cloud architecture, security, development, site reliability, and operations

Proactively manage team demand/capacity in consultation with PMO, IT management, Product management, Enterprise Architecture, and rest of leadership team

Provide cloud management services such as strategy, approaches, best practices, and procedures across the organization

Champion the Infrastructure as Code transition

Collaborate with stakeholders across Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Finance, and engineering teams, among others, to develop the global cloud strategy

Empower product teams to reliably develop for the cloud at a fast pace

Build a cloud team of experts to evangelize for a highly available, reliable, and secure cloud platform

Guide cloud investment decisions to innovate for value

Advise on cloud KPIs, metrics, and SLAs to measure cost, performance, and support baselines and track against standards and business requirements

Operationalize consistent cloud migration procedures

Support cloud security and compliance governance

Manage knowledgebase for cloud best practices, standards, training material, etc.

Maintain tool kit / library of standard tools

Liaise with external vendors to accomplish cloud design, development, and operations goals

Continuously develop and improve services offered by the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)

Identify opportunities for cloud efficiency enhancements across the organization

The high global exposure and fast pace in this position requires an executive with proven technology operations background with extensive experience with cloud-based platforms. The CCoE leader needs to possess a high level of business and tech acumen to provide strategic and tactical guidance.