VP Software Engineer - Cloud Connectivity - Dallas

As part of our global Cloud Infrastructure team you will work on various components as a Software Engineer. Your role includes specification, development, testing and releasing of new features. The team owns the platforms throughout the lifecycle and expects you to contribute to the vision, understand our customers’ needs, business goals, product roadmap and help build an engineering culture within the team.

• You are a hands‑on Cloud engineer who will focus on building the connectivity products, solutions and migrating workloads to the public cloud.
• You have working knowledge of at least one of the cloud service providers AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI and design principles.
• You thrive in a multi‑project environment, dealing with different business units and teams to understand their challenges and goals in moving to the public cloud.
• You are experienced in architecting and deploying multi‑tiered applications which are highly available, resilient, with secure cloud architectures.
• You proactively manage issues and risks through the delivery lifecycle.
• You have exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision‑making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions.
• You possess a strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team.
• You are independent and comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and often multi‑directional work environment.
• Manage multiple tasks and use sound judgment when prioritizing.
• Collaborate with a globally‑distributed cross‑functional team in building customer‑centric products.
• Build services to integrate on‑premises systems with public cloud providers and software libraries to provide consistent, secure, and ready‑to‑consume patterns for application development teams using public cloud services.
• Collaborate across teams on feature design and problem solving.
• Manage the full lifecycle of software components, from requirements through design, testing, development, release and demise.
• Partner with colleagues from across Engineering to ensure an outstanding, usable, and unobtrusive experience for development teams building and deploying their applications and infrastructure.
• Help to communicate and promote best practices for public cloud application development and infrastructure management across the firm.

• Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience (more experienced professionals are desired) with at least 3+ years of familiarity with AWS services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Familiarity with disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration and release management, source code and version controls along with operating considerations such as monitoring.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Lab CI/CD, AWS Code Pipeline).
• Proficiency working with infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) tools like Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation.
• Experience working with Configuration management automation tools like Ansible.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience with Java script / Typescript / Node.
• Strong networking background (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, routing protocols).
• Proficient using relational and No
  
  SQL database technologies.
• Experience building transactional systems and strong understanding of software architecture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Exposure to containerization tools (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Basic understanding of monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Cloud Watch, ELK Stack).
• General knowledge of networking, security, and system administration in cloud environments.
• Skilled in implementing architectural governance.
• Ability to establish trusted partnerships with product leads, and executive level stakeholders.
• Comfort with agile operating models.

• AWS or any CSP certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect – Associate).
• Deep knowledge of Cloud Native Networking, Hybrid and Multi‑Cloud Strategy.
• Understanding of Solution Engineering practices.
• Fluency in AWS CDK, Typescript, NPM, Cloud Formation.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and serverless computing.
• Basic experience with performance tuning and cost optimization in AWS.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new tools and technologies.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.

We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodation for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process.