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Director, Cloud Engineering

Blackwomenintech
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/28/2025

What You'll Do

The Director of Cloud Engineering position is for a dynamic, talented individual with deep cloud experience with Amazon Web Services and preferably financial services in a fast-paced environment. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a once-in-a-generation technical stack with unique designs and implementations.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

In this role, you’ll focus on growing and retaining extraordinary engineers and managers, and you will develop, mentor, and inspire diverse teams to continue strengthening and scaling our organization. You’ll also be responsible for driving results in our cloud platform, collaborating with engineers and other leaders to build a reliable, scalable, secure technology stack using leading industry practices. You’ll consistently communicate and deliver to commitments and increase the velocity of our teams by removing roadblocks.

Supervisory Responsibilities :

  • Manage a team

Qualifications :

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

Required :

  • 5 years of demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, with an emphasis on developing key talent and cultivating positive, high-performing cultures.
  • 10 years of progressive experience in software engineering with an understanding of large-scale computing solutions (Primarily AWS), including software design and development, database architectures, IP networking, security, cloud operations, and performance tuning.
  • A people-focused leadership style, with a track record of motivating and inspiring individuals and teams.
  • Masterful communication skills and the ability to convey ideas and information effectively across internal and external groups, at all levels of the organization.
  • An ability to get into the details when necessary to support execution and remove roadblocks that are holding the team back, and the judgment to know when not to.
  • An understanding of the value of inclusivity and diversity and a track record of putting these values into practice.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills, including the ability to influence even without total formal authority.
  • Preferred :

  • Comfort with ambiguity
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex programs in a decentralized environment.
  • Ability to effectively drive business, culture, and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment
  • Technical Skills : Required :

  • Basic understanding of operating systems, including Linux.
  • Deep understanding of AWS services, with a strong focus on platform services and core services.
  • Functional understanding of security, compliance, and controls and their implementation within the cloud.
  • Functional understanding of cloud networking principles, including firewalls, VPCs, secure gateways and more.
  • Functional understanding of containers, container management, and container orchestration, including Kubernetes and the different components of Kubernetes.
  • Basic understanding of good delivery practices and continual integration and improvement.
  • Agile / Lean background for projects and project delivery.
  • Strong understanding of automation, automation principles, and different aspects of pipelines and automation delivery.
  • Preferred :

  • Advanced cloud strategic capability and delivery deep understanding.
  • Advanced security segmentation and controls deep understanding.
  • Advanced automation principles and modern cloud design.
  • Education and / or Experience :

    Bachelor's degree and six years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree and three years of relevant experience.

    Certificates or Licenses :

    AWS Solution Architect Associate (Required)

    AWS Solution Architect Professional (Preferred)

    Who We Are

    The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures, and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

    What We Offer

    A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include :

  • A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work.
  • Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education.
  • Student Loan Repayment Assistance.
  • Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely.
  • Generous PTO and Parental leave.
  • Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Step 1

    Want to make an application Make sure your CV is up to date, then read the following job specs carefully before applying.

    When you find a position you're interested in, click the 'Apply' button. Please complete the application and attach your resume.

    Step 2

    You will receive an email notification to confirm that we've received your application.

    Step 3

    If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location.

    For more information about OCC, please click here.

    OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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