Head of Cloud Engineering at Illinois Full time

For one of our long-term multiyear full time projects, we are looking for a Head of Cloud Engineer.

• Key Accountabilities :
• Drive Cloud Modernization Roadmap
• Provide strategic leadership and direction to steer the roadmap for modernization and migration of legacy capabilities to Public Cloud
• Drive the decision making around cloud migration approaches and trade-offs based on business case, technology strategy alignment, product strategy and operational efficiencies
• Govern Cloud Architecture Strategy
• Provide cloud architecture thought leadership on emerging cloud engineering patterns and practices including API led connectivity, Event Driven integration, modern data platform architectures.
• Steer the decisioning around buy-build-reuse in the architecture strategy evaluating capabilities of Cloud and SAAS offerings
• Manage and plan architecture strategies to balance BAU continuity in the interim state for complex cloud migration journies
• Bring thought leadership on data integration strategies with external providers and services
• Establish metrics and measurements to govern architecture quality, technical debt, alignment to industry best practices and frameworks such as Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Manage Business Resilience and Security in Cloud
• Decision making on critical security and compliance requirements in the cloud based on Info security and regulatory requirements
• Provide direction to ensure the future state architecture is secure by design, meets data governance and data privacy requirements
• Define the process and automation to ensure enterprise resilience in the cloud leveraging Site Reliability Engineering principles
• Establish Risk Management and Mitigation strategies to ensure continuity of critical business processes in the Cloud based on the SLOs / SLAs
• Drive Continuous Delivery Model for Cloud Capabilities
• Own the overall Cloud Platform Automation strategy to enable business to rapidly consume cloud services, improve developer productivity, optimize the cloud platform spend
• Drive adoption of ALM and DevOps strategy, enabling agile product development and continuous integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Testing best practices.
• Drive Operational Excellence in Cloud
• Own the Cloud Service Delivery and Service Management based on ITIL processes and frameworks
• Promote continuous monitoring and observability, everything-as-code mindset steering towards a touchless cloud operations paradigm
• Anticipate and plan for achieving scalability and performance objectives while optimizing the overall cloud spend
• Experience you have :
• Hands-on experience in transforming application portfolios to public cloud
• Demonstrated deep architecture expertise with applying modern design patterns that leverage Azure PAAS, FAAS and Data Platforms to application modernization scenarios
• Experience with architectural reviews, leveraging tools where possible to automate quality checks
• Executed complex multi-year cloud transformation journey at scale
• Methodologies for adopting agile dev / test engineering at scale using SAFE or other industry frameworks
• Has expertise in ITIL processes / practices / methods as well as designing and implementing IT services
• Experience in implementing DevSecOps capabilities especially with continuous integration, continuous delivery and environment automation (“infrastructure-as-a-code”, automated provisioning, deployments and runbook automation)
• Knowledge of tool sets across the cloud value chain e.g.  Azure DevOps, Hashicorp Terraform, AppDynamics, ServiceNow, Azure Monitor, etc.
• Extensive experience transitioning complex end to end IT Service Management within multi vendor environment
• Has abilities to plan for organizational change management, especially the impact of cloud to roles, organization structure and change readiness
• Excellent communication and project management skills; adept at managing stakeholders at all level
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills