Practice Director, Cloud Services
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ToptalCloud services
Listing location: United StatesFull-TimeDirector
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 15+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering and architecture, with at least 5+ years leading teams of solution architects or senior engineers within cloud or technology services; 3+ years managing a business or team.
- Required Skills
- AWSGCPKubernetesMicrosoft AzureCI/CD
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; an MBA is preferred.
- 15+ years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering and architecture.
- At least 5+ years leading teams of solution architects or senior engineers within cloud or technology services.
- 3+ years managing a business or team, preferably with P&L or budget responsibility.
- Experience building and scaling hybrid cloud and DevOps service offerings.
- Expertise in hybrid and multi-cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform, including on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments.
- Experience with data center and virtualization platforms such as VMware, Nutanix, or Hyper-V, and hybrid cloud technologies such as Azure Arc, AWS Outposts, or Google Distributed Cloud.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, serverless computing, and microservices architecture.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and automation frameworks such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or Argo CD.
- Expertise in DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, observability, and delivery metrics such as DORA.
- Experience with cloud migration, application modernization, disaster recovery, and business continuity in hybrid environments.
- Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks and practices such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or CIS.
- Knowledge of FinOps, cloud cost optimization, AI-enabled infrastructure and operations, and edge computing.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of solution architects.
- Recruit, onboard, and retain solution architects, ensuring team capabilities meet market demand.
- Define reference architectures, design patterns, and best practices for hybrid cloud and DevOps solutions, and review solution designs.
- Partner with Sales to assess client needs, shape proposals, and lead key client conversations.
- Develop repeatable offerings such as hybrid cloud architecture and migration, landing zones, container platforms, CI/CD and DevSecOps, SRE, observability, and FinOps.
- Partner with Delivery to guide implementation and engineering decisions, stepping in on critical engagements.
- Plan team capacity, manage workload and utilization, and track team metrics.
- Build relationships with technology and cloud partners and keep certifications and partner alignment current.
- Contribute marketing content on hybrid cloud, platform engineering, and DevOps trends.
- Own architecture for strategic accounts and build proofs of concept.
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