VP Cloud Engineering

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We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we're on the hunt for enthusiastic professionals to join our team! We understand that connectivity isn't just a luxury anymore – it's a necessity that empowers lives, fuels businesses, and drives innovation. A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected. We owe our success to our amazing product, commitment to our people and the connections we make in every community.

If you are resourceful, collaborative, team-oriented and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is the Company for you!

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Job Summary

The Vice President of Cloud Engineering will be responsible for enhancing and maintaining our private and public cloud infrastructure, and driving the technical direction, innovation, and scalability of our Cloud Engineering and Operations teams. The Vice President, Cloud Engineering will lead a team which is responsible for operating, architecting and building key infrastructure that runs high availability services that our customers and their businesses depend upon.

Responsibilities

• Actively contributes toward the vision, strategy, organization and leadership of the cloud engineering function.
• Defines and enforces cloud engineering best practices, standards, and architectural guidelines.
• Provides technical expertise, strategic direction and guidance to ensure the delivery of resilient, scalable, secure and efficient cloud-based solutions. This includes leadership and guidance related to automation, monitoring and performance optimization.
• Provides effective leadership in developing highly engaged, high-performance cloud engineering teams, fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• Leads complex and high visibility end to end projects through design, budgeting, testing, implementation and performance monitoring.
• Implement and maintain incident response and disaster recovery plans for the cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and implement cloud strategy to minimize failure, improve efficiency and reduce downtime.
• Ensure uptime, security, and efficiency of our cloud infrastructure, and establish a culture of continuous improvement through analytics and metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field; Master’s degree preferred but not necessary.
• Minimum ten years experience in Engineering or Architecture.
• Minimum five years of experience with cloud infrastructure.
• Minimum five years of experience leading Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams.
• Solid understanding of SRE practices, DevOps, and agile methodologies.
• Experience with comprehensive technology delivery that is secure and reliable including disaster recovery planning and operations, storage area network and redundant, highly available server and network architectures.
• Ability to analyze data/information and utilize key operating metrics to guide decisive decision making and clearly articulate the decisions to the intended audience.
• Strategic thinking capabilities with the ability to envision, articulate, and plan complex deliverables to align with the company’s goals and financial needs.
• Strong leadership and management skills; ability to select, develop, and motivate talent to address skill and capability gaps.
• Ability to develop, communicate, and embed best practice procedures both within a large team and across other functional areas.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate cross-functionally at all levels of the organization.
• Experience developing cloud computing technology and infrastructure as well as experience designing and migrating applications to the cloud.
• Experience with both GCP and AWS.

At Optimum, we're fueled by our four core pillars: Taking Ownership, Upholding Transparency, Creating Community, and Demonstrating Expertise. Our commitment to empowering employees to take responsibility and embrace proactive problem-solving underpins Taking Ownership. Upholding Transparency is at the core of our culture, with open and honest communication fostering trust among our dedicated team and loyal customers. Creating Community is more than a goal; it's our daily commitment to fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and positivity. Demonstrating expertise is a promise we uphold through continuous learning and engagement with our customers to consistently deliver top-quality products and services. These pillars not only shape our culture but define Optimum as a place of excellence, trustworthiness, and thriving community, and we invite you to be a part of our journey.

If you have the drive to succeed and are ready to embark on a thrilling career, seize this opportunity today, and join our winning team, so together, we'll shape the future of connectivity.

All job descriptions and required skills, qualifications and responsibilities for a particular position are subject to modification by the Company from time to time, in the Company’s discretion based on business necessity.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds regardless of gender, race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.