Manager, Cloud Engineering

📋 Description Technical Leadership & Architecture Define and evolve the architecture of the cloud platform on Microsoft Azure Own the technical roadmap for the cloud platform and guide modernization initiatives Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex infrastructure and production issues Remain hands-on with infrastructure design, Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep preferred, ARM, or Terraform) Define reusable platform patterns and infrastructure modules that enable product teams to deploy safely and efficiently Establish reliability practices including observability, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and incident response Team Leadership & Development Build, hire, and onboard a high-performing team of cloud engineers Set clear performance expectations and manage reviews for direct reports Create individualized development plans aligning with team objectives and careers Mentor and coach engineers on technical skills and leadership Provide career pathing guidance and identify internal promotions Empower team members to own projects and grow ownership Operations & Strategic Execution Partner with engineering, product, and security teams for scalability and security Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and consistency Design highly available systems to support global SaaS workloads Implement tooling and reporting for transparency into infrastructure usage and cost drivers Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate productivity and automation Manage capacity planning, resource allocation, and prioritization