Manager – Cloud Engineering

What You'll Do:

This role will lead and manage a team of highly technical team members and perform a range of activities required to both maintain and continuously automate a large, complex cloud-based computing environment. In addition, you will provide technical guidance to the team and, when called upon, serve as a technical liaison between internal departments. This will involve utilizing best practices for the management, architecture, configuration, high availability, disaster recovery, administration, and automation of the enterprise environment with cloud technologies. These activities will drive the creation of new infrastructure and environments, which will be critical to continued growth and adoption of broad cloud/automation goals across the business. The ideal candidate is a player-coach, passionate about new technologies and leading technical teams to accomplish complex project initiatives and implement mission critical systems, while keeping current with trends in the Cloud and Infrastructure spaces for areas to improve, with a steady eye towards the extensive regulatory/compliance demands on our company (e.g. CIS, NIST, etc).

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

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

• Reports to the Director of Platform Automation and Cloud Engineering

• Design, configure, implement and manage a fully automated workflow for provisioning and maintaining a complex, highly available cloud environment using infrastructure as code

• Develop and maintain a library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures for deploying services to the cloud

• Manage DevOps development activities and complex development tasks that will involve working with tools such as Docker, Kafka and container management systems

• Lead and participate in cloud computing environment build-outs, software installation, maintenance and support, including but not limited to, patches, fixes, end-of-life preparation, and upgrades

• Ensure the reliability of the services your area of responsibility provide and manage to both specific and implied SLAs to help the organization achieve both internal and external quality standard excellence for the cloud platform

• Assess and plan for capacity needs within the cloud platform and forecast accordingly

• Implement and manage initiatives within your assigned area of responsibility with accountability for results and compliance with all controls and security requirements

• Lead in the development of technology roadmaps and end-of-life technology plans

• Effectively communicate project and operational service issues to senior management promptly with observations, decisions, and recommendations for corrective measures

• Meet with team members regularly to provide coaching and feedback on performance

• Perform evaluations and deal effectively with staff problems and corrective actions as needed

• Develop employee career development plans to assist with team member career growth and development

• Provide coaching and feedback as needed to ensure a high performing team

• Manage and participate in the implementation of production changes during defined maintenance windows and support on call rotation

• Maintain appropriate work/personal balance within your team

• Serve as a point of escalation within the team for support issues

• Implement and manage rotational support schedules for afterhours and weekend work for area of responsibility

• Foster an atmosphere of trust, respect, and high performance while displaying strong ethics and integrity

• Lead team meetings

• Manage project and daily work task planning and prioritization and meeting project deadlines while also maintaining a high quality of work

• Ensure team compliance with all appropriate OCC policies and procedures

• Institutes corrective actions to address audit and other regulatory or compliance findings

• Operate within budget; Establish and assure adherence to schedules, work plans, and performance requirements

• Write and maintain documentation of relevant systems, procedures and processes

• Other duties as assigned

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] Strong consultative, communication, team player and analytical skills are a must, as you will be regularly interacting between various teams which are distributed across the US

• [Required] Strong technical team leadership and technical project management skills are required

• [Required] Relevant experience leading highly technical team members through adopting new technologies while also maintaining highly available, mission critical systems with a proven track record of success

• [Required] Ability to clearly communicate verbally and in writing to business and technology leaders, architects, developers, and team members

• [Required] Must be able to collaborate effectively with a group of high performing, technical individuals

• [Required] Experience managing work tasks using Agile methodology/scrum desired

• [Required] Expert working knowledge of infrastructure design and components, such as servers, operating systems, networks, and storage

• [Required] Experience with architecting, implementing and maintaining highly available mission critical environments for 24x7 availability

• [Required] Demonstrated history of working within deadlines and ability to work well under pressure

• [Preferred] Experience working in an environment with a defined production change control process; experience with working with audits and compliance or in a regulated environment a plus

Technical Skills:

• [Required] Hands-on experience with: Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Kafka, Github, and configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible

• [Required] Relevant experience with configuration and implementation of IaaS, Infrastructure as code, AWS, Azure, etc.

• [Preferred] Competent in all phases of application development and implementation, including SDLC; Hands-on experience scripting/development skills in Python, Ruby, Go, Java, etc. in a corporate environment strongly desired

Education and/or Experience:

• [Required] Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent combination of education and experience required

• [Required] 7+ years' experience in IT systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of cloud systems / virtualized servers

• [Preferred] Experience working in a financial services or highly regulated environment preferred

Certificates or Licenses:

• [Required] AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification or higher strongly desired

• [Preferred] Relevant industry certifications such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud

About Us

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.

Benefits

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
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

Incentive Range

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer