Vice President - DevOps

Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced VP of Infrastructure & Cloud Operations to lead the design implementation and management of our Cloud/SaaS platform and operations. As the VP Infrastructure & Cloud Operations you will be responsible for the strategies and operational plans to ensure the availability scalability performance and security of our Cloud platform. You will report to the CIO/SVP of IT and work closely with cross-functional teams including product management engineering information technology customer success and security to drive innovation and efficiency in our SaaS operations.

You will have responsibility for release management cloud provisioning and FinOps monitoring and observability site reliability engineering (practices and processes) to create highly reliable and scalable solutions and code red (outage escalation processes) etc.. This role requires a strong technical background in SaaS/Cloud computing excellent leadership skills and a proven track record of successfully managing large-scale SaaS/Cloud Environments.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the design and implementation of the environment and processes for SaaS/cloud operations and monitoring systems.

• Lead and manage a team of engineers responsible for designing implementing and supporting our private and public Cloud platforms.

• Oversee the deployment monitoring and maintenance of product releases ensuring high availability scalability and performance.

• Ownership of reporting on platform performance/availability (SLAs)

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement best practices standards and policies related to SaaS/Cloud infrastructure architecture and operations.

• Drive continuous improvement efforts to optimize performance reliability cost-efficiency and security.

• Identify potential points of failure and effectively implement processes that support the rapid growth and improve the overall delivery of current products as well as acquired products.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members fostering their professional growth and development.

• Establish and maintain effective communication channels with stakeholders providing regular updates on infrastructure projects and initiatives.

• Develop and manage the infrastructure budget ensuring cost-effective allocation of resources.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field. A Master's degree is preferred.

• 10 years' experience working as a Director or VP with demonstrated success in operating mission critical software services in a SaaS/Cloud environment such as Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure or other enterprise SaaS/cloud platforms.

• 5+ years of firsthand experience in 24x7x365 SaaS/Cloud Operations.

• 5+ years of experience managing data center operations.

• Hands-on platform engineering and/or SRE experience

• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing highly available scalable and secure Cloud infrastructure solutions.

• Proficient in infrastructure automation (IaC) tools such as AWS CloudFormation Ansible or Chef.

• In-depth understanding of DevOps principles and practices including CI/CD pipelines containerization.

• Experience with infrastructure monitoring logging and analytics tools (e.g. DataDog NewRelic LogicMonitor).

• Experience setting up and maintaining an on-call system (PagerDuty OpsGenie)

• Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles and best practices related to Cloud infrastructure.

• Strong leadership and managerial skills with the ability to effectively lead and motivate a diverse team across different time zones.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

EEO Statement:

Cendyn provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements Cendyn complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Cendyn expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age genetic information disability or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Cendyn’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

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