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Role Description
Reporting to Manager, Cloud Operations, you will be responsible for supervising day-to-day activities of your team managing Varicent's global cloud infrastructure. Leading a regional team, you will strive for predictable operations and consistent service delivery adhering to established SLA’s. Key responsibilities include:
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Leading a small regional team of Cloud Operations engineers, ensuring their productivity and efficiency.
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Owning your team’s on-call process for Incident and Change Management staffing rotations.
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Implementing strategies to improve efficiency and productivity of the Cloud Operations team and the cloud infrastructure.
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Being flexible to support your team and Cloud Operations global collaboration efforts across multiple time zones.
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Establishing and maintaining effective communication and consistent reporting deliverables with direct and senior management.
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Leading and developing engineers, providing support and mentoring.
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Being accountable for your team’s consistent level of engagement.
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Adopting a hands-on approach and driving towards a results-driven culture.
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Working closely with other Cloud Operations leads and development, testing, and architecture teams to optimize cloud workflows and automate processes.
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Driving the adoption of Cloud Operations best practices across the organization.
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Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement global Cloud Operations initiatives.
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Defining, continuously monitoring, and analyzing team performance metrics.
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Acting as an escalation point for incident resolutions.
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Owning and measuring team responsiveness to all service connection points.
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Ensuring consistent adherence to Change Management process.
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Collaborating with other team leads on development and implementation of personal growth and training programs.
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Ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements in Cloud Operations.
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Making sure operational documentation and knowledge base is created, accurate, and up to date.
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
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5 years, hands-on, technical experience in Cloud Operations or a related field with SLAs of upward 99.9%.
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3 years experience leading and managing a team of 3-5 in a Cloud Operations environment.
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Practical, hands-on experience in cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP or IBM Cloud.
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Proven technical expertise with Linux / Windows systems administration.
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In-depth understanding of core networking concepts, IP space, subnetting, DNS, VPN.
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Hands-on experience with service logging, infrastructure and performance monitoring solutions.
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Solid understanding of Release Management with hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline development.
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Practical experience working with enterprise databases.
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Proficiency in measurable process improvements that increase efficiency and productivity.
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Solid experience with Jira or other Service Management platform.
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Well organized with ability to communicate concisely and clearly.
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Excellent collaboration skills.
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Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
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Certifications in Cloud Operations or related fields are a plus.
Requirements
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Get to know your team, your peers and their teams.
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Get familiar with organizational structure, culture, purpose, and goals.
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Understand Cloud Operations goals and KPI’s as well as their delivery cadence.
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Understand our SaaS products, services and technologies that power our services.
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Learn our core operational functions and day-to-day deliverables.
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Participate in incident reviews, maintenance planning activities, and change reviews.
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Learn and review existing performance metrics and objectives for your team.
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Learn how we monitor service performance and technologies behind them.
Benefits
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Own your team’s execution of operational processes.
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Ensure team performance consistency through continuous review, reporting and feedback loop.
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Establish yourself as a leader, mentor, and coach for your team.
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Lead your team through their personal training and growth plans.
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Ensure smooth onboarding of new products and services.
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Own your teams’ and relevant Cloud Operations reporting deliverables.
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Strive for excellence, challenge yourself and team.
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Measure consistent responsiveness to incidents across all time zones.
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Lead continuous improvements of the infrastructure and governance processes.
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Continue growing your technology portfolio and skillsets.