Cloud Engineer Manager I

Role Summary

We are seeking high-caliber cloud and infrastructure professionals to support enterprise-scale migration, modernization, automation, and cloud transformation initiatives.

The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with practical delivery experience across cloud platforms, infrastructure, networking, automation, migration, and operations. Successful individuals will be capable of contributing throughout the transformation lifecycle, from discovery and assessment through migration execution, modernization, optimization, and operational support.

This role is intended for technology professionals who can connect strategy with execution, operate effectively in complex enterprise environments, and take ownership of delivering measurable outcomes.

What Success Looks Like

Successful candidates demonstrate the ability to:

• Assess and understand complex enterprise environments.
• Design practical and scalable cloud solutions.
• Execute migrations with a strong focus on reliability and business continuity.
• Automate processes and reduce operational overhead.
• Identify modernization opportunities beyond simple workload migration.
• Troubleshoot complex technical challenges across multiple technology domains.
• Communicate effectively with technical teams, stakeholders, and business partners.
• Take ownership of delivery, outcomes, and continuous improvement.

The strongest candidates possess a balance of technical depth, enterprise experience, problem-solving capability, and a demonstrated ability to deliver results.

Core Capability Areas

Cloud Platforms & Architecture

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the primary platform for this role. Experience with AWS and Microsoft Azure is considered advantageous.

Candidates should possess a solid understanding of cloud architecture principles including:

• Enterprise Landing Zones
• Shared VPC Architecture
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery
• Multi-Region Deployments
• Security & Governance Controls
• Cost Optimization & FinOps
• Cloud Architecture Design Patterns

Enterprise Migration & Transformation

Candidates should demonstrate practical experience in enterprise migration programs and cloud transformation initiatives.

Key areas include:

• Data Center to Cloud Migrations
• AWS to GCP Migrations
• Infrastructure & Application Assessments
• Dependency Mapping & Discovery
• Application Rationalization
• Migration Planning & Execution
• Migration Wave Planning
• Cutover Management
• Hypercare Support
• Rollback Planning
• Migration Factory Delivery Models

Understanding of common migration strategies is expected, including Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retain, and Retire approaches.

Infrastructure & Data Center Technologies

A strong infrastructure foundation remains critical for success.

Preferred experience includes:

• VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter
• Windows Server Administration
• Linux Administration
• Active Directory
• DNS and DHCP Services
• Enterprise Storage Platforms
• SAN/NAS Technologies
• Backup and Recovery Solutions
• Capacity Planning
• Change and Release Management

Candidates should demonstrate an understanding of how enterprise workloads operate on-premises as well as in cloud environments.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Automation is a core expectation of this role.

Hands-on experience is expected with:

• Terraform
• Terraform Enterprise / Cloud
• Python
• PowerShell
• Shell Scripting

Additional experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or similar DevOps toolsets is highly desirable.

Candidates should be able to demonstrate examples where automation improved consistency, scalability, efficiency, or operational maturity.

Networking & Hybrid Connectivity

Strong networking knowledge is considered essential.

Candidates should be comfortable discussing:

• TCP/IP Networking
• Routing and Switching
• DNS
• VLAN Design
• Firewalls
• Load Balancers
• VPN Technologies
• MPLS
• SD-WAN
• BGP

Experience with Google Cloud networking services is highly desirable, including:

• Shared VPC
• Cloud Router
• Cloud VPN
• Cloud Interconnect
• Cloud NAT
• Private Service Connect

The ability to troubleshoot hybrid connectivity challenges across cloud and on-premises environments is highly valued.

Security & Governance

Candidates should demonstrate practical exposure to enterprise security and governance practices.

Key competency areas include:

• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Active Directory Integration
• Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Secrets Management
• Vulnerability Management
• Cloud Governance
• Cost Governance (FinOps)
• Security & Compliance Controls

Experience with frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks, ISO27001, SOX, or similar enterprise standards is beneficial.

Migration Discovery & Assessment Tooling

Preferred experience includes one or more of the following:

• Google Cloud Migration Center
• Migrate to Virtual Machines (M2VM)
• ServiceNow
• Dynatrace
• Device42
• RVTools
• Cloudamize
• Azure Migrate

Candidates who have participated in discovery, dependency mapping, assessment, and migration readiness initiatives will be viewed favorably.

Modernization & Cloud-Native Technologies

While migration experience remains important, the ability to identify modernization opportunities is equally valuable.

Relevant experience includes:

• Kubernetes
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Docker
• OpenShift
• Platform Engineering
• Microservices Architecture
• API Enablement
• Cloud-Native Design Patterns
• CI/CD
• GitOps
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Observability & Monitoring

Candidates should be able to articulate where modernization delivers tangible business or operational value.

Data & Analytics Platforms

Experience with enterprise databases and cloud data platforms is advantageous.

Preferred exposure includes:

• SQL Server
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• BigQuery
• Cloud SQL
• Database Migration Services

Experience supporting database modernization, migration, or analytics workloads is highly desirable.

Operations & Reliability Engineering

Successful migration programs extend beyond workload movement.

Candidates should demonstrate experience supporting production environments through:

• Incident Management
• Problem Management
• Change Management
• Major Incident Response
• ServiceNow Processes
• Production Support
• Platform Operations
• Site Reliability Engineering Practices

The ability to support, optimize, and continuously improve workloads post-migration is an important differentiator.