Cloud Infrastructure Program Manager

Talentola; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Talentola seeks a senior technology delivery leader to drive end-to-end platform infrastructure programs, including cloud modernization and IaC adoption. You will collaborate with SRE, DevOps, security, and engineering teams to ensure reliable, scalable platforms and controlled budgets across multiple initiatives.

The role requires 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or PM leadership, with proven ability to manage global teams, vendor relationships, and complex programs in a hybrid work

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering enterprise infrastructure or cloud transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of Azure, AWS, or GCP, networking, compute, storage, and security.
• Proven PM skills with Agile/hybrid delivery and stakeholder management.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, and cross-functional global teams.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and IaC concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of platform infrastructure programs aligning with business and technology objectives.
• Manage roadmap, budget, timelines, risks, dependencies, and resources for multiple programs.
• Establish governance, KPI tracking, executive reporting, and DR readiness.
• Partner with SRE and operations to improve platform stability and efficiency.
• Oversee vendor engagements and third-party technology providers.
• Support CI/CD adoption, IaC, and platform standardization efforts.
• Facilitate issue resolution, escalation, and status updates to senior leadership.

Skills

Tech Delivery

Infrastructure

Platform Eng

Technical PM

Agile Delivery

Stakeholder Mgmt

Vendor Mgmt

Cloud Platforms

SRE Collaboration

AI DevOps

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of platform infrastructure programs, ensuring alignment with business and technology objectives. Drive cloud infrastructure, data centre modernization, platform engineering, and infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Manage roadmap, budget, timelines, risks, dependencies, and resource planning for multiple concurrent programs. Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, DevOps, security, networking, and application teams to ensure seamless execution.
• Establish governance frameworks, KPI tracking, executive reporting, and program review mechanisms. Drive infrastructure reliability, scalability, availability, performance, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Partner with SRE and operations teams to improve platform stability and operational efficiency. Oversee vendor engagements, managed service partners, and third-party technology providers.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, regulatory, audit, and risk management requirements. Support infrastructure automation, CI/CD adoption, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and platform standardization efforts.
• Facilitate issue resolution, escalation management, and decision-making across stakeholders. Track and communicate program status, milestones, risks, and mitigation plans to senior leadership

Experience:

10+ Years

Location:

Edina, MN

Chicago, IL

3 days’ work from office

Mandatory skills

• 10+ years of experience in Technology Delivery, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or Technical Program Management. Proven experience managing enterprise infrastructure or cloud transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP), networking, compute, storage, and security. Experience working with DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Operations, and Engineering teams.
• Strong project/program management skills with expertise in Agile and hybrid delivery models. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
• Experience managing budgets, vendor relationships, and cross-functional global teams. Preferred Qualifications PMP, PgMP, Agile, Scrum Master, ITIL, or Cloud certifications. Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and observability platforms.
• Exposure to platform engineering, self-service infrastructure, and cloud-native architectures. Experience driving large-scale infrastructure modernization and operational transformation programs.
• Proven experience architecting and delivering systems using agentic IDEs
• Ability to:
• Define architectural intent that agents can follow
• Break features into agent executable tasks
• Govern AI autonomy (guardrails, permissions, reviews)
• Integrate agentic workflows into CI/CD pipelines
• Experience supervising AI agents across:
• Multi service systems
• Legacy modernization
• Large codebases / monorepos
• Strong understanding of:
• Security implications of autonomous code execution
• Compliance, auditability, and traceability
• AI assisted SDLC operating models
• Core Responsibility:
• Guide effective use of agentic IDEs for complex, multi-module or cross-service changes
• Establish review practices and quality checks for AI-generated code
• Mentor team members on balancing autonomy, correctness, and maintainability in AI-assisted development
• Design system architectures that support AI-augmented and agentic development workflows
• Define guardrails, standards, and governance for the use of autonomous coding agents