Cloud Operations Lead: Multi-Cloud & Automation

University of New Hampshire; Keene (NH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of New Hampshire seeks a Team Lead for the Cloud Operations and Engineering group in Durham. You will lead a 3-person team, oversee all work, plan resources, and guide staff hiring, onboarding, and performance reviews to ensure timely, high‑quality delivery of enterprise IT automation and cloud services.

Responsibilities span automation platforms, multi‑cloud design (Azure, AWS, private cloud), Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 4+ years IT experience or equivalent combination.
• Hands-on cloud design and management in Azure and AWS, including hybrid setups.
• Experience with VPCs, DNS, load balancing, and security groups.
• Experience with Terraform and CloudFormation for IaC.
• Knowledge of cloud cost governance and FinOps practices.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision to a team of 3 Cloud Operations and Engineering staff.
• Oversee all work for quality and timely delivery; plan resources.
• Perform hiring, onboarding, and offboarding; support staff development.
• Conduct annual and ongoing performance reviews and goal setting.
• Maintain adherence to institutional policies; manage performance improvements.
• Input into merit-based salary adjustments.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Multi-cloud

CI/CD

DevOps

Team supervision

Staff development

Performance reviews

Terraform

Ansible

Azure DevOps

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Docker

Puppet

Salt

SCCM

LAMP admin

Linux admin

Windows admin

Scripting

Python

Bash/PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate's degree

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Ansible

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Salt

Puppet

SCCM

Windows Server

LAMP stack

Python

Bash/PowerShell

Job description

The University of New Hampshire seeks a Team Lead for the Cloud Operations and Engineering group in Durham. You will lead a 3-person team, oversee all work, plan resources, and guide staff hiring, onboarding, and performance reviews to ensure timely, high‑quality delivery of enterprise IT automation and cloud services.

Responsibilities span automation platforms, multi‑cloud design (Azure, AWS, private cloud), Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and governance.