Director of Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering

Eliassen Group; Burnt Mills Village (MD); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is hiring a Director of Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering in the Baltimore area. The role leads a globally distributed team responsible for cloud platforms, automation, and governance, with a strong focus on AWS, multi-cloud strategy, and cost optimization.

The position is hybrid, with up to three days remote, offering a full-time W2 role and a competitive benefits package. You will drive best practices and architect scalable, secure cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technical leadership with distributed teams.
• Experience integrating infrastructure across on‑premises and cloud providers.
• Hands-on cloud security, reliability, and integration best practices in AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Fluency with Terraform and CloudFormation; Ansible, Python, Java, or Groovy is beneficial.
• Extensive experience managing cloud infrastructures on AWS and Azure with exposure to GCP.
• Experience integrating SaaS and vendor solutions in cross‑cloud environments.
• Proven design of HA and resilient architectures at scale with automated configuration and IaC.
• Knowledge of modern monitoring and alerting for hybrid environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, development, and governance of evolving cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure is sustainable, reliable, resilient, expandable, and cost optimized.
• Define and maintain automation platforms, deployment patterns, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Own complex technical initiatives from conception through delivery and incident resolution.
• Mentor, coach, recruit, and manage performance for a distributed engineering team.

Job description

Description

Hybrid up to three days per week from home in either Owing Mills, MD or Baltimore, MD.

Our client seeks a Director of Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering to lead a globally distributed team that designs, develops, and deploys cloud infrastructure and automation. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, performance management, and governance of cloud platforms. You will drive multi-cloud strategy with emphasis on AWS, define automation platforms and deployment patterns, promote best practices, and ensure sustainable, reliable, resilient, and cost-optimized infrastructure at scale.

Full-time, permanent opportunity, offering a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Qualified applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis.

Salary: $200,000 - $190,000/ yr. w2.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, development, and governance of evolving cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure is sustainable, reliable, resilient, expandable, and cost optimized.
• Define and maintain automation platforms, deployment patterns, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Own complex technical initiatives from conception through delivery and incident resolution.
• Guide cross-functional adoption of standard methodologies and represent the cloud community in forums.
• Monitor industry trends and assess emerging technologies including multi-cloud strategies.
• Align team objectives to the Global Technology strategy and drive continuous improvement.
• Apply IAM and security best practices within the SDLC.
• Build organizational networks and represent Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering in councils and groups.
• Mentor, coach, recruit, and manage performance for a distributed engineering team.

Experience Requirements

• 10+ years in technical leadership with experience leading geographically distributed teams.
• Expertise integrating infrastructure components across on-premises and cloud service providers.
• Hands-on experience with cloud security, reliability, and integration best practices in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Fluency with Terraform and CloudFormation; experience with Ansible, Python, Java, or Groovy is beneficial.
• Extensive experience managing cloud infrastructures on AWS and Azure with exposure to GCP.
• Experience integrating SaaS and vendor solutions in cross-cloud environments.
• Proven design of HA and resilient architectures at scale with automated configuration and IaC.
• In-depth knowledge of modern monitoring and alerting for hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of asset management industry products and flows is a plus.
• Cloud certifications are preferred.