Global Cloud Platform Strategy Leader

Pacific Life; Newport Beach (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Benefits start day 1

Competitive 401k with company match

Job summary

Pacific Life is seeking a Cloud Platforms Director to lead our Cloud & Compute Platforms team from Charlotte, NC or Newport Beach, CA. Relocation assistance may be provided.

You will shape the strategy for cloud platform engineering, manage a global team of engineers, and partner with business leaders across the US, UK, and APAC to enable growth. This role requires 10+ years in cloud platform management and a 4-year degree; AWS or other cloud certifications are a plus.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cloud platform management, IT infrastructure, or related fields.
• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• Ability to generate executive-level proposals, presentations, and other communications content that speaks to all levels of technical, business, and financial leaders.
• Proven track record of leading infrastructure operations teams, preferably in a global environment.
• Strong understanding of security, identity, networking, cloud technologies, and hybrid environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a strategic roadmap for cloud platform engineering, aligning with business and IT objectives.
• Manage a robust distributed cloud core infrastructure, ensuring governance, redundancy, resilience, and automation.
• Lead a team of experienced cloud platform engineers, fostering excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure cloud platforms are scalable, performant, resilient, secure, and cost-effective.
• Collaborate with business and technology leadership to gather requirements and meet stakeholder needs.
• Manage vendor relationships, negotiate contracts, and oversee third-party services.
• Develop and run a comprehensive service line in a global setting to automate and run cloud workloads, supported by KPIs and KRIs.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to align global compute strategies with IT and business goals.
• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Executive communication

Strategic roadmaps

Security & compliance

Budgeting

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelors degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

AWS

Job description

Pacific Life is seeking a Cloud Platforms Director to lead our Cloud & Compute Platforms team from Charlotte, NC or Newport Beach, CA. Relocation assistance may be provided.

You will shape the strategy for cloud platform engineering, manage a global team of engineers, and partner with business leaders across the US, UK, and APAC to enable growth. This role requires 10+ years in cloud platform management and a 4-year degree; AWS or other cloud certifications are a plus.