Hybrid Cloud & Systems Engineering Manager

BAM Ventures; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal is seeking a Manager, Systems & Cloud Engineering to lead the DevEx Cloud Infrastructure Engineers and serve as a strategic product partner. This role owns the roadmap for platforms, tools, and service architecture supporting PayPal Credit across AWS and on-premises environments, including the Loan Management System built on modern tech.

You will align security, audit, and compliance with budgets and vendor relationships.

Qualifications

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience owning technical product roadmaps and translating business priorities into actionable backlogs.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to represent technical roadmaps to senior leadership, security, and audit partners.

Responsibilities

• Own the DevEx product vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog by translating business priorities and developer feedback into JIRA epics that define the team’s work.
• Lead, coach, hire, and develop a team of infrastructure engineers, including performance management and career growth.
• Direct the design, deployment, and operation of infrastructure powering PayPal Credit's Loan Management System and lending products, spanning AWS and on premises environments, certificate lifecycle management, patching, disaster recovery, and resiliency testing.
• Serve as the primary partner for Security, Audit, and Compliance, overseeing vulnerability remediation, PCI/SOX requirements, access reviews, and audit responses.
• Manage AWS budgets, vendor relationships, purchase orders, invoices, forecasting, and cost-optimization initiatives.
• Partner with development and business teams to remove delivery blockers and identify new platforms, tools, and partnerships that support product launches and revenue growth.

Skills

AWS cloud

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Datadog

Splunk

Terraform

Job description

PayPal is seeking a Manager, Systems & Cloud Engineering to lead the DevEx Cloud Infrastructure Engineers and serve as a strategic product partner. This role owns the roadmap for platforms, tools, and service architecture supporting PayPal Credit across AWS and on-premises environments, including the Loan Management System built on modern tech.

You will align security, audit, and compliance with budgets and vendor relationships.