Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (Automation / Migration)

3Cloud; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to provide technical delivery leadership on client engagements. In this role, you will guide architectural design sessions, mentor junior team members, and ensure successful project delivery using Azure technologies. You'll be part of a collaborative culture that values feedback and continuous growth, while also leading business development initiatives to identify new opportunities. If you're passionate about cloud infrastructure and eager to make a significant impact, this position offers a rewarding career path in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Cloud Infrastructure solutions and their delivery.
• Experience with Azure technologies and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery on client engagements and provide coaching.
• Drive alignment between technical mesh points across practice areas.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure Solutions

Azure Technologies

Technical Delivery Leadership

Consultative Skills

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Coaching and Mentoring

Education

AZ-305 Cloud Architect Certification

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Log Analytics (KQL)

Azure Site Recovery

Azure Backup

Azure Security

Job description

Are you looking for a role that motivates and challenges you? Are you ready for an opportunity for growth? Do you want to work on teams where people roll up their sleeves to take on tough problems together, and regularly blow the doors off our clients with their outstanding teamwork? If you answered yes to those questions, 3Cloud might just be for you!

At 3Cloud, we hire people who aren’t afraid to experiment or fail. We hire people who are willing to give direct and candid feedback to their managers, leaders, and team members. We hire people who jump at those opportunities because they care about our collective growth and success. We hire people who challenge and hold each other accountable for living 3Cloud’s core values because they know that it will result in amazing experiences and solutions for our clients and each other.

Overview: The 3Cloud Lead Cloud Platform Engineer is primarily responsible for providing technical delivery leadership on client engagements, leading the architectural design sessions with the client, providing regular coaching and guidance to peers that help with the implementation, managing client expectations, all while cultivating a collaborative and inclusive team culture. The Lead Cloud Engineer role provides a career path for Sr. Cloud Engineers and Cloud Engineers that are aspiring to lead and guide client engagements from end to end.

People Development in Project

• Lead Cloud Platform Engineers are responsible for providing technical oversight and guidance for those younger career team members that are learning the 3Cloud approach to infrastructure engagements.
• Serve as coach in a player-coach model to help support the upskilling of team members and help them build their confidence in infrastructure delivery.
• Help foster and build relationships between cloud infrastructure teams (delivery, delivery excellence, and solution architecture) as well as outside of the practice.

Delivery Support Activities

• Function as technical delivery oversight with strong consultative skills on multiple client engagements.
• Partner with Delivery Excellence to ensure project milestones are aligned to a project plan that is inclusive of capturing key client decisions.
• Broad deep technical knowledge across Azure technologies inclusive of: Log Analytics (KQL), Application Insights, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure Security, Azure Networking (App Gateways, Front Door, Firewall, VWAN), Azure Storage, Azure Automation (IaC), Azure Sentinel, App Services, Containers (AKS), Managed Instances, Azure SQL, Azure DNS, Azure Virtual Desktop + Nerdio, Azure Files.
• Have a strong understanding of Cloud Infrastructure solutions and the delivery/execution of how they are implemented using IaC (Bicep or Terraform).
• Help the delivery team reach billable targets by assisting with breaking through project blockers.
• Help facilitate change orders and project extensions when in-flight projects call for it.
• Help drive alignment where there are technical mesh points between other 3Cloud practice areas by providing technical oversight and direction.
• Keep apprised of the latest technologies and how they may impact existing 3Cloud offerings.
• Have obtained the AZ-305 Cloud Architect certification.

Business Development Leadership

• Gain exposure to other 3Cloud offerings in other practice areas to help position in existing infrastructure engagements.
• Identify new Cloud Infrastructure & Security solution opportunities and raise them up.
• 3Cloud Community leadership and support: Lead and guide the infrastructure offerings committees that define and drive forward standard offerings for our practice.

Lever Factors That Help Grow Our Business

• Reach trusted advisor within multiple accounts, which then helps support the growth of existing customer accounts in a ‘Land & Expand’ approach, helping us keep our people billing on engagements where we are doing awesome work.
• Lead and guide multiple engagements that help enable our infrastructure team to scale out.
• Help support teammates with unblocking engagements and remediating possible escalations before they happen.
• Create reusable artifacts and content that enable our team members to bill their time to our clients.

Full-time employment Remote in the Philippines.

At this time, we cannot sponsor applicants for work visas.