Lead Cloud Services & MLOps Teams (Remote)

EdgeConneX; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

EdgeConneX is seeking a Manager, Cloud Services to lead a lean team of DevOps, MLOps, and DataOps engineers. As a player-coach, you will guide architecture, drive IaC, CI/CD, and cloud platform operations across Azure, AWS, and GCP, while staying hands-on with code reviews and pipeline optimization.

You will mentor staff, define standards, and partner with security, product engineering, and data teams to deliver reliable cloud services for edge-focused customers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cloud, DevOps, platform, or data/ML engineering, with at least 2 years leading or managing engineers.
• Expert, hands-on Terraform experience at scale.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in both Azure and AWS (networking, RBAC, Key Vault, compute); familiarity with GCP.
• Proven experience with cloud migrations and multi-cloud setups across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Production experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions strongly preferred) and Git-based PR workflows.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience (EKS and AKS) and GitOps delivery with ArgoCD or Flux.
• Working knowledge across DevOps, MLOps, DataOps and ability to lead engineers.
• Experience with enterprise identity and SSO (Entra ID, SAML, SCIM, OIDC).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
• Familiarity with Windows Server and Linux.
• Excellent communication and mentoring abilities.
• Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development and automation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and mentor a small team of DevOps, MLOps, and DataOps engineers.
• Translate vision into execution by defining procedures, standards, and practices.
• Grow the team’s capability through coaching, code review, hiring input, and career development.
• Coordinate across DevOps, MLOps, and DataOps to keep priorities, tooling, and standards aligned.
• Own delivery for your teams' commitments: planning, tracking in Jira, and reporting progress to leadership.
• Partner with enterprise technology, product engineering, security, and data teams as a technical leader.
• Hands-on engineering as an expert IC.
• Evolve IaC with Terraform (Azure Verified Modules) and PR-based workflows.
• Lead CI/CD in GitHub Enterprise and migrate from Azure DevOps.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS/AKS) with GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux).
• Drive cloud governance automation across Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Create and maintain Azure Enterprise Applications and Entra ID SSO integration.
• Build and operate the MLOps platform with MLflow, Kubeflow, or Azure ML.
• Design MCP servers and AI tooling to enable AI-assisted development.
• Support DataOps: ETL/ELT, Synapse, Power BI, Liquibase/Atlas migrations.
• Provide hands-on support to enterprise tech on infra and identity.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Platform engineering

Data/ML engineering

Team leadership

Tools

Terraform

Azure

AWS

GCP

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

ArgoCD/Flux

Entra ID

Job description

EdgeConneX is seeking a Manager, Cloud Services to lead a lean team of DevOps, MLOps, and DataOps engineers. As a player-coach, you will guide architecture, drive IaC, CI/CD, and cloud platform operations across Azure, AWS, and GCP, while staying hands-on with code reviews and pipeline optimization.

You will mentor staff, define standards, and partner with security, product engineering, and data teams to deliver reliable cloud services for edge-focused customers.