Mgr. Cloud Strategy

OP RaaS; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 117,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

OP RaaS is seeking a senior cloud leader to steer enterprise cloud adoption and planning, ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-effective platforms for sustainable growth and resilience.

The role leads a team of cloud architects and engineers, defines reference architectures, and collaborates across product and engineering to drive roadmaps, governance, and standardized services. Travel is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in management information science, information technology, computer science, engineering, or related field
• Seven (7) years of experience in engineering, architecture, or related technology leadership roles
• Proven expertise evaluating and recommending technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns
• Strong knowledge of enterprise domains including computer, storage, network, and cloud operations
• Familiarity with vendor contract evaluation, negotiation, and management
• Proven experience developing infrastructure standards and capacity planning models
• Strong communication and influencing skills to guide senior leaders and infrastructure teams effectively

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of cloud architects and engineers
• Define and maintain cloud reference architectures and patterns with security, networking, and cost controls
• Develop and govern a cloud service catalog and guardrails for standardized services
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and vendor solutions to influence roadmaps
• Partner with Cloud Platform Engineering to convert designs into IaC modules and CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with Cloud Operations & Observability to integrate runbooks and monitoring
• Lead cross-functional design reviews and governance for alignment with strategy
• Coach product and engineering teams on using reference architectures and guardrails
• Comply with laws, regulations, and company policies
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication

Cloud architecture

Vendor evaluation

Cost controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree in MIS/IT/CS/Engineering or related field

Job description

Job Description

POSITION OVERVIEW

Provides strategic direction for enterprise cloud adoption and planning, ensuring technology investments deliver secure, scalable and cost-effective platforms that enable long-term business growth and operational resilience

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage, lead, and develop a team of high-performing cloud architects and engineers fostering capability growth and continuous improvement
• Define and maintain cloud reference architectures and patterns that embed security, networking, identity, cost controls, and compliance standards.
• Develop and govern a cloud service catalog and guardrails to standardize approved services, configurations, and usage across the enterprise.
• Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and vendor solutions to recommend adoption paths and influence platform roadmaps.
• Partner with Cloud Platform Engineering to convert reference designs into production-ready Infrastructure as Code modules and CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with Cloud Operations & Observability to ensure runbooks, monitoring, and operability requirements are integrated into architecture designs.
• Lead cross-functional design reviews and governance processes to ensure cloud architectures align with enterprise priorities and long-term strategy.
• Coach and enable product and engineering teams on implementing reference architectures and adopting approved modules and guardrails.
• Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Disclaimer

This job description is general in nature and is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in management information science, information technology, computer science, engineering, or related field
• Seven (7) years of experience in engineering, architecture, or related technology leadership roles.
• Proven expertise evaluating and recommending technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise domains including computer, storage, network, and cloud operations.
• Familiarity with vendor contract evaluation, negotiation, and management.
• Proven experience developing infrastructure standards and capacity planning models.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to guide senior leaders and infrastructure teams effectively.

JOB CONDITIONS

Some travel required

Preferred Skills/Knowledge

Demonstrated ability to build and lead teams that evaluate, compare, and recommend technology platforms and tools with clear, data-driven decision frameworks. Strong experience establishing and managing architecture standards, patterns, and reusable modules (Infrastructure as Code preferred). Expertise in technology evaluation processes, including proof-of-concept design, vendor assessment, and total cost/value analysis. Excellent communication with the ability to translate complex technical decisions into business impact

Pay Transparency

The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location(s). If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the minimum and maximum range for all levels. Actual pay is determined by job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, such as experience, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment. Eligible employees offered health, vision, dental, life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance, employee assistance program, personal/sick paid time, 401(k) retirement savings plan, bonus potential, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, 2 weeks paid parental leave, paid bereavement, employee discounts, 6.67-13.34 hours vacation per month based on service time, 8 paid holidays.

Pay Range: $116,600.00 - $204,050.00 per year

Colorado Pay Ranges: Colorado Springs, Grand Junction $116,600 - $204,050; Henderson, Mead $116,600 - $204,050; Gypsum $116,600 - $204,050

Illinois Pay Ranges: Effingham, Kankakee, Lincoln, Quincy, Rockford, Aurora $116,600 - $204,050; Bolingbrook, Chicago Heights, Des Plaines, Elmhurst, Forest View, Joliet, Schaumburg, Summit-Argo, Zion $116,600 - $204,050

New York Pay Ranges: Plattsburgh, Buffalo, Watertown, North Chili, East Syracuse, Nichols $116,600 - $204,050; Bethpage, Montgomery, West Babylon $116,600 - $204,050

New Jersey Job Postings: $116,600.00 - $160,325.00 per year This compensation range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting pay range in NJ. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay is determined by experience relative to the job, market level, specific location and other job-related factors permitted by law. Regular full & part-time employees (who complete 91 days of employment and work a minimum average of 12 hours per week) are eligible to enroll in medical, dental, and/or vision coverage, tuition reimbursement. Full/part-time employees who are age 21 are eligible for 401(k) after one month of employment.