Principal Manager, Cloud Engineering

Promevo; United States; Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Promevo, a Google Premier Partner, seeks a Principal Manager, Cloud Engineering to lead and scale a high‑performing technical delivery team. You will bridge strategy and hands-on delivery, champion modern cloud practices and AI-focused infrastructure, and mentor engineers while guiding enterprise projects with senior-level oversight.

You will drive architecture reviews, leverage Vertex AI and Gen AI literacy, and collaborate with PMO on resource planning and governance, ensuring delivery

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading technical delivery teams.
• Ability to drive AI/ML modern infrastructure programs.
• Strong vision for cloud engineering and enterprise-grade architecture.

Responsibilities

• Provide team mentorship and strategic engineering oversight.
• Serve as primary technical escalation point for complex infra and data problems.
• Lead architecture reviews, scoping, and advisory services for enterprise accounts.
• Drive AI-first delivery patterns and repeatable IP for the engineering org.

Skills

Team leadership

Strategic delivery

Technical governance

AI First / Augmented SDLC

Tools

Vertex AI

MLOps

Google Cloud

Job description

Promevo, LLC was founded in 2001 by a group of experienced systems integration, application development, and systems administration specialists in Cincinnati, OH.

We are Promevo!

The name Promevo is derived from the Latin words promoveo, meaning \"to move ahead\" and promereo, meaning \"to earn\". It’s our name, but it’s also our purpose. We move clients ahead in technology, enabling their competitive advantage and we earn their trust with our technical excellence and dedication to their success. We believe that digital solutions shouldn’t be something our clients need to adapt to, instead we make digital solutions adapt to client needs.

Promevo is a Google Premier Partner for Google Workspace, Google Cloud, and Google Chrome, specializing in helping businesses harness the power of Google and the opportunities of AI. From technical support and implementation to expert consulting and custom solutions like gPanel, we empower organizations to optimize operations and accelerate growth in the AI era.

In addition to Google technology, Promevo's SaaS Platform (gPanel) provides our clients with a centralized user management interface providing administrators with visibility and control over all of their users' data and settings with its robust suite of security features. We walk alongside our clients to help them achieve their digital transformation and infrastructure goals by providing Professional Services such as migrations, custom app development, fast track deployments, and white glove services.

We are seeking a Principal Manager, Cloud Engineering to lead, scale, and inspire our elite technical delivery team. In this high-visibility, hybrid “player-coach” role, you will bridge the gap between high-level technical strategy and daily operational execution. You will champion modern cloud practices and AI-driven infrastructure, guiding our engineering vision while staying hands‑on with high‑impact project delivery. You will be responsible for team mentorship, strategic engineering oversight, and serving as the primary technical escalation point for our enterprise clients.

By joining the Promevo Team, you will find that our company culture is at the heart of our success. Promevo’s core values center around building trust, investing in care of each other, owning our work, respecting our differences, and engaging in positive attitudes. By living out these values each day, we build supportive teams that nurture development and growth, both individually and professionally.

Our Promevo team members are committed to living out the core values below

• Build and Extend Trust – Show respect and listen. Do what you say you will do. Be transparent and dependable.
• Keep it Human – Invest in relationships. Show empathy. Do right by others. Take care of yourself, your family, and each other.
• Own It – Become an expert in your role. Own the outcome. Finish what you start. Answer for the results.
• Differences Make Us Stronger – Respect Differences. Seek to include different perspectives. Learn from each other.
• Attitude is Contagious – Be fully engaged. Take pride in what you do. Spread your positivity. Courage. Energy. Passion. Purpose.

Duties and Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of technical professionals, including Principal Cloud Architects, Systems Architects, Software Engineers (FE/BE), and Cloud Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Foster a culture of continuous development by conducting semi-annual individual development discussions and establishing quarterly learning objectives centered on AI-upskilling and Gen AI literacy.

Strategic Delivery

• Serve in a 'player-coach' capacity, balancing team leadership with hands‑on technical contribution. You will meet a scaled, manager-level billable delivery target, focusing on high-level architecture reviews, complex scoping, and strategic technical advisory, while ensuring your team remains optimally deployed.
• Helps support utilization targets for themselves and team members by driving high-value, high-impact technical discoveries; leverages delivery time to uncover expansion or upsell opportunities within enterprise accounts; serves as a recognized industry expert on the Google Cloud ecosystem.

Technical Governance

• Guide the team in designing and implementing modern AI infrastructure pipelines, including LLM integration patterns, data orchestration layers, and secure enterprise AI frameworks.
• Pioneers the creation of repeatable intellectual property, automated accelerators, or code repositories that reduce delivery time for the entire engineering organization; positions Promevo at the forefront of Google Cloud innovation through cutting-edge practice development.
• Oversee engineering resource allocation and capacity planning, partnering closely with the PMO to ensure the right technical talent is assigned to the right projects at the right time.
• Govern and elevate engineering standards, DevOps methodologies, code quality, and architectural review processes across full-stack application and cloud infrastructure delivery.
• AI First/Augmented SDLC - Guides teams to build intelligent, AI-driven Google Cloud infrastructure (utilizing Vertex AI, advanced MLOps pipelines, and data analytics architectures) alongside traditional cloud-native engineering.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for complex infrastructure, application modernization, and data engineering challenges. Anticipates and mitigates technical risks before they impact the client relationship; transforms high-friction escalation scenarios into long-term strategic wins, strengthening the firm's partnership with the enterprise accounts.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects/Pre-Sales to scope complex technical engagements, validate engineering hours, and ensure accurate pre-sales technical feasibility.
• Drive the professional development, technical certification pathways (specifically scaling Google Cloud and AI specializations), and performance evaluation metrics for the engineering team.
• Identify and advocate for internal automation, reusable infrastructure-as