Sr. Cloud Operations Manager

Crane Worldwide Logistics; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly Incentive Plan

Paid Time Off (17 days/year)

Excellent Medical/Dental/Vision

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Recognition & Rewards

Volunteer Time

Employee Discounts

Wellness Incentives

Job summary

Crane Worldwide Logistics is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer/Lead to manage a team of cloud engineers responsible for the global cloud platform and infrastructure. You will drive observability, monitoring, automation, and reliability across multi-cloud environments.

The role emphasizes cost optimization, security collaboration, and IaC with Terraform. Candidates should have 8+ years in cloud/virtualization and 4+ years in a lead role, plus a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience administering cloud and virtualization technology.
• 4+ years of experience in a senior or lead role.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required.

Responsibilities

• Manage team of Cloud Engineers responsible for global cloud platform and infrastructure activities.
• Ensure observability, monitoring, and alerting of cloud platforms and services.
• Lead automation and repeatable deployments across multi-cloud environments.
• Optimize systems for cost, performance, and reliability.
• Support DevOps practices across cloud technology landscape.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Observability

DevOps

SRE mindset

IaC (Terraform)

Cost optimization

Stakeholder management

Communication

Documentation

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Virtualization environments

Job description

• Mange team of Cloud Engineers responsible for all global operational cloud platform and infrastructure activities.
• Responsible for ensuring observability, monitoring, and alerting of cloud platforms and services.
• Experience implementing IaaS and SaaS cloud solutions across multiple cloud providers.
• Ensure repeatability by automating deployments and best practices
• Optimize existing systems for cost, performance, and reliability
• Engage in and support DevOps practices across the cloud technology landscape (including involvement with other technology development/platform/admin groups)
• Exhibit a Site Reliability Engineering mindset when engaging with or developing reliability and incident response practices
• Influence application and security architecture and design across multi and hybrid cloud platforms
• Peer-reviewing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, or similar)
• Excellent customer service, communication, and documentation skills
• Relationship management with tech and business stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to solve complex technical problems
• Architect solutions based on stakeholder requirements
• Other duties as assigned

Other Skills and Abilities

• Self-starter attitude with ability to troubleshoot and conduct own research on solutions.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Proven working experience in cloud and virtualization environments.
• High attention to detail, maintaining accuracy in all managed and implemented solutions.
• Ability to step outside normal role to fix issues that may not directly be related to just technology.
• Organizational and project management skills.

Education and Experience

• 8+ years of experience administering cloud and virtualization technology
• 4+ years of experience in a senior or lead role
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required

Physical Requirements

• Job may require extended sitting or standing, use of standard office equipment
• Job requires the ability to use vision, adjust focus and work on a standard computer screen
• Use of audio-visual equipment is required

Professional Certification

• Project Management certification preferred
• Professional certification may be required in some cases

WHY SHOULD YOU WORK FOR CRANE?

At Crane, we believe in providing our employees with excellent benefits at a Great Place to Work.

We offer:

• Quarterly Incentive Plan
• 136 hours of Paid Time Off which equals 17 days for the year, that can be used for Sick Time or for Personal Use
• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement for education related to your job
• Employee Recognition and Rewards Program
• Paid Volunteer Time to support a cause that is close to your heart and contributes to our communities
• Employee Discounts
• Wellness Incentives that can go up to $100 per year for completing challenges, in addition to a discount on contribution rates

Come join the leader in logistics and take your career in the right direction.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

This position requires the final candidate to successfully pass an E-Verify Check.

Company benefits are contingent upon meeting eligibility requirements and plan conditions.

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