VP, Cloud & Systems Engineering — AI-Driven Infra Leader

Moody; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 151,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Parental leave

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Accident insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Moody's in Charlotte, NC is seeking a VP Mgr-Systems Engineering to lead the Cloud Services Engineering team, transforming infrastructure, automating service delivery, and modernizing virtualization, OS, and container platforms.

You will guide a global team, oversee VMware to Nutanix AHV migration, evaluate new technologies, ensure availability, security, and audit readiness, and partner with workload teams to align workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Strong virtualization and cloud infrastructure experience across Linux and Windows environments.
• Experience leading a high-performing technical engineering team as a technical engineering manager (not a pure people manager).

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cloud Services Engineering team to transform infrastructure, automate service delivery, and modernize Moody's virtualization, operating system, and container platforms.
• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of senior engineers across virtualization, operating system, and container disciplines.
• Guide the multi-year migration from VMware to Nutanix AHV as the primary hypervisor platform, owning end-to-end execution across thousands of production machines.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and make recommendations based on cost, risk, and scalability to support Moody's hybrid cloud strategy.
• Ensure availability, performance, and security of virtualization, operating system, and container platforms across two US datacenters and 15+ remote sites globally.
• Oversee patching, upgrades, hardware refreshes, and capacity planning, and drive root-cause analysis and remediation for incidents and outages.
• Promote infrastructure automation and self-service using tools such as PowerCLI, Ansible, Terraform, Nutanix Cloud Manager, or equivalent technologies.
• Partner with senior stakeholders in storage, network, cloud, security, and application teams to align platform capabilities with workload needs.
• Establish and maintain operational metrics, dashboards, and reporting, and support audit, risk, and compliance activities as required.

Skills

Virtualization engineering

Cloud environments

Technical engineering manager

VMware/Nutanix AHV

Kubernetes

Automation & IaC

AI concepts

Linux (RHEL)

Windows Server

Self-service IT delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

PowerCLI

Ansible

Terraform

Nutanix Cloud Manager

VMware

Job description

Moody's in Charlotte, NC is seeking a VP Mgr-Systems Engineering to lead the Cloud Services Engineering team, transforming infrastructure, automating service delivery, and modernizing virtualization, OS, and container platforms.

You will guide a global team, oversee VMware to Nutanix AHV migration, evaluate new technologies, ensure availability, security, and audit readiness, and partner with workload teams to align workloads.