Cloud Engineer Manager

Title: Cloud Engineer Manager

State Role Title: 39114

Hiring Range: Up to $165,000

Pay Band: 7

Agency: Dept Behavioral Health/Develop

Location: Central Office

Agency Website: www.dbhds.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) Developmental Services' Office of Information Services and Technology (IS&T) is dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge cloud technologies to enhance our operational efficiency and provide top-tier services to our users. IS&T is seeking a highly skilled and experienced IT professional to serve as a Cloud Engineer Manager. This role is critical to ensuring the successful implementation, maintenance, and scaling of the DBHDS cloud infrastructure. This position will lead the cloud engineering team, partner with business units to develop cloud application management processes and procedures in support of their mission, drive data-centric decision-making and process support across all business units to achieve enterprise goals, and implement strategies for application engineering processes, best practices, and standards.

Additional Responsibilities include:
• Providing expertise in Application management principles for a modern cloud application ecosystem, and leading staff skill alignment on the new modern cloud data ecosystem.
• Participating in change control and governance processes, and creating value through IT governance and enterprise information policy aligned with a modern cloud ecosystem.
• Diving business engagement for the broader use of modern technologies on the cloud (e.g., AWS).
• Providing technical leadership and expertise for project initiatives and business requests on-prem and in the cloud, and championing cloud engineering/development practices.
• Participating in the technical implementation and deployment phases of business intelligence and system integration projects.
• Promoting technology literacy through appropriate tool usage and creating documentation on system operational and user procedures.
• Reviewing and consolidating IT business plans, budgets, and forecasting.
• Collaborating with Architecture to design system components, define current and future states, and provide guidance for IT and data management.
• Serving as a point of contact for application design, context, and value within the enterprise, and supporting quality and process improvement efforts and frameworks.
• Leading contract management for resources supporting enterprise applications, and analyzing requirements and providing insight to stakeholders.
• Enabling transformation of DBHDS processes across all business units by implementing best practices in application delivery.
• Identifying opportunities for cost reductions and maintaining the IT budget.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience managing and leading a team.
• Experience in application development and engineering (e.g., Serverless application, CICD).
• IT skills across on-prem and cloud technology (preferably AWS).
• Engineering skills with native services (preferably AWS).
• Experience in database management (preferably Snowflake, AWS Native, RDS).
• Experience in building products in a modern ecosystem (preferably AWS Cloud) and scripting (preferably Python/Node.js, React).
• Experience and expertise in major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Strong understanding of networking and Cloud /FinOps management.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in cloud cybersecurity, including implementing and managing security measures to protect cloud infrastructure and data.
• Refined communication, interpersonal, and training skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across diverse teams.
• Strong understanding of EA/IT governance, privacy, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience designing and implementing highly scalable, fault-tolerant solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a track record of addressing complex IT challenges effectively.

Additional Considerations

• Experience in IT and business/industry field.
• Experience in cloud engineering or related roles.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect)

DBHDS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, p