Cloud Engineering Manager

Lirio is a technology/software company that provides expertise in a variety of behavioral science domains (e.g., behavioral economics, social psychology, public health), data science, and machine learning to drive consumer engagement, close gaps in preventive and chronic care, and promote health and well-being across an individual’s lifespan. Lirio’s behavior change AI platform unites behavioral science with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver Precision Nudging health interventions. Precision Nudging is the application of behavioral science to health interventions personalized by AI to each individual that overcome barriers to action at the right time and place for scalable, behavior change. 

This is a remote role with the opportunity to be hybrid if located in Tennessee. All applicants must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship. All applicants much reside full time within the US.

Position Summary 

Lirio is offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced cloud engineering manager skilled in people leadership, infrastructure, supporting and contributing to software engineering, technical leadership, solutions architecture, distributed systems, and cloud-native and cloud-agnostic technologies to join us in meeting the challenge to improve health for everyone and develop, maintain, and improve both our SaaS product cloud infrastructure and the infrastructure components of our client deployable enterprise capability for our Kubernetes-based behavior change AI platform. This is a chance to lead a cloud team and contribute to Lirio’s core platform, SaaS product, and enterprise solution, and work with innovative infrastructure, multiple cloud providers, and cloud-agnostic technologies and change lives by improving health. 

The Cloud Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the cloud engineering organization, serving as both technical subject matter expert and supervisor with respect to both cloud development and cloud support activities.  This role helps to define cloud architecture, cloud engineering, automation, and tooling support for Lirio applications, products, and services, assures end to end support to developers and data scientists for computing platforms and resources, and offers guidance in both tooling and team integrations to mitigate risks and enhance innovation. This role serves as a mentor for other Cloud Engineers on the team. The Cloud Engineering Manager also works closely with the CTO and Chief Architect to shape the cloud engineering strategy with respect to the Lirio plan for growth and the product roadmap. 

To succeed in this role, the Cloud Engineering Manager will need Principal level expert technical experience with infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, Kafka, and cloud platform providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), supporting customers deploying software to the cloud, and will need experience supporting distributed systems using Python or Java technology stacks. This coupled with strong people leadership skills. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

Cloud Engineering Strategy and Implementation (25%) 

• Works with the CTO to shape the cloud engineering strategy for Lirio, including integrating with the product vision, and supporting growth strategies that impact cloud engineering and operations  
• Collaborates internally and externally to understand cloud engineering requirements for the Lirio platform across its implementations and deployments
• Serves as a thought leader in cloud engineering and operations at Lirio
• Align cloud infrastructure with HITRUST & SOC2 compliance 

Management (20%) 

• Serve as a supervisor, mentor, and subject matter expert for the Cloud Engineers at Lirio
• Provide coaching/mentoring to direct reports on cloud engineering mindset, skills and expertise  
• Assure career development opportunities and appropriate training for direct reports 

Cloud Engineering Development (35%) 

• Be a technical leader in cloud engineering development efforts, assuring timely delivery of cloud engineering capabilities aligned with the product roadmap
• Support the Chief Architect in enhancing Lirio’s platform archi