Manager, Cloud Engineering

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

The Cloud Services team is looking for a manager with experience in cloud and infrastructure systems to join our IT team at Ares Management. The IT team consists of over 200 team members globally and is responsible for the firm’s technology landscape. The Cloud Services team within IT oversees and manages Ares’ cloud infrastructure, focusing on championing new solutions, establishing best practices and driving modern technology adoption.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing the cloud services group in addition to solutioning, implementing and automating systems and services with an emphasis on cloud technologies. The role requires expert understanding of cloud, hybrid and on-premise architectures and the corresponding infrastructure components.

Reporting relationships

Reports to:  Vice President, Cloud Services and DevOps

Primary functions and essential responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Directly manage the team responsible for platforms, technologies and processes owned and supported by the Cloud Services team

• Design multi-region, cloud focused solutions on Azure leveraging DevOps tools and methodologies to modernize legacy systems and infrastructure

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and design secure cloud solutions

• Embrace IaC principles to manage and provision Azure resources such as virtual machines, containers, storage, firewalls

• Define infrastructure using tools like Terraform or Azure Resource Manager templates and leverage CI/CD for implementation

• Contribute as a technical SME to junior team members, external stakeholders and provide L3 support as-needed

• Manage and troubleshoot Azure systems and applications using administration tools and scripts

• Harden virtual machines, networks, and storage solutions to withstand cyber threats

• Design and enforce IAM policies, roles, and permissions within Azure AD and ensure secure access to Azure resources for users, applications and services

• Optimize and secure the Azure infrastructure using best practices and policies

• Monitor Azure resources for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency

• Optimize virtual machine sizes, storage configurations, and network throughput while swiftly addressing technical issues and troubleshooting infrastructure-related problems

• Develop automation processes leveraging PowerShell, Python and other scripting utilities

• Identify technology gaps, recommend architecture/product changes to increase stability and reliability

• Translate business requirements into functional and technical details and assist in formulating solutions

• Provide infrastructure systems support and perform root cause analysis of issues

• Identify opportunities to improve business processes; recommending solutions to improve scalability, redundancy, and operational efficiency

• Maintain Jira tasks, Confluence documentation and lead team stand-ups

• Document architectural standards and processes around those standards

Qualifications

Experience Required:  

• 10+ years of total experience as an enterprise IT infrastructure engineer

• 5+ years of Azure experience designing and supporting large scale ecosystems

• 5+ years of directly managing cloud-focused team members

• Experience with migrating on-premises workloads to Microsoft Azure

• Experience with Azure Landing Zone architecture

• Experience with infrastructure Configuration tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)

• Scripting languages required: PowerShell and/or Python

• Experience with Identity Solutions such as Microsoft Active Directory, Azure AD and OKTA

• Experience with Windows Server and Linux operating systems

• GIT basics and branching strategies

• Experience with Terraform and AKS

• Knowledge of cloud security controls inclu