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Job Summary:
Huntington National Bank is seeking a Cloud Engineering Manager to provide technical leadership and people management for a team responsible for cloud platform design and operation. The role involves hands-on cloud architecture expertise and partnerships with application teams to ensure cloud solutions align with organizational standards.
Responsibilities:
• Define and evolve cloud architecture standards, patterns, and reference implementations across public, private, and hybrid environments.
• Lead the design and review of cloud‑native solutions across IaaS, PaaS, and containerized platforms.
• Ensure platforms and applications are designed for high availability, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert for cloud networking, provisioning, automation, and platform services.
• Evaluate new cloud services, tools, and architectural approaches, providing clear recommendations with trade‑offs.
• Lead the adoption and governance of Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Drive DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security scanning, and policy‑as‑code.
• Ensure secure handling of credentials, certificates, encryption, and key rotation.
• Partner with security teams to embed risk‑based controls and compliance into cloud platforms.
• Partner with risk, security, compliance, and audit teams to support internal and external exams.
• Guide cost‑efficient cloud usage, including monitoring, optimization, and financial transparency.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of cloud platform and Site Reliability engineers.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Provide coaching, career development guidance, and regular performance feedback.
• Build and maintain a high‑performing, collaborative engineering team.
• Align cloud engineering initiatives with enterprise architecture and business strategy.
• Partner with application, product, and infrastructure teams to support mergers, migrations, modernization, and new product delivery.
• Communicate architectural decisions, standards, and roadmaps clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to the organization’s long‑term cloud vision and platform roadmap.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience across multiple IT disciplines such as cloud architecture, application development, infrastructure, or operations.
• Hands‑on experience designing and operating workloads on at least one major public cloud platform.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud provisioning.
• Design and governance of reusable IaC modules published via private registries and consumed through CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience leading or contributing to DevSecOps toolchains and practices.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, and access management.
• Proven ability to lead teams and influence across organizational boundaries.
Preferred:
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the primary cloud provider.
• Terraform or OpenTofu as the standard Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools.
• Harness Software Delivery Platform used for CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning.
• GitHub as the primary source code repository.
• Azure DevOps Services (ADO) boards, wiki, etc.
• Cloud architecture or engineering certifications.
• Experience in regulated or financial‑services environments.
• Knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and serverless architectures.
• Experience with application and infrastructure monitoring and observability tools.
• Background in application modernization, migration strategies, or platform engineering.
• Prior experience as a technical lead or engineering manager.
Company:
Huntington National Bank offers consumer, small business, and commercial banking, mortgages, wealth, and insurance services. It is a sub-organization of Huntington Distribution Finance. Founded in 1866, the company is headquartered in Columbus, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.