Remote Applications Engineering Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Job Summary

The Cloud Engineering Manager provides technical leadership and people management for a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platforms. This role combines hands‑on cloud architecture expertise, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps practices with strong coaching, mentoring, and delivery leadership.

The Cloud Engineering Manager partners closely with application teams, security, and enterprise architecture to ensure cloud solutions align with organizational standards, target‑state architecture, and business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• 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.

Cloud Engineering & DevSecOps

• 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.

People Management & Mentorship

• 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.

Strategy & Collaboration

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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 Qualifications

• 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.

What Success Looks Like

• Cloud platforms are reliable, secure, scalable, and easy for application teams to consume.
• Engineering teams deliver faster through automation and standardized patterns.
• Cloud costs, security posture, and operational health are transparent and well‑managed.
• Engineers are growing, engaged, and aligned with the organization’s cloud strategy.

Exempt Status: (Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)

Workplace Type:

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type

Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds:  in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Compensation Range:

The compensation range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and education.  Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan.  In addition, Huntington provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plan, paid leave programs, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO). 

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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