Description :

AllCloud is seeking an experienced and visionary AWS Cloud Operations Manager with deep AWS expertise and strong people-management capabilities. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines technical ownership with team leadership.

You will be responsible for defining cloud operational strategy, driving execution excellence, and managing a multi-tier CloudOps team. As the CloudOps Lead, you will own the end-to-end operational excellence of AWS environmentsensuring reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.

You will establish automated guardrails, enable 24/7 operations, and leverage AI-driven insights to proactively manage cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Cloud engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and collaboration.

- Provide technical oversight and architectural guidance across all projects, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable, and secure.

- Act as the primary technical point of contact for key client engagements, translating complex business requirements into actionable technical roadmaps.

- Drive the strategic direction of the teams technical capabilities

- Integrate and optimize AWS services including : CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, AWS Config, Lambda, and AI/ML services

Design and implement automated guardrails for :

- Configuration drift detection

- Security and compliance enforcement

- Cost controls and anomaly detection

- Ensure governance across multi-account AWS environments

- Drive infrastructure observability, proactive alerting, and automated remediation

- Enable event-driven and self-healing cloud operations

- Define and own SLAs, SLOs, error budgets, and operational KPIs

- Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews

- Align CloudOps practices with SRE and DevOps principles to reduce toil.

- Partner with DevOps, Security, Architecture, and Engineering teams on cloud strategy and governance

- Lead continuous improvement initiatives using AIOps, analytics, and automation

- Drive operational maturity, standardization, and documentation

- Lead, mentor, and scale CloudOps L1/L2/L3 teams supporting 24/7 cloud operations

- Define operating models, runbooks, escalation paths, and on-call practices

- Act as the primary decision-maker for operational trade-offs and risk mitigation

Required Skills & Experience :

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

- 8+ years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and optimizing AWS cloud environments

- Proven experience in a technical leadership or people-management role

- Deep expertise in AWS services including : EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS

- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)

- Solid understanding of AWS security, networking, identity, and access management

- Hands-on experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices

- Ability to make sound technical decisions under ambiguity and competing priorities

- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills

- AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent)

- Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, serverless, and containers

- Experience working in start-up or fast-paced product environments

- Contributions to the cloud community (blogs, talks, open-source, forums)

- Willingness to support teams and customers across multiple time zones

Signs you may be a great fit :

- Impact: Play a pivotal role in shaping a rapidly growing venture studio.

- Culture: Thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment that values creativity and ownership.

- Growth: Access professional development opportunities and mentorship.

- Benefits: Competitive salary, health/wellness packages, and flexible work options