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What you'll do:

What we are looking for:

• Manage cloud team, both Azure and AWS environments.
• Manage vendors and own services end to end
• Develop roadmaps for each service with emphasis on security, finops, and operational efficiencies
• Work on a new L2 strategy in partnership with infrastructure and operations
• Create a infrastructure storage team with focus in Azure cloud
• Establish practices to enhance security compliance, FinOps opportunities, Segregation of duties, server build and decommission process, and other SOP and Audit items.
• Act as a liaison between infrastructure and application teams.
• Provide assistance to the Engineers with delivery, tech support, troubleshooting of Azure and AWS operating systems and application software, including, but not limited to, MS Windows, Azure and AWS services, Linux environments.
• Develop a six and twelve month roadmap for cloud activities.
• Work with teams to streamline project delivery pipelines, leveraging infrastructure as code and Azure DevOps.
• Create and modify SOPs, conduct monthly reviews on audit items and evidence to ensure accuracy.
• Create and maintain the Cloud Engineering Standards working with Enterprise Architecture.
• Responsible for server software installation and maintaining server standards.
• Accountable for golden OS server build template and images for AWS and Azure.
• Ensures documentation development and maintenance
• Develop risk-based mitigation strategies for delivery
• Participate with DR and BCD activities
• Producing, publishing, and distributing operational reports pertaining to the status of products and vulnerabilities
• Ensure meeting notes are kept and progress is well documented
• Acting as a liaison with various departments, management, and staff to coordinate remediation efforts and mitigate risk
• Ability to review, analyze, and evaluate availability and vulnerability management reports
• Ability to collaborate extensively with engineering teams to help them understand their vulnerabilities and assist them to develop remediation and mitigation strategies.
• Implement security improvements by assessing current situation, evaluating trends, and anticipating requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelors in Computer Science, mathematics, or related field
• Excellent written and verbal communication; must be able to communicate across business line and skill level
• Strong understanding of cloud, server, middleware, and network services, and vulnerabilities.
• Extensive knowledge of Cloud operations for container management, vulnerability and image deployments
• Knowledge of migration to the cloud
• Extensive knowledge working with L1 and L2 support managing a 24x7 environment
• Experience with executive level reporting
• Knowledge of applications, interfaces with users externally and internally.
• Ability to successfully manage a group of Cloud Engineers and stakeholders
• Knowledge of Active Directory and Group Policy
• Strong customer service and excellent communication skills along with the ability to mentor others in a team environment
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability
• Self-starter with the ability to independently resolve problems
• Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment with short timelines
• Customer-centric and Service minded.
• Ability to work effectively independently and in a team-oriented environment.

Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

Western Alliance Bancorporation