Sr. Director, Cloud

SVB Financial
Virginiaremote, VA
28 Nov 2024

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BE PART OF A BANK LIKE NO OTHER.

When you work with the world's most innovative companies, you know you're making a difference.

Our clients are the game changers, leaders and investors who fuel the global innovation economy. They're the businesses behind the next medical breakthroughs. And the visionaries whose new technologies could transform the way people live and work.

They come to SVB for our expertise, deep network and nearly forty years of experience in the industries we serve, and to partner with diverse teams of passionate, enterprising SVBers, dedicated to an inclusive approach to helping them grow and succeed at every stage of their business.

Join us at SVB and be part of bringing our clients' world-changing ideas to life. At SVB, we have the opportunity to grow and collectively make an impact by supporting the innovative clients and communities SVB serves. We pride ourselves in having both a diverse client roster and an equally diverse and inclusive organization. And we work diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services, to apply.

Job Description Sr. Director - Cloud Engineering

Job Description

Cloud Engineering Leader Responsibilities

BE PART OF A BANK LIKE NO OTHER. When you work with the world's most innovative companies, you know you're making a difference. Our clients are the game changers, leaders and investors who fuel the global innovation economy. They're the businesses behind the next medical breakthroughs. And the visionaries whose new technologies could transform the way people live and work. They come to SVB for our expertise, deep network and 30+ years of experience in the industries we serve, and to partner with diverse teams of passionate, enterprising SVBers , dedicated to an inclusive approach to helping them grow and succeed at every stage of their business. Join us at SVB and be part of bringing our clients' world-changing ideas to life. At SVB, we have the opportunity to grow and collectively make an impact by supporting the innovative clients and communities SVB serves. We pride ourselves in having both a diverse client roster and an equally diverse and inclusive organization. And we work diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services, to apply.

Job Description Senior Director, Cloud Engineering

Silicon Valley Bank serves some of the most innovative companies in the world. Our clients are forward thinkers. True believers. Optimists. Inspired by them, we're changing the face of banking. Our clients have redefined products in many areas of the global economy, and every day we power their ability to do so. And we need leaders with the same can-do attitude as our clients. We're looking for creative thinkers who want to challenge the status quo and create a truly seamless digital banking experience on a global scale.

The Senior Director of Cloud Engineering is a key strategic position that will lead and manage the Cloud Technology Excellence teams in developing a world-class cloud foundation which will provide capabilities to migrate large-scale on-prem applications and enable the development of new cloud native applications in a public cloud while operating in a regulated financial environment. You will serve as a leader in the Technology Excellence Cloud enablement team and work closely with the technology leadership teams to drive overall cloud adoption for the enterprise. You will collaborate closely with teams across the organization to provide strategic direction and guidance to support a rapidly evolving public cloud adoption landscape.

Job Description : As a senior leader driving the core capability build-out of enterprise cloud platform at SVB, you will be in the driver seat of SVB's Cloud Transformation journey in building resilient infrastructure foundations in the public cloud. As a Senior Cloud migration leader, you will lead teams of Cloud Infrastructure, Automation and SRE Engineers to migrate SVB enterprise applications to AWS cloud, and in the process, enriching our client experience with highly available, resilient and performant applications. Are you excited by the prospect of solving large-scale FinTech problems through innovative engineering? Do you like to use your cloud technologies expertise to build observability frameworks needed for pro-actively identify infrastructure and application issues before it surfaces to the end-users and clients?

Are you familiar with best practices for developing cloud native applications? Do you want to play a key role in improving client experience through "always available" application architecture? If you fit the above description, you might be the person we are looking for! We are a group of smart people, passionate about cloud technologies, and believe in best -in-class application experience which is critical to the success of SVB and its customers.

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of 25+ talented cloud infrastructure engineers

Lead the analysis of existing on-prem applications and architect, develop cloud foundations, and migrate the applications to AWS.

Leverage various cloud application migration strategies such as Re-platforming, Re-hosting and Re-architecting applications based on the enterprise technology strategy

Design and develop complex cloud native applications in AWS cloud in a multi-region, multi-AZ distributed set up

Envision, Design and Build end-to-end Observability for Applications running on AWS Platform

Collaborate with product engineering teams to develop and deploy applications using Gitlab, Terraform, AWS services and methodologies

Ensure security is integrated into all of the cloud architecture solutions

Develop and migrate mission critical services to public cloud and build automated testing, deployment and release processes

Have full oversight into changes going into production, asset tagging, cost and capacity analysis, vulnerability, and patch management

Partner closely with peer engineering leaders to ensure, we operate as a single team

Proven leadership with ability to lead multiple teams in a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment

A willingness to mentor people inside/outside of the Information Technology department on best practices, system design principles, and industry trends

Demonstrated ability to bring the benefits of technology to solve business issues while also managing costs and risk

Able to influence decisions at various levels of corporate management

Excellent written, oral communication skills and strong negotiating skills

Passionate about staying on top of technology trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies

Technical Skills:

Strong implementation experience with cloud architecture patterns, building API's, Microservices, Event Processing and high-throughput distributed systems

Experience leading teams to build solutions on AWS using services such as EC2, S3, VPC, SNS, SQS, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Dynamo DB, RDS, Redshift, Glue etc.

Ability to lead a team of engineers to leverage Terraform and contribute new Terraform templates for reuse across organization

Experience in leading teams in developing solutions in Java, Node.js, React or Dot Net Languages

Experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GitLab, SonarQube in the cloud environment

A leader capable of managing high performance teams, flexibility in a dynamic working environment

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline recommended

10+ years of application engineering experience

AWS Certification in Developer or Solution Architect is preferred

5-10 years of demonstrated experience in designing and developing complex distributed IT solutions (e.g., cloud, distributed systems or high-performance computing experience)

For more than 35 years, SVB Financial Group (NASDAQ: SIVB) and its subsidiaries have helped innovative companies and their investors move bold ideas forward, fast. SVB Financial Group's businesses, including Silicon Valley Bank, offer commercial and private banking, asset management, private wealth management, brokerage and investment services and funds management services to companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity and venture capital, and premium wine industries. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, SVB Financial Group operates in centers of innovation around the world. Learn more at svb.com . SVB Financial Group is an equal opportunity employer. At SVB, we have the opportunity to grow and collectively make an impact by supporting the innovative clients and communities SVB serves. We pride ourselves in having both a diverse client roster and an equally diverse and inclusive organization. And we work diligently to encourage all with different ways of thinking, different ways of working, and especially those traditionally underrepresented in technology and financial services, to apply. 2021 SVB Financial Group. All rights reserved. SVB, SVB FINANCIAL GROUP, SILICON VALLEY BANK, MAKE NEXT HAPPEN NOW and the chevron device are trademarks of SVB Financial Group, used under license. Silicon Valley Bank is a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve System. Silicon Valley Bank is the California bank subsidiary of SVB Financial Group (Nasdaq: SIVB).

2021 SVB Financial Group. All rights reserved. SVB, SVB FINANCIAL GROUP, SILICON VALLEY BANK, MAKE NEXT HAPPEN NOW and the chevron device are trademarks of SVB Financial Group, used under license. Silicon Valley Bank is a member of the FDIC and the Federal Reserve System. Silicon Valley Bank is the California bank subsidiary of SVB Financial Group (Nasdaq: SIVB ).

Equal Employment Opportunity

Silicon Valley Bank is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to expanding its commitments and investments to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive company culture and innovation ecosystem. We are strongly committed to the values and policy of equal employment opportunity across our employment practices.

Silicon Valley Bank is registered in England and Wales at Alphabeta, 14-18 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1BR, UK under No. FC029579. Silicon Valley Bank is authorised and regulated by the California Department of Business Oversight and the United States Federal Reserve Bank; authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority with number 577295; and subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority and limited regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority. Details about the extent of our regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority are available from us on request.