Position Title: Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure (M3)
Company Summary:
Crown Castle is the nation’s largest provider of shared communications infrastructure: towers, small cells and fiber. It all works together to meet unprecedented demand-connecting people and communities and transforming the way we do business. Whenever you make a call, track a workout or stream music and videos, we’re the ones providing the communications infrastructure that makes it all possible. From 5G and the internet of things to drones, autonomous vehicles and AR/VR, we enable the technologies that help people stay safe, connected and ready for the future. Crown Castle is publicly traded on the S&P 500, and one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the US, with an enterprise value of ~$70B.
We offer a total benefits package and professional growth development for teammates in any stage of their career. Along with caring for our teammates, we’re an active member in the communities where we live, work and do business. We have a responsibility to give back, which we do through our Connected by Good program. Giving back allows us to improve public spaces where people connect, promote public safety and advance access to education and technology.
Role:
As a Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering you’ll join our Data & Digital team helping us lead, design and build our digital transformation and define what’s next for our business-while working in an organization that’s continuously investing in technology.
The Senior Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering will lead a team responsible for building Crown Castle’s cloud foundation. You are a collaborative leader and technical mentor who will guide the design, implementation, and management of cloud infrastructure solutions. You’ll manage the daily operations of a cloud engineering team and execute strategy at the department level, contributing to the operating plan and guiding decisions to align with enterprise strategies for delivering cloud infrastructure capabilities. You thrive in a space where you are advocating, challenging, and influencing both teams and stakeholders to innovate and automate.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with leadership and key stakeholders on a regular basis earning a reputation as a thought-leader and strategic business partner in building technology-driven solutions
- Oversee the planning and designing of cloud infrastructure that accounts for security, stability, scalability, maintainability, and performance
- Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and automation frameworks to enable efficient provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud resources.
- Build and scale a cloud engineering team that operates cross-functionally to ensure quality and timely delivery of code
- Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and develop engineering leaders.
- Provide direction on shifting priorities for new and existing projects as well as enterprise initiatives
- Direct implementation initiatives for new products and applications
- Provide direction on shifting priorities for new and existing projects as well as enterprise initiatives
- Perform ongoing assessments of teams and programs to support continuous improvement and innovation
- Help teams continuously reflect and improve, becoming more effective in their roles and increasing their predictability, teamwork, and practices
- Create effective partnerships with third party partners for technology services and support
- Coach teams towards implementing and working within an Agile environment
Expectations
- Develop plans and execute strategy working with senior leadership, including business, production, operational and/or organizational priorities
- Supervise, coordinate, provide leadership to and review the work of professional employees to accomplish operational plans and results
- Maintain an awareness of changing organizational conditions and their impact to the strategic objectives, using knowledge to adapt and evolve their approach.
- Take primary responsibility for relationships with product & business stakeholders within and across teams to better plan for and prioritize work
- Demonstrate maturity and ability to communicate at all levels of the company
Education/Certifications
- BS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline
- Master’s Degree preferred
- AWS Cloud certifications preferred
Experience/Minimum Requirements
- 8+ years’ software engineering experience with Cloud Native solutions
- 5+ years leading cloud engineering teams that own and operate high-volume, highly available, scalable, services on top of cloud infrastructure (AWS)
- 5+ years AWS experience
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure components, including compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Experience building and/or configuring Cloud infrastructure (IaC) and services (on-prem or public) through code, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
- Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud architectures.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, security principles, and best practices for cloud environments.
- Experience with cloud migration projects and integrating cloud services with existing systems.
- Both technically deep and business savvy to interface with and lead teams of all levels and disciplines
- Project planning and organization skills, including the ability to identify and build project plans and goals that align with organizational objectives
- Self-starter: seeks new and creative ways to deliver results for customers and proactively identifies opportunities for continuous improvement
- Problem solving mindset and solution-enabler; ability to identify problems, make decisions and drive innovative solutions
- Proven ability to recruit and retain talent
Working Conditions: This is a remote role with the expectation of on-site collaboration with teammates and stakeholders for moments that matter. Travel up to 20% may be required.
For New York City, Colorado, California, and Washington residents – The hiring range offered for this position is $152,000 – $195,000 annually. In addition to salary, employees are eligible for an annual bonus of up to 30% of annual salary and restricted stock. Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also receive 18 days of paid time off each year and 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
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