About This Role
<p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">Overview </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">The Senior Manager of Altera Cloud Operations & Engineering leads the Azure Operations team and is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of the organization’s cloud and hybrid infrastructure. This role oversees cloud engineering/environment builds, DevOps practices, operational excellence, and major incident response. The ideal candidate is a strategic technical leader and thinker with exceptional communication skills, the ability to influence at all levels, and a relentless drive for continuous improvement—especially in the stability and quality of automation pipelines. While this is primarily an internal facing role, the successful candidate will have deep wisdom and knowledge improving the customer experience. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px"><span></span> </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">Key Responsibilities </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">Cloud Operations & Engineering Leadership </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing team of cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, and operations specialists. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Inspire and motivate team members through clear direction, coaching, and recognition. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Partner with senior leadership, product teams, RnD, security, and infrastructure groups to align cloud strategy with business objectives. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Represent Cloud Operations in leadership forums, providing crisp, confident, and actionable communication. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">Change, Incident, and Operational Management </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Oversee and enforce change management processes to ensure safe, predictable, and compliant deployments. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Serve as the primary escalation point for critical incidents, providing calm, decisive leadership during high‑severity events. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Actively participate in major incident management, including communication, coordination, and post‑incident analysis. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Drive a maniacal focus on corrective actions, ensuring root causes are identified, documented, and permanently remediated to optimize environments and improve build automation and build processes. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Ensure operational processes, runbooks, and documentation are continuously improved and rigorously followed. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">DevOps & CI/CD </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Standardize build and release pipelines for applications and infrastructure. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using ARM, Bicep, Terraform, or similar tools. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Ensure pipeline security, artifact management, versioning, and governance. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Maintain a laser‑focused commitment to the remediation of pipeline automation failures, ensuring rapid recovery, long‑term fixes, and improved reliability. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Champion DevOps best practices across engineering teams. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">Kubernetes & GitOps </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Manage and support Kubernetes clusters (AKS and/or on‑prem). </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Implement and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot containerized applications. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Work with Helm charts, manifests, and YAML‑based configurations. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Ensure cluster security, scalability, and operational health. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">Cloud & Virtualization </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Manage Azure cloud resources, subscriptions, policies, and integrations. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Support and maintain VMware environments, including provisioning, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Contribute to hybrid cloud strategies and cloud migration initiatives. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Optimize cloud cost, performance, and resource utilization. </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">Operations & Troubleshooting </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Provide oversight for Windows Server administration (services, event logs, patching, performance tuning). </span></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px">• Troubleshoot application, OS, pipeline, and infrastructure issues across cloud and on‑prem environments. </span></span></p>