VP Cloud Engineering and Operations

job summary:Randstad Technologies is looking for a VP to lead the Cloud Engineering and Operations groups on a direct hire role for a client of ours in Jacksonville, FL. The ideal candidate will have 15 years of IT leadership experience and expertise with Cloud Computing. This position will be a part of the CTO Team. location: JACKSONVILLE, Floridajob type: Permanentsalary: $175,000 - 210,000 per yearwork hours: 8am to 4pmeducation: Bachelors responsibilities:

• The ideal candidate will bring industry leading thought leadership to develop and drive a "Cloud First" strategy for Vystar to meet our growing need for speed to market, delivery flexibility and competitive capabilities in the increasingly challenging landscape for member finance services; that can be operationalized in every region and market that we operate in.
• Develop a business case and transform cloud cost model for cloud capabilities by providing a flexible, on-demand, consumption-based model.
• Collaborate with internal, enterprise partners to deliver modern capabilities from leading cloud platform and cloud services providers for Vystar consumption, with fast cycle times.
• Drive adoption of cloud infrastructure and application patterns to meet speed, stability, scalability, security goals, and simultaneously deliver the associated savings from moving to cloud platforms.
• Build framework for application portfolio analysis and establish decision criteria to select applications best suited for cloud migration based on Total Cost of Ownership, workload profile, data gravity, network latency and information security needs.
• Identify motivators for cloud adoption and unblock enterprise challenges, with a focus on meeting internal security, risk and compliance standards with a common approach that enables rapid adoption of cloud across all functions.
• Provide any audit related support to address risk reward for cloud adoption, ensure security, risk and compliance measures exceed any criteria established by regulatory oversight.
• Influence cloud technology strategy, under the leadership of CTO, by engaging thought leaders and skilled industry experts (e.g Azure, AWS, Google, IBM, Oracle, Pivotal, Red Hat) to design fit-for-purpose solutions for VyStar, balancing customization and speed of consumption.
• Determine security requirements to develop a best-in-class security posture (with Information Security and Enterprise Architecture leaders) that prevents franchise risk but drives adoption of cloud capabilities in a pragmatic, and repeatable manner.
• Partner application development leaders to leverage capability development in order to drive application modernization and migration to cloud platforms, by implementing standard design patterns, compliant with target state architecture.
• Collaborate with aligned architects, engineering, application managers, project managers, and infrastructure teams to drive emerging technology standards to industry best practices.
• Provide regular and meaningful management information on cloud adoption, including spend, benefits, and investment view over a multiyear period.
• Drive a culture of innovation, data driven solutions and a forward compatibility mindset to ensure the workforce is seeking and leveraging emerging industry trends and changes that affect the business and the member experience.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Experience level: Director
• Minimum 10 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors