Senior Manager, Cloud

What is special about Lighthouse?
Lighthouse is built on a foundation of unique, compassionate, highly driven individuals. We elevate the strengths and talents of those around us while leveraging opportunities for growth. We offer the experience of solving complex problems while continuing to grow multiple facets of your career. Lighthouse is where innovation meets support and where collaboration is the key ingredient to success. We grow together and are stronger together.
What’s unique about this role?
Lighthouse is a market disruptor in the eDiscovery space, quadrupling investment in product development over the past four years. Our success with Spectra, Prism, and H5 Linguistics Modeling led us to this critical point in growth. We are bullish about our future and our ability to disrupt the legal market continually. We continue to invest heavily in Analytics, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence.
We’re looking for Senior Manager – Cloud & DevOps Engineering, to join our Technology Solutions Group
The ideal candidate is a passionate self-motivated individual, experienced in end-to-end core infrastructure components with hands-on experience and firm grasp of Cloud technologies. The candidate will own the design, and implementation/migration of critical applications on Azure Cloud. This is an exciting technical leadership position in charge of designing & building cloud infrastructure. The candidate will be a customer centric leader, responsible for developing and executing DevOps & Cloud Adoption strategies, implementing best practices, collaborating with other departments, and continuously optimizing processes.
What will this person do?
Strategizing, designing, and implementing highly secure, performant & efficient solutions on Azure Cloud.
Understand and recommend the right Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS) for the business applications.
Security Hardening of cloud infrastructure application/web server against known/unknown vulnerabilities.
Leverage CI best practices and tooling of Azure Cloud.
Design for failover, high availability, MTTR, MTTF and MTBF.
Writing infrastructure as code for public or private clouds and implementing modern cloud Integration.
Architecting and implementing end to end monitoring solutions in cloud (Zabbix, Azure Monitor etc.) including billing.
Designing and implementing software engineering processes, improve efficiency.
Implementing shift left strategy.
Monitor application, systems, and infrastructure health.
Evaluate the undifferentiated heavy lifting of operating in house solutions versus adopting cloud native services.
Collaborate with security teams to implement robust security practices and ensure compliance with relevant standards.
Enable Reliability at every stage with the ability to control the service landscape end to end (dev, staging and prod environments).
Build, train, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, providing cultural, technical, and hands-on leadership.
Establish Cloud onboarding to ensure project is onboarded into proper landing zone within the cloud.
Enable Cloud architecture and engineering to validate architectural patterns.
Establish Cloud financial management to capture estimated costs and tagging strategy.
Enable Agility in code velocity and supportability (CI/CD pipelines).
Enable efficiency in SDLC processes, by adopting best in class tools and practices.
Establish a wholistic governance strategy to balance ownership and autonomy against reliability.
Develop, motivate, empower, and evaluate individual contributors and grow their professional, leadership, and technical skills.
Enhance and develop a culture of trust and commitment to impact how we run internal business systems and services.
Bring your passion and together we will shine. It would also be great if you have the following:
Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or related field
18+ years of professional experience in IT, with a focus on DevOps, infrastructure, Public Cloud, and software development.
8+ years of people management experience.
5+ years of hands-on experience in cloud platforms (AWS/Azure required). Certification is a plus.
Proven experience in leading and managing DevOps teams.
Hands-on experience with Cloud (Public & Private) cost optimization.
Experience operating complex multi-datacenter, multi-cluster environment and a strong understanding of multi-tenancy and security.
Experience in implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.
Advanced experience with enterprise-level software delivery and release management practices.
Delivery experience in solutioning, implementing or migrating enterprise workloads to Public Cloud.
Knowledge of emerging technologies, various platforms, tools and products and their respective applications.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong technical leadership, leading by example, exhibiting patience and determination.
Strong knowledge of SDLC, DevOps principles, practices, and methodologies.
Ability to create structure and drive progress with an action-orientation/drive – must thrive in an ambiguous/dynamic environment.
Deep understanding expertise of major public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), architecture, and engineering at scale
Strong experience with DevOps technologies, cloud-based provisioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting in AWS/Azure.
Expertise in containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
Proficiency in Config Management, IaaC and scripting using Chef/Ansible, Terraform, Shell, PowerShell, and/or Python.
Solid understanding of networking concepts (Routing, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewall), including CDN.
Ability to manage large Cloud infrastructure operations including inventory and Cloud cost management.
Expert in Capacity Planning Design, Cost optimization, and Effort estimations.
Understands compliance, safe harbor, and law of land.
Knowledge of latest security best practices (OWASP, CBE, NIST, etc.), and good understanding of security protocols (TLS, OAuth, etc.).
Expertise in designing HA, DR, Backup, and retention architectures on cloud platforms.
Work Environment and Physical Demands
Duties are performed in a typical office environment while at a desk or computer table.
Duties require the ability to use a computer, communicate over the telephone, and read printed material, in a quiet and professional setting.
Duties may require being on call periodically and working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).
Lighthouse celebrates and thrives on diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire, train, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We welcome any talents and contributions you can bring to the team and are deeply committed to growing an environment where everyone can feel safe, is respected, and can show up as themselves. Come as you are
As a trailblazer and catalyst for change, Lighthouse rises to each opportunity to help our clients and our people do what they do best—shine.
This position will work for and be employed by Lighthouse's India subsidiary, which is an independent company located in India.

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