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# IT leader

- **Company:** Mitchell International, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,800.0 - $193,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management Databases, Data Centers, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Identity and Access Management, Information Technology Operations, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Software Vulnerability Management, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.military.com/career/320915/director-cloud-operations-california-ca-san-diego

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field\n
 * 10+ years of experience in IT Operations, Cloud Operations, Infrastructure Operations, or Site Reliability Engineering, including 5+ years in leadership roles.\n
 * Experience leading enterprise-scale AWS and/or Azure environments with accountability for reliability, availability, security, operational performance, and service delivery.\n
 * Strong background in ITSM, operational excellence, and operational governance, including incident, problem, change, configuration, and service management.\n
 * Experience establishing service ownership, operational readiness, and service transition processes for production services and cloud platforms.\n
 * Experience managing strategic vendors, managed service providers, contracts, service reviews, and SLA accountability.\n
 * Demonstrated success improving SLAs, SLOs, KPIs, operational maturity, and service performance.\n
 * Experience leading FinOps, automation, infrastructure-as-code adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives.\n
 * Strong understanding of resiliency, disaster recovery, business continuity, security, compliance, risk management, and executive stakeholder leadership.\n, * AWS and/or Azure certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent).\n
 * ITIL certification or formal service management training.\n
 * Experience operating in regulated or highly compliant environments.\n
 * Experience leading large-scale cloud migration, modernization, or data center exit initiatives.\n

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 * Experience with cloud governance, observability, CSPM, CMDB, vulnerability management, IAM integration, DNS operations, messaging dependencies, and policy compliance\n



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