Director - Cloud Services (Director of Cloud Engineering)

Holman is a family-owned, global automotive services organization anchored by our deeply rooted core values and principles that have enabled us to continue Driving What’s Right throughout the last century. Our teams deliver the Holman Experience by treating our customers and each other as we would like to be treated, and creating positive, rewarding relationships all around.

The automotive markets Holman serves include fleet management and leasing; vehicle fabrication and upfitting; component manufacturing and productivity solutions; powertrain distribution and logistics services; commercial and personal insurance and risk management; and retail automotive sales as one of the largest privately owned dealership groups in the United States.

Holman is currently accepting applications for the role of Director- Cloud Services & Engineering

Primary Tasks:

• Create an environment which focuses on value, collaboration, and transparency.
• Lead the planning and execution of migrating on-premises infrastructure, applications, and workloads to Azure, ensuring minimal disruption and optimal performance.
• Oversee the security posture of our Azure environment, implementing best practices and cutting-edge security measures to protect company data and resources.
• Ensure development CI-CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipelines are robust, available, and properly configured to support agile and efficient software development.
• Champion the benefits of cloud migration, advocating for the adoption of Azure services and partner SaaS offerings across the organization to enhance scalability, reliability, and innovation.
• Standardize and integrate disaster recovery and resiliency strategies across all production workloads to guarantee business continuity.
• Monitor and report on the costs associated with our Azure tenant, implementing measures to optimize spending without compromising on performance or security.
• Forge strong partnerships with key stakeholders in IT and various business units, facilitating a collaborative approach to the successful migration and adoption of SaaS and cloud offerings.
• Contributes to business strategic planning and leads the development of strategic roadmaps for the disciplines under direct management.
• Ensure all relevant service delivery metrics (KPIs) are tracked and communicated often in accordance with ITIL best practices and I&O needs.
• Ensure service level agreements (SLA) and operational level agreements (OLA) are established, managed effectively, objectively measured, reported with transparency, and consistently achieved at a high rate.
• Design and execute on strategies to increase service delivery efficiency and customer experience with objective tracking and transparent reporting to measure success of these efforts.
• Partner with others in the organization to ensure that more and more low-risk tasks are clearly defined in a repeatable process, permission has been properly delegated, and responsibility for these functions are passed to the service delivery teams.
• Actively solicit honest feedback from others in the organization on ways we are perceived on delivering services to the rest of the organization - both formally and through informal means.
• Promote new innovative ideas in the team while ensuring ideas have a strong value proposition before implementation or seeking additional approval.
• Work with the IT Process team to ensure all budgeting, procurement, approvals, reviews, change management, incident response, etc. are done according to the I&O official processes - throughout the entire Platform Services organization.
• Establish and maintain relationships with strategic partners, with a focus on long-term vision and cost control.
• Ensure that capacity within the team is properly managed using only approved technologies/methods and reported regularly using objective data.
• Ensure that longer-term initiatives are properly planned, forecasted, managed, and communicated according to the I&O project management practices.
• Develop and ensure completion of training curriculum to position Cloud Services for current and future-state readiness.
• Responsible for key vendor relationships and ensuring alignment of vendors to organizational priorities.
• Interacts with Executive Leadership to communicate, educate, and provide any needed support to business priorities.
• Actively supports and contributes to the IT organization’s innovation efforts.
• Monitors spending in alignment with approved budgetary outlay.
• Oversee the operating model of Cloud Services to ensure quality, reliability and security as change occurs.
• Manage and mentor a team of cloud engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, integrity, trust, continuous learning, and accountability.
• Perform all other duties and special projects as assigned.
  
  

Relevant Work Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience in IT operations, including 5+ at a leadership level and 5+ focused on cloud technologies and migration projects.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale cloud migration initiatives, preferably with Azure.
• Extensive knowledge and experience within own function and general knowledge of areas, departments and/or function(s) within and across other disciplines
  
  

Education and/or Training:

• Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Master’s preferred.
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, security, and services, with relevant certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect: AZ-303 and AZ-304) highly desirable.
• Knowledge of networking protocols and technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and VLANs
• Expert knowledge of native Azure cloud services as well as virtualization and container concepts and technologies.
• Advanced proficiency with scripting languages (e.g,. PowerShell, Python) as well as automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Proficient in various desktop tools including MS Office Programs (i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, SharePoint etc.)
  
  

Hybrid

At Holman, we exist to provide rewarding careers and better lives for employees and their families. We hire, train, empower, and reward exceptional people. Our journey is guided by our desire to get it right every time and the acknowledgement that we have an opportunity to be better. To be better, we have to do better, and to do better we must know better. That’s why we are listening, open to learning new things – about ourselves and each other. We will never stop striving for improved diversity, equity, and inclusion because we are successful together when we feel trusted and supported. It’s The Holman Way.

At Holman, your total compensation goes beyond your paycheck. To position you for success and provide a rewarding career and better life for you and your family, Holman is proud to offer you the benefits you deserve; including protection against illness, disability, loss of work, or preparation for retirement. Below is a brief overview of the programs available to full-time employees (programs may vary by country or worker type):

• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) plan with Company Match
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays, Bereavement, and Jury Duty
• Paid Pregnancy/Parental leave
• Paid Military Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
  
  

Benefits:

Regular Full-Time

We offer excellent benefits including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance, and 401(k) with company match. Our time off benefits include Paid Time Off (PTO), paid holidays, bereavement, and jury duty. In addition, we offer paid pregnancy and parental leave, and supplemental paid military leave to eligible employees.

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Temporary or Part-Time

In geographic areas with statutory paid sick leave, part-time and temporary employees will receive a paid sick leave benefit that meets the mandated requirements.

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Pay:

We offer competitive wages that are commensurate with job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and geographic location, starting in the range of $189,530.00 - $298,515.00 USD annually for full time employees. The annual compensation range is comprised of base pay and bonus earnings.

Holman provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.