IT Cloud Engineer

Mayo Clinic • Rochester, MN

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About The Position

The Product Owner for the Cloud Control Plane is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and driving delivery of features that enable a secure, reliable, scalable, and highly automated multi‑cloud foundation. This role ensures that the Cloud Control Plane delivers consistent, policy‑driven, self‑service capabilities to engineering teams across the enterprise. The Product Owner partners closely with the Principal Product Manager to translate product vision and strategy into actionable work for agile teams.

Requirements

• Track record of successfully organizing, prioritizing, and delivering complex cloud or infrastructure initiatives.
• Experience working with cloud or infrastructure technologies and a demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new cloud platforms, automation tools, and engineering practices.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business‑aligned outcomes.
• Proven ability to work in agile environments and drive cross‑functional collaboration.
• Experience working with highly technical engineering teams and complex enterprise environments.
• Bachelor’s degree with 3 years’ experience with 1 year of demonstrated leadership experience, or Associate’s degree with 5 years’ experience with 1 years demonstrated leadership experience, or HS/GED with 7 years of experience in a large, complex organization like Mayo Clinic may be considered in lieu of the degree.
• Experience deploying and operating on a public cloud framework.
• Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to build collaborative working relationships with various internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical ability and data-driven mindset.
• Ability to rapidly acquire new knowledge and skills.
• Familiarity with service design and pricing in the context of cloud-based solutions.
• Experience with cloud deployment, technical and security architecture, database architecture, virtualization, software design, software development, IP networking, Linux, Agile development, SCRUM, application lifecycle management, .NET, programming languages, technical solution architecture, SOA, Windows Azure, Amazon AWS.
• Certification in cloud engineering is required within 12-24 months.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with multi-cloud governance frameworks, cloud landing zone architectures, and cloud security best practices.
• Background in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud operations.
• Certification in Azure, AWS, GCP, or Agile Product Ownership.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between engineering teams, architects, and stakeholders to clarify requirements and ensure alignment with product goals.
• Translate the strategic roadmap—defined by the Principal Product Manager—into well‑defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and feature definitions for the delivery teams.
• Own and prioritize the team backlog, ensuring the highest‑value work is consistently delivered.
• Collaborate with cloud architects and engineering teams to define technical and operational requirements for core platform capabilities, including automation pipelines, provisioning, governance, identity, policy enforcement, and observability.
• Ensure the Cloud Control Plane meets enterprise standards for reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Support iterative delivery by participating in agile ceremonies, validating delivered features, and ensuring readiness for release.
• Monitor performance metrics and user feedback to refine backlog priorities and inform continuous improvement.
• Partner with operations teams and FinOps to ensure operational excellence and lifecycle management of Cloud Control Plane components.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees