Senior Manager Software Engineering - Cloud Engineering (Remote)
About The Position
As the Senior Manager of Cloud Engineering, you will lead the teams that build and operate the platforms, tooling, and cost discipline that let enable every product team at The Home Depot to build, ship, and run in the cloud efficiently and safely. You will own a connected set of responsibilities: the paved-path platform foundations, services, and guardrails that teams build on; the deployment and delivery tooling that makes releases fast, safe, and low-friction; and the cost management and optimization practices that keep cloud spend efficient and sustainable as the business scales. You will champion a paved-path approach that makes the right way the easy way, reducing friction so teams can develop, deploy, and support their applications with less toil. You will partner with our most strategic cloud and tooling vendors to ensure the right capabilities are readily available across the Enterprise, and you will bring an experiment-driven, metrics-informed mindset — including modern AI and agentic workflows — to how the platform evolves. You will partner closely with Platform Reliability Engineering to balance reliability, developer experience, and cost, and you will grow the next generation of cloud engineering talent, leading teams focused on building these capabilities and sharing them across the organization.
Requirements
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Mastery of an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
- 6 years of relevant work experience, including leading engineering teams
- Mastery of cloud platform engineering on major providers (e.g., GCP, Azure) — compute, networking, storage, IAM, and core platform services
- Mastery of cloud cost management and optimization (FinOps) — driving spend visibility, optimization, and sustainable unit economics at scale
- Mastery of modern deployment tooling and progressive delivery — CI/CD pipelines, small-batch releases, and fast, safe deployments (e.g., Spinnaker, TFE)
- Mastery of designing paved-path platforms with an excellent developer experience — intuitive APIs, self-service workflows, and clear, consistent GUIs, CLIs, and documentation
- Proficient in designing platform interaction surfaces (APIs, SDKs, portals) that minimize friction, steps, and support burden for the teams consuming them
- Proficient in using customer feedback, adoption signals, and usage data to continuously improve the experience of building and deploying on the platform
- Proficient in defining and tracking platform adoption and efficiency metrics across a large engineering population — from leading indicators (e.g., paved-path adoption, pipeline coverage) to outcome metrics (e.g., cost per transaction, deployment frequency)
- Proficient in technical communication — strategy documents, architecture reviews, and executive-level updates
- Capable of understanding complex technical and organizational systems quickly
- Experience with delivery and developer-productivity frameworks (e.g., DORA, CSAT)
- Experience applying AI and agentic workflows to accelerate platform and deployment engineering
- Experience managing and growing individual contributors and managers in a professional setting
- Experience managing strategic vendor relationships (cloud providers, tooling platforms), including negotiations
- Experience translating high-level strategy into tactical execution
- Proficiency in supporting a 24x7 retail operation
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Nice To Haves
- No additional education
- No additional years of experience
- None
- None
Responsibilities
- Works and negotiates with partners on the staffing of skilled engineering positions on product teams
- Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner
- Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that aligned to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
- Evaluates new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
- Helps to identify and demonstrate emerging technologies for adoption by product teams
- Collaborates and pairs with product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
- Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
- Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases
- Works with vendors and partners for the successful implementation of critical tooling and platforms
- Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
- Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, and engineering empowerment
- Participates in and leads review board sessions to drive consistency across the enterprise
- Makes suggestions that help drive operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics
- Fills in on product teams for engineers who are out of the office
- Fields questions from engineers, product teams, or support teams
- Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teams
- Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
- Provides application support for software running in production
- Acts as a technical escalation point for the engineers on the team
- Provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Software Engineers
- Attracts, retains, and develops top talent to build a world class Software Engineering Team
- Conducts annual and mid-year reviews by reviewing individual development plans and team feedback
- Fosters collaboration with team members to drive consistency across product teams, and finds opportunities to expose engineers to career interests
- Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
- Guides team members in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution tasks within and across product teams
- Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
- Builds relationships with technology leaders at other companies to learn best practices and elegant solutions to common problems
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
