Sr. Manager, Cloud Center of Excellence & Systems Engineering

Arlo•Milpitas, CA

2d•$200,000 - $270,000

About The Position

Arlo is standing up a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) to drive engineering efficiency and ease of adoption across our 400+ person engineering organization. You will own the CCoE program and a Systems Engineering team responsible for cloud standards, shared tooling, and common libraries — making it easier for every team to build and ship reliably.

Requirements

8+ years of software or cloud/platform engineering experience, with 3+ years in engineering management
Deep expertise in AWS (EKS, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, Cost Explorer) and IaC tooling (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent)
Experience designing and maintaining shared libraries or platform SDKs consumed by multiple teams
Demonstrated ability to define and enforce engineering standards across a large, multi- team organization
FinOps mindset: experience managing and optimizing cloud costs at scale
Strong communicator — able to translate technical topics for both engineers and executives

Nice To Haves

Experience building an internal developer platform (IDP) or cell-based / multi-region architecture
Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure (Databricks, SageMaker, Bedrock)
AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer) or FinOps Foundation (FOCP)
Background in consumer IoT, connected devices, or real-time streaming platforms

Responsibilities

Define and evolve cloud engineering standards, architectural patterns, and operational baselines
Drive FinOps practices: cost monitoring, rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, and budget forecasting
Build and maintain a best-practices knowledge base: design patterns, IaC standards, common cloud service libraries, and observability playbooks
Evaluate emerging tools and technologies (AI infrastructure, edge compute, etc.) and translate findings into adoption roadmaps
Run office hours, workshops, and documentation programs to upskill engineers on cloud-native design — lowering the barrier to doing things the right way
Partner with the SRE organization on post-mortem learnings; translate findings into updated standards and training
Manage and grow a team of DevOps and Systems Engineers; own hiring, performance, and career development
Own the development, versioning, and lifecycle of common libraries shared across cloud services
Deliver shared platform tooling and internal developer platform capabilities; partner with the Engineering Tools team on CI/CD integration
Drive adoption of the Arlo Cloud Platform — cell-based, AZ-bounded architecture and semver’d operational baselines — through enablement, not mandates
Collaborate with Security and Compliance to embed governance into platform delivery
Serve as the senior technical voice on cloud standards; build trusted relationships with engineering leads across all teams
Represent the team to executive stakeholders; influence investment decisions with data- driven insights