Sr Manager, Cloud Engineering

DXC Technology • Charleston, SC

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About The Position

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global organizations run their mission-critical systems while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Trusted by many of the world’s largest enterprises and public sector organizations, DXC delivers exceptional service across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive performance, competitiveness, and customer experience. Learn more at DXC.com . At DXC, we deliver essential IT services that enable clients to modernize operations and accelerate innovation across their entire technology landscape. Our offerings span business process outsourcing, insurance services, analytics and engineering, applications, security, cloud, IT outsourcing, and modern workplace solutions. DXC Insurance Services helps clients optimize and transform operations, reduce costs, and build agile platforms for growth. By combining deep industry expertise, leading technology, and proven best practices, we automate and improve complex middle- and back-office processes while enhancing the overall customer experience. Role Overview The Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering leads a global team of cloud and infrastructure engineers responsible for designing, implementing, and operating secure, scalable hybrid environments across AWS and on-premises datacenters. This role requires strong technical depth, proven people leadership, and end-to-end delivery ownership. The ideal candidate can translate strategy into execution, lead complex technical initiatives, and foster a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred).
• 10+ years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or technical operations.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and team development (direct management strongly preferred).
• 5+ years of experience administering Windows and Linux systems.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, Elasticsearch, and EKS.
• Strong understanding of hybrid infrastructure architectures, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and application/database integrations.
• Experience with enterprise toolsets for cloud operations, networking, monitoring, security, and compliance (e.g., Rapid7, CloudRanger, Aviatrix, CrowdStrike, Ivanti, Dynatrace, Power BI, Jira, ServiceNow).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Familiarity with ITIL or other IT service management frameworks.
• Advanced Excel skills, including task tracking, infrastructure inventories, and reporting (PivotTables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, structured tables, complex formulas, and data quality techniques).

Nice To Haves

• AWS certifications (e.g., Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect, or Specialty certifications).
• Experience leading infrastructure modernization initiatives such as datacenter migrations, cloud adoption and expansion, standardization, or automation programs.
• Strong cost, inventory, and risk management skills, with the ability to analyze and reconcile spend, capacity, and compliance using data.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a global team of cloud and infrastructure engineers supporting production workloads across AWS and on-premises environments, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management.
• Establish and reinforce accountability to organizational standards, shared values, security requirements, and operational expectations.
• Develop team capabilities through mentorship, structured development plans, skills growth, and succession planning to sustain a high-performing organization.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural oversight for secure, scalable hybrid infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with reliability, security, cost, and supportability standards.
• Own end-to-end delivery of technical initiatives, including scope definition, planning, milestone estimation, dependency and risk management, status reporting, and delivery accountability.
• Drive operational excellence through incident and problem management, root cause analysis, KPI/SLA tracking, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead automation and optimization efforts to improve deployment consistency, monitoring, reliability, and operational efficiency using engineering best practices and repeatable patterns.
• Communicate strategy, priorities, risks, and progress clearly to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders through written updates, presentations, and operational reporting.
• Ensure infrastructure designs, configurations, processes, and runbooks are fully documented and governed to support consistency, auditability, and team self-sufficiency.

What This Job Offers

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