Sr. Staff Cloud Engineer (Cloud Strategy & Innovation)
About The Position
Capital One is seeking a senior cloud engineering leader for Cloud Foundations, a team that delivers scalable, secure, and flexible cloud infrastructure solutions for the company’s applications and critical systems. The team creates standard cloud infrastructure patterns and capabilities through automated, API-first solutions, with a goal of providing fully managed infrastructure that can be deployed in real time. In this role, you will drive cloud infrastructure strategy in areas such as cloud connectivity, automated cloud landing zones, and cloud platform management. You will work with senior leaders and enterprise stakeholders to shape and execute that strategy. The role combines hands-on technical contribution and innovation with strategic leadership, cross-divisional collaboration, mentoring, and the responsible adoption of AI and automation to improve cloud platforms and engineering workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related quantitative field, such as Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
- At least 9 years of experience in software engineering.
- At least 6 years of experience in cloud engineering.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- 12 or more years of coding experience with at least one of Java, Scala, Python, Go, or Node.js.
- 8 or more years of experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI.
- 8 or more years of experience with CI/CD orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Crossplane, and automated governance using Policy-as-Code DSLs such as OPA.
- One or more active certifications related to cloud infrastructure management or security.
- Experience optimizing complex, high-scale distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, including Kubernetes or serverless.
- Experience designing and supporting cloud networking, security, and identity integrations.
- Experience troubleshooting and supporting production cloud environments.
- Experience influencing technology strategy at the portfolio or business-unit level.
- Experience managing multi-team engineering organizations or leading strategic technical programs across multiple domains.
- Experience defining and tracking engineering OKRs aligned to business outcomes.
- Experience shaping organization design and talent strategy to scale engineering capabilities.
- Experience with strategic and executive-level communication to influence technology decisions.
- Experience across the full system development lifecycle, from conception and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Experience acting as a leader of leaders and driving professional development within technical teams.
- Expertise in strategic application of agentic AI coding tools to solve systemic development challenges.
- Experience with risk management and operational excellence in high-risk or high-severity incident environments.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving professional development within technical teams.
- Experience leading cross-domain architectural reviews or establishing coding and design standards.
Responsibilities
- Articulate and evangelize a bold technical vision for the assigned domain.
- Decompose complex problems into practical, operational solutions.
- Ensure the quality of technical design and implementation.
- Serve as an authoritative expert on non-functional system characteristics, including performance, scalability, and operability.
- Continue learning and contribute advanced technical knowledge to the engineering community.
- Handle multiple projects simultaneously and balance time to maximize impact.
- Serve as a role model and mentor, coaching and strengthening the technical expertise of engineering and product colleagues.
- Drive modernization of monolithic systems into microservice architectures and event-driven platforms.
- Collaborate with senior engineering and architecture leaders to define long-term platform strategy and API standards.
- Balance deep, hands-on technical contribution and innovation with mentoring and developing peers and junior engineers.
- Lead cross-divisional projects that promote technological best practices and enhancements.
- Lead adoption and responsible use of emerging AI and automation capabilities to improve cloud platform and engineering workflow scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
Benefits
- Performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives.
- A comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits supporting employee well-being.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
