Director of Cloud Operations

Octagon Talent Solutions is in search for a Director of Cloud Engineering and Operations for one of our fast-growing client companies in the South Florida area. Large-scale projects depend on reliable technology behind the scenes. In this role, you’ll manage the cloud platform that helps teams and leaders across locations work from consistent, dependable data. You’ll strengthen cloud operations to support safety, timelines, quality, and cost control.

Performance Objectives

Hold core project, field, and business systems to 99.9% availability so crews and project teams are not stopped by outages.
Reduce avoidable cloud run-cost by at least 15% in the first year without cutting capacity for peak seasons.
Put one operating model—monitoring, incident response, change control, backup, and recovery—in use across every region within two quarters.
Close critical cloud security and access findings on a defined SLA and keep the environment ready for client and regulatory review.
Give operations leaders a monthly view of uptime, incidents, and capacity they can act on, in plain language.
Build a cloud team that owns outcomes, mentors engineers, and partners with project controls, EHS, and construction leadership.
Set vendor performance targets and retire services that do not meet reliability, security, or cost commitments.

Environment and Resources

You lead cloud engineers and managed-service partners and report to the senior technology leader. Work spans multi-state projects, with operations and safety systems. You hold budget authority for cloud spend, tooling, and vendors, and sit with operations leaders who depend on those systems every day. Travel to regions and sites is expected as needed to see how the platform performs in the field.

Essential Qualifications

A record of running production cloud operations—AWS, Azure, or equivalent—for a multi-site or project-based organization.
Hands-on leadership of incident management, observability, identity, backup, and cost control, not strategy alone.
Experience supporting distributed or field teams where connectivity, uptime, and access control affect daily work.
Proof you can set SLAs, report outcomes, and hold vendors and internal teams to them.
Experience building or scaling a small operations team in a fast, entrepreneurial environment.
Clear written and verbal communication with executives, project leaders, and technical staff.
Strong working knowledge of network and infrastructure security, including next-generation firewalls, IPS/IDS, application control, digital certificates, proxy technologies, load balancing, network access control, MFA, VPN, security monitoring, traffic analysis, DDoS threats, vulnerability management, and risk mitigation.
Relevant technical or leadership certifications, such as CCNP, CISSP, GIAC, CompTIA Security+, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Palo Alto Networks, or equivalent credentials, are preferred.
Experience with enterprise networking and cloud-security platforms, including Palo Alto Networks and Prisma Access, or comparable solutions; implementation experience or operational leadership is preferred.
Experience leading enterprise cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and AWS, encompassing governance, architecture, operations, cost management, and partner oversight.

Why This Role

Your platform decisions show up directly in how the organizations and project sites get built.
A national footprint and a culture that honors safety, quality, client engagement, and employee development.
Room to set the operating standard rather than inherit a finished playbook.
A privately held firm where operators still make decisions close to the work.
A visible leadership seat with the people accountable for schedule, cost, and field performance.

If you measure success by systems that stay up when the job sites cannot wait, apply. Tell us the availability, cost, and team outcomes you have already delivered.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to an inclusive environment for all employees.

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