At G-P, our mission is to break down barriers to global business, enabling opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With remote-first and diverse teams all around the world, our people are key to achieving our mission. We encourage and support personal growth and career development, trust our team members with the flexibility and autonomy to do their best work, and believe in recognition for a job well done.
Our market-leading SaaS-based Global Employment Platform™ enables our customers to expand and grow into 180+ countries — without requiring entity or subsidiary setup. The technical opportunities you’ll experience here will have a positive impact on people and their livelihood around the world. Beyond the power of our platform, we never forget that behind every hire is a human being, which brings us to you.
If you have a passion for automation, are a deep innovator, and want to solve complex problems, consider G-P. Here, your knowledge and experience will be crucial to design and develop high-performing cloud-based software products using traditional Agile methodologies and modern frameworks.
Our promise to all employees is a clear and simple mantra – Opportunity Made Possible. Come expand your skills in new ways and experience the thrill of your best innovations becoming reality.
About the position:
As a Director Cloud Engineering & Dev Ops, we need your help in delivering an ambitious roadmap to scale our organization while continuing to build a reliable and high-quality Cloud Engineering organization. You’ll lead our Cloud & Platform Engineering managers and professionals in Ireland, N. Ireland, India, Poland, and N. America. In addition, you’ll help steward us toward our future platform ambitions, building the teams, strategy, and success metrics for our next generation of GP’s platform.
You will lead the continued growth of engineering with an emphasis on championing a strong engineering culture, measuring and increasing delivery velocity, ensuring high quality, and achieving schedule predictability. Ultimately, you will play a key role in building the foundations of Globalization Partner’s highly-scalable platform offering, helping to make it easier for our developers and business to scale. In addition, you will be a key partner in recruiting and building diverse engineering teams and fostering an environment for career advancement.
What you will do:
- Lead teams across Cloud Engineering focused on Engineering Enablement, Cloud Security, Observability, and Scaling the G-P platform
- Partner with Product and Platform engineering teams to define vision, strategy, roadmap, and deliverables
- Lead functions within Cloud Engineering, including networking optimization, data store efficiencies, platform reliability, and cloud security
- Build and operate scalable, reliable, and resilient infrastructure and delivery platforms for G-P’s products and platform
- Define strategies to build and maintain AI platform to enable development and deployment of machine learning models
- Abstract away infrastructure complexity
- Act as a force multiplier enabling internal teams, including SRE and Development
- Maintain enterprise-grade SLAs
- Establish effective incident response schedules and playbooks
- Build and optimize partnerships with key stakeholders and leaders from across Engineering, Product, and Customer Support
- Promote DevOps practices across the organization
What we are looking for:
- 15-20 years of experience in building IaaS and PaaS capabilities up to an enterprise level
- 7+ years of experience leading technical programs, managers, and teams (>20 members) across time zones
- 5+ years experience as an individual contributor
- Deep technical experience across a number of services in the AWS cloud ecosystem
- Experience with running serverless and container infrastructure at scale
- Experience leading multiple teams in a fast-paced, agile environment
- Experience leading teams to understand tradeoffs and to select the optimal solution to meet both business and technical requirements
- Excellent communication with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to guide and influence senior leadership across the organization
- Relationship building with executive leadership
- Python, Java, or JavaScript development experience
- BS in Computing, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Public Cloud Certification(s) (AWS, Azure, or GCP) are plus
About Us
G-P helps growing companies unlock their full potential by making it possible to build highly skilled global teams in days instead of months. Through our SaaS-based platform, we help find, hire, onboard, pay, and manage team members, quickly and compliantly, to expand growth opportunities for everyone, everywhere – without the hassle of setting up local subsidiaries or branch offices.
G-P. Global Made Possible.
G-P is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to building and maintaining a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity. We prohibit discrimination and harassment against employees or applicants on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.
G-P also is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation due to a disability during the interview process, please contact us at careers@g-p.com.