Vice President, Cloud and Platform
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Vice President, Cloud & Platform Engineering
WWE is a fast paced, innovative company that has embraced a transformative journey into the cloud. The Vice President, Cloud & Platform Engineering will leverage his/her expertise and thought leadership in cloud platform technologies to create a cost effective and always available cloud infrastructure across Enterprise Technology, Broadcast Engineering and Digital Media groups. The position will report to the SVP of Enterprise Technology and will be based out of Stamford CT.
This individual will have a strong track record for transforming IT Infrastructure to cloud based solutions; providing high levels of customer service and proven results with digital transformation to enable the business. The role will own and execute on chief strategic initiatives to ensure WWE keeps pace with emerging technology for optimal collaboration, efficiency and financial value.
Vice President, Cloud & Platform Engineering
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead WWE's move from the data center to the cloud leveraging leading cloud platforms and microservices
• Build a cloud platform team to support this journey
• Develop relationships across business verticals for a holistic view of Infrastructure service needs
• Management and oversight of a highly available Amazon Web Services Infrastructure including but not limited to clustered services, EC2, EBS, S3, Workspaces, Redshift and RDS
• Supporting development teams with CI/CD tools
• Evaluate Google Cloud Platform for new Infrastructure services
• Oversee on premise data centers and management of Infrastructure services
• Develop and adapt enterprise disaster recovery, audit, and business continuity recovery plans in partnership key business and technical stakeholders; ensure operations and resilience
• Infrastructure and Cloud vendor and MSP management
• Rethink and Design Standard Operating Procedures
• Proactively anticipate and manage system demands and capacity requirements
• Devise Infrastructure strategy to align with stakeholder needs
• Develop Key Performance Indicators and performance metrics that can be translated into business value
• Measure and approve Service Level Agreements and proactive monitoring
• Project management and reporting/presentations for senior management
• Manage growing cloud costs through automation and efficiencies while focusing on scalability of of operations.
• Building strong partner relationships across different business technology verticals
• Experience recommending new technology and processes that will improve customer service, reduce costs and/or provide a competitive advantage
• Ensure a comprehensive data availability, backup and retention architecture
Role Qualifications:
• 10 years of increasing responsibility in IT leadership including management of both cloud based as well as on premise Infrastructure and technology services.
• Deep technical experience in AWS architecture and strategy roles; AWS certifications
• Proven track record for improving Infrastructure service delivery
• Successful candidate will have experience managing and implementing multi provider Cloud architecture including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Office 365/Azure, and Google
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, impeccably communicate complex situations, develop solution strategies, mobilize resources, and deliver results
Strong leadership presence with experience working directly with C-Level management
• Good attention to detail and follow-up skills
• Fact-based and data-driven decision maker
• Experience in the Media and Entertainment strongly preferred
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