Location: Herndon, VA

Head of Cloud Operations and Automation - manages and oversees the Cloud Automaton, Engineering & DevOps team. Designs, builds, and maintains a stable and efficient infrastructure to optimize service delivery across production, QA, and Dev environments.

Key responsibilities include monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous integration, packaging, and deployment of code.

Implements automated infrastructure capabilities like backups, security tools, monitoring, creating and standardizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Additionally, creating automation templates, standards and out of the box tools to create a consistent DevOps approach to improve all phases of the process and ensure end-to-end quality across functions.

This list is intended only as a guide and summary of the typical functions of the position. It is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible responsibilities, tasks, and duties to which the employee may be assigned. An employee’s supervisor may ask the employee to perform additional duties or take on additional responsibilities without notice. This list is neither complete nor permanent and may be amended at any time in the Company’s sole discretion.

Requirements:

Knowledge of deployment/configuration management tools like Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines, Bamboo, Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, HashiCorp Terraform, or Ansible is required.

Utilizes version control tools like GIT, Bitbucket and AWS CodeDeploy.

Experienced with core cloud infrastructure especially AWS, Azure.

Knowledge of auto-scaling, self-updating, self-repairing, including managing change control and configuration management.

Knowledge of core network infrastructure, database, cloud and data center operations.

Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows OS.

Experience with programming and scripting with languages like Python, Perl, Bash, PHP, Java, SQL, or C#.

This role manages a team of 5 team members in the day-to-day performance of their jobs, performance reviews and meeting organization imperatives.

The anticipated salary range for this position is $107,000 to $134,000; depending upon the selected candidate’s relevant experience, the exact salary for the role may fall outside of this range. This role will also be eligible to participate in the Company’s bonus/incentive program(s). NEC offers an extensive benefits program and the role will also include, a Health Insurance package with options that include multiple Medical and Dental coverage options, Pharmacy Insurance, Vision Insurance, Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance, Salary Continuation and Voluntary Long-Term Disability Coverage, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Adoption Assistance Program, 401(k) with a 50% match up to 6% of employee contribution, 15 PTO days, 10 paid sick days, 11 paid public holidays, Continuing Education and Tuition Reimbursement, 2 paid Community Service Days, a Travel Assistance Program and Pre-Paid Legal plans.

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Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America (NEC) is a leading technology integrator providing solutions that improve the way people work and communicate. NEC creates the social values of safety, security, fairness and efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential.

With a global team of 100,000, and 64,000+ technology patents, we deliver one of the industry’s strongest and most innovative portfolios of communications, analytics, security, biometrics, and technology solutions that unleash customers’ productivity potential. Through these solutions, NEC combines its best-in-class solutions and technology to solve today’s most complex business problems. NEC Corporation of America is a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a global technology leader with a presence in 140 countries and $27 billion in revenues. Backed by 123 years of innovation and experience, NEC knows what it takes to change and stay ahead of technology's continuous evolution. It is our capability to leverage decades of award-winning technologies and research that has enabled NEC to remain an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) leader and through problem resolution, bring new value to people, organizations, and society.

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