Expert Cloud Program Manager

Position summary

Program delivery and governance

• Defines strategies, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, budgets, success measures, governance, and program cadence.
• Drives end-to-end delivery from intake and planning through design, implementation, pilot, rollout, and operational transition.
• Coordinates workstreams, vendors, technical teams, and business stakeholders; monitors program health, delivery metrics, and risk mitigation.
• Leads Agile delivery using SAFe, Scrum, and Lean Portfolio Management, including sprint, release, executive, and quarterly planning.

Cloud platforms, automation, and patching

• Leads enterprise image lifecycle programs for AWS AMIs, Azure Images, Azure Compute Gallery, Azure Local Images, and VMware Templates.
• Automates image creation, testing, certification, publishing, governance, and lifecycle management; standardizes golden images and security baselines.
• Drives automated OS and middleware patching across cloud and hybrid platforms and establishes patch governance and compliance reporting.
• Promotes Azure Arc, Azure Update Manager, Azure Policy, AWS Systems Manager, Terraform, DevOps pipelines, IaC, DevSecOps, and platform engineering.

Stakeholders, finances, and risk

• Communicates status, issues, risks, dependencies, budget performance, and outcomes to senior leaders; develops presentations, dashboards, and business cases.
• Manages budgets, forecasts, vendors, resource allocation, financial tracking, and demonstration of business value and ROI.
• Establishes governance for cybersecurity, audit, regulatory, architecture, operational readiness, and enterprise policy requirements.
• Drives process improvement, delivery velocity, efficiency, reliability, scalability, and continuous learning.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of technology program and project management experience.
• 5+ years leading cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps transformation programs.
• Expertise in cloud program and portfolio management; strong understanding of AWS, Azure, Azure Local, hybrid cloud, and platform engineering.
• Experience with enterprise-scale cloud transformations, Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Lean delivery, budgets, schedules, dependencies, risks, and executive communications.
• Demonstrated cross-functional program leadership, stakeholder influence, communication, facilitation, negotiation, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred technical knowledge

• Preferred: enterprise AMI/Image Factory, multi-cloud auto-patching, Azure Arc, Azure Update Manager, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Actions.
• Preferred: Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, cloud governance and compliance, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and CI/CD automation.
• Preferred: cloud operations, reliability engineering, and experience delivering cloud migrations, platform modernization, automation, or infrastructure transformation.
• Preferred certifications: PMP, SAFe Agilist, SAFe Lean Portfolio Management, or PMI-ACP.
• Preferred tools: Azure DevOps, Jira, Planisware, or similar project and portfolio management tools.

Pay

• Pay rate is $90.00 per hour on W-2.

Duration

• The assignment runs October 26, 2026 through October 25, 2027.

Location

• The job description lists Oakland, California.