Cornerstone OnDemand is seeking a hands-on and strategic Senior Director of Cloud Engineering to lead our global Cloud & Automation team. As a key member of the Engineering leadership team, you will drive the modernization of our SaaS platform, delivering intelligent automation, AI-powered observability, and highly scalable infrastructure across AWS and GCP. You'll lead the transformation of legacy monolithic systems into modern, service-based architectures while building a high-performing, diverse engineering team. This role requires strong technical expertise, people leadership, and the ability to influence across teams in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

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In this role you will... Lead the strategy and execution of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and CI/CD automation across hybrid environments (AWS/GCP). Drive modernization of legacy applications into scalable, service-based and cloud-native architectures. Provide technical leadership in OOP programming using Java, .NET, Python and Groovy. Define and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, design principles, and agile delivery models. Build, mentor, and scale hybrid teams of engineers and technical leaders across geographies. Collaborate with product, security, and operations teams to deliver highly available, secure, and performant cloud platforms. Own the architecture and delivery of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code tools. Support RDBMS technologies (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL) and integration in distributed cloud environments. Conduct regular 1:1s, support goal setting, unblock team members, and build a culture of technical excellence. Act as a point of contact for stakeholders; drive alignment between engineering initiatives and product roadmaps.

You have what it takes if you have... 10-15+ years in software/cloud engineering, with 5+ years leading large teams and engineering managers. Proven hands-on expertise with AWS, GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation tools. Strong programming background in Java, .NET, Python, Groovy, and object-oriented design. Deep hands-on experience with key AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFormation/Terraform . Demonstrated experience modernizing monolithic systems into microservices or service-based architectures. Hands-on with Terraform , AWS CloudFormation to manage and version infrastructure. Ability to design modular, reusable infrastructure components across environments. Deep understanding of cloud-native practices, security, and observability tooling. Experience with relational databases: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL. Strong time management, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills. Master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

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