Senior Manager, Cloud Center of Excellence – Systems Engineering

Arlo Technologies, Inc.

Sr. Manager overseeing Cloud Center of Excellence and Systems Engineering at an innovative security tech firm.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $270,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDynamoDBTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and evolve cloud engineering standards, architectural patterns, and operational baselines
Drive FinOps practices: cost monitoring, rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, and budget forecasting
Build and maintain a best-practices knowledge base: design patterns, IaC standards, common cloud service libraries, and observability playbooks
Evaluate emerging tools and technologies (AI infrastructure, edge compute, etc.) and translate findings into adoption roadmaps
Run office hours, workshops, and documentation programs to upskill engineers on cloud-native design — lowering the barrier to doing things the right way
Partner with the SRE organization on post-mortem learnings; translate findings into updated standards and training
Manage and grow a team of DevOps and Systems Engineers; own hiring, performance, and career development
Own the development, versioning, and lifecycle of common libraries shared across cloud services
Deliver shared platform tooling and internal developer platform capabilities; partner with the Engineering Tools team on CI/CD integration
Drive adoption of the Arlo Cloud Platform — cell-based, AZ-bounded architecture and semver’d operational baselines — through enablement, not mandates
Collaborate with Security and Compliance to embed governance into platform delivery
Serve as the senior technical voice on cloud standards; build trusted relationships with engineering leads across all teams
Represent the team to executive stakeholders; influence investment decisions with data-driven insights

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of software or cloud/platform engineering experience, with 3+ years in engineering management
Deep expertise in AWS (EKS, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, Cost Explorer) and IaC tooling (Terraform, CDK, or equivalent)
Experience designing and maintaining shared libraries or platform SDKs consumed by multiple teams
Demonstrated ability to define and enforce engineering standards across a large, multi-team organization
FinOps mindset: experience managing and optimizing cloud costs at scale
Strong communicator — able to translate technical topics for both engineers and executives.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation
Equity
Genuine commitment to your growth

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud engineeringFinOpsInfrastructure as Code (IaC)AWSTerraformCDKshared librariesplatform SDKsCI/CDcost optimization

Soft Skills

communicationleadershipcollaborationinfluencetrainingmentoringrelationship buildingproblem-solvingorganizational skillstechnical translation