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Join Our Team! Sunbelt Rentals strives to be the customer s first choice in the equipment rental industry. From pumps to scaffolding to general construction tools, we aim to be the only call needed to outfit a job site with the proper equipment. Not only do we offer a vast fleet that ranks among the best in the industry, we pair it all with a friendly and knowledgeable staff. Our employees are our greatest asset, and although we present a comprehensive equipment offering, our expertise and service are what truly distinguish us from the competition. We pride ourselves on investing in our workforce and offer competitive benefits, as well as extensive on-the-job training for all eligible employees. As a highly successful national company, we are constantly looking for talented individuals to support our growth. If you are interested in pursuing a rewarding career, we invite you to review our opportunities! Job Description Summary Position Objective: Leads operations for public and private cloud infrastructure, ensuring services remain secure, resilient, scalable, cost-effective, and consistently managed. This working manager role requires cloud architect-level judgment and hands-on capability across hybrid architecture, landing zones, identity, networking, compute, storage, security, data protection, automation, and recovery. Position Responsibilities: · Manage and develop engineers responsible for public cloud, private cloud, virtualization, compute, storage, backup, operating systems, and related infrastructure services. · Mature hybrid cloud operations strategy, service catalog, reference architectures, landing-zone standards, support model, capacity plan, lifecycle roadmap, and improvement backlog. · Oversee day-to-day service health, incident response, problem management, change execution, patching, vulnerability remediation, configuration, capacity, backup, recovery, and operational readiness. · Provide hands-on architecture review and escalation support for complex cloud, virtualization, compute, storage, backup, operating system, identity, network, automation, security, and recovery issues. · Ensure cloud and infrastructure services meet availability, performance, security, compliance, data protection, and disaster recovery requirements. · Implement consistent landing-zone, identity, network, tagging, policy, logging, monitoring, backup, and configuration standards across public and private cloud estates. · Serve as the cloud architecture authority for workload placement, platform guardrails, resilience, connectivity, identity integration, cost optimization, and production readiness. · Drive infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, policy as code, self-service provisioning, configuration compliance, and standardized hybrid cloud deployment patterns. · Define and report service-level objectives, reliability indicators, capacity trends, risk, technical debt, asset lifecycle, cloud consumption, and unit-cost metrics. · Lead major incident response and root-cause analysis for infrastructure events, ensuring corrective actions are assigned, tracked, and validated. · Partner across teams to deliver secure, supportable, cost-effective cloud infrastructure solutions. · Manage strategic vendors, managed service providers, licensing, contracts, budgets, forecasts, and optimization commitments. · Maintain tested recovery plans, operational documentation, runbooks, escalation paths, and audit-ready evidence. Requirements: · Strong people leadership and operational management skills, including prioritization, performance management, service ownership, and executive communication. · Cloud architect-level understanding of Azure, AWS, or GCP; virtualization; Windows and Linux; compute, storage, backup, networking, identity, monitoring, security, resilience, automation, and cost management. · Hands-on proficiency with cloud architecture review, hybrid cloud operations, infrastructure troubleshooting, automation, scripting, cloud governance controls, backup and recovery practices, monitoring, and production support. · Practical understanding of cloud reference architectures, landing zones, governance, security controls, resilience patterns, disaster recovery, FinOps, infrastructure as code, workload migration, modernization, and IT service management. · Ability to evaluate cloud solution designs, identify architectural risks, recommend tradeoffs, and guide implementation teams toward secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally supportable outcomes. · Ability to collaborate effectively with IT Systems and Enterprise Architecture to align solution designs, operational standards, infrastructure patterns, integration requirements, and platform roadmaps. · Ability to manage complex incidents, technical risk, capacity constraints, vendor performance, and competing business priorities. · Strong analytical, financial, negotiation, documentation, and continuous-improvement capabilities. Education & Experience: · Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. · 8 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud architecture, data center infrastructure, systems engineering, or technology operations. · 3 years of formal people-management or equivalent team leadership experience. · Experience designing and operating business-critical hybrid cloud services at enterprise scale is required; cloud architect, cloud engineering, ITIL, security, or FinOps certifications are preferred. Physical Demands: Must be able to bend, squat, crouch and/or reach and lift up to 25 pounds or more, as required by the job. Some Sunbelt jobs may require driving for long periods of time, loading and unloading heavy equipment, performing work in extreme weather conditions including rain, wind, or excessive temperatures and/or night and weekend work. All duties must be performed according to Sunbelt’s safety policies and guidelines. Reasonable accommodations may be made to comply with ADA/ADAAA. The above description covers the principal duties and responsibilities of the job. The description shall not, however, be construed as a complete listing of all miscellaneous, incidental, or similar duties which may be required from day to day. Sunbelt Rentals is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran and any other protected ground. Base Pay Range: $130,315.00 - 179,183.40 Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. Please visit sunbeltrentals.com for more information on our benefits and to join our Talent Network. Sunbelt also provides a comprehensive benefits package to its full-time employees. This package includes: Health, Dental and Vision plans 401(k) Match Volunteer time off Short-term and long-term disability Accident, Life and Travel insurance, as well as flexible spending Tuition Reimbursement Options Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Length of Service Awards You will become eligible for benefits on the first of the month following 30 days from your start date. Sunbelt offers team members the following paid time off from work, subject to Sunbelt’s policies (unless specified in a collective bargaining agreement): 12-25 vacation days depending on years of service 5 sick days 6 holidays 2 half day holidays 2 floating holidays 1 inclusion day 1 volunteer day Gear up for an exciting career! Sunbelt Rentals supports service members. Veterans encouraged to apply.

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Join Our Team!
We pride ourselves on investing in our workforce and offer competitive benefits, as well as extensive on-the-job training for all eligible employees.
As a highly successful national company, we are constantly looking for talented individuals to support our growth. If you are interested in pursuing a rewarding career, we invite you to review our opportunities!
Job Description Summary
Manage and develop engineers responsible for public cloud, private cloud, virtualization, compute, storage, backup, operating systems, and related infrastructure services.
Mature hybrid cloud operations strategy, service catalog, reference architectures, landing-zone standards, support model, capacity plan, lifecycle roadmap, and improvement backlog.
Oversee day-to-day service health, incident response, problem management, change execution, patching, vulnerability remediation, configuration, capacity, backup, recovery, and operational readiness.
Provide hands-on architecture review and escalation support for complex cloud, virtualization, compute, storage, backup, operating system, identity, network, automation, security, and recovery issues.
Ensure cloud and infrastructure services meet availability, performance, security, compliance, data protection, and disaster recovery requirements.
Implement consistent landing-zone, identity, network, tagging, policy, logging, monitoring, backup, and configuration standards across public and private cloud estates.
Serve as the cloud architecture authority for workload placement, platform guardrails, resilience, connectivity, identity integration, cost optimization, and production readiness.
Drive infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, policy as code, self-service provisioning, configuration compliance, and standardized hybrid cloud deployment patterns.
Define and report service-level objectives, reliability indicators, capacity trends, risk, technical debt, asset lifecycle, cloud consumption, and unit-cost metrics.
Lead major incident response and root-cause analysis for infrastructure events, ensuring corrective actions are assigned, tracked, and validated.
Partner across teams to deliver secure, supportable, cost-effective cloud infrastructure solutions.
Manage strategic vendors, managed service providers, licensing, contracts, budgets, forecasts, and optimization commitments.
Maintain tested recovery plans, operational documentation, runbooks, escalation paths, and audit-ready evidence.
Strong people leadership and operational management skills, including prioritization, performance management, service ownership, and executive communication.
Cloud architect-level understanding of Azure, AWS, or GCP; virtualization; Windows and Linux; compute, storage, backup, networking, identity, monitoring, security, resilience, automation, and cost management.
Ability to evaluate cloud solution designs, identify architectural risks, recommend tradeoffs, and guide implementation teams toward secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally supportable outcomes.
Ability to collaborate effectively with IT Systems and Enterprise Architecture to align solution designs, operational standards, infrastructure patterns, integration requirements, and platform roadmaps.
Ability to manage complex incidents, technical risk, capacity constraints, vendor performance, and competing business priorities.
Strong analytical, financial, negotiation, documentation, and continuous-improvement capabilities.

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Experience designing and operating business-critical hybrid cloud services at enterprise scale is required; cloud architect, cloud engineering, ITIL, security, or FinOps certifications are preferred.

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