Technical Manager - Secure Cloud Transformation

Employment Type: Full time Location Type: Fully Remote (Continental U.S.)

Position Overview

Optiv is seeking a Technical Manager to join our Secure Cloud Transformation practice. In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the successful delivery of a portfolio of client engagements. You will provide technical delivery oversight, manage client relationships, and lead project management efforts to deliver measurable client outcomes. Your deep expertise in AWS and/or Azure, Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) such as Wiz, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) will directly enable our clients to securely mature their cloud environments. You will guide a team of consultants and ensure our engagements meet our high-quality standards for client satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the technical delivery of a portfolio of client engagements, ensuring each engagement fulfills client goals.
• Manage engagement scope, timelines, budget, and client expectations to ensure successful and timely delivery of engagement outcomes.
• Craft detailed end-to-end engagement plans and ensure full alignment between signed Statement of Work (SOW) and engagement delivery artifacts.
• Manage client stakeholder expectations and clearly communicate scope and deliverables throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Act as the primary escalation point for technical and project-related issues, providing resolution guidance and leadership.
• Provide strategic and technical guidance on cloud strategy, architecture, governance, and secure migration.
• Lead client workshops and maturity sessions with a focus on providing actionable recommendations for clients to adopt secure cloud practices.
• Provide consistent and high-quality technical delivery across a portfolio of engagements with a focus on secure cloud strategy and architecture, migration, remediation, and maturity of client cloud environments.
• Lead the deployment and configuration of CNAPP solutions (e.g., Wiz) to enhance cloud security visibility and management capabilities.
• Oversee the development and management of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates using Terraform to drive secure deployments.
• Create high-quality client deliverables using PowerPoint, Word, Excel, PowerBI, and Visio to articulate technical designs, strategic recommendations, and engagement outcomes.
• Conduct periodic engagement milestone readouts with clients to incorporate feedback and proactively manage engagement risks and dependencies.
• Complete administrative tasks related to project delivery such as resource allocation, project tracking, and status reporting.

Practice Development & Collaboration

• Establish and maintain productive relationships with consultants, practice leadership, and client stakeholders.
• Actively contribute to practice development initiatives and improving operational efficiency on projects.
• Confirm that work is of the highest quality as per Optiv’s quality standards by peer reviewing the work provided by team members.
• Actively engage in internal practice development including creating reusable assets, documentation standards, deliverable templates, and thought leadership contributions.
• Actively participate in internal knowledge-sharing and thought leadership initiatives to enhance the capabilities of our practice.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge through continuous learning, industry conferences, certifications, reviewing professional publications, and thought leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and approximately 5-7 years of related consulting and technical management experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing and delivering multiple cloud transformation engagements.
• Approximately 5 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and securing cloud environments using AWS and/or Azure.
• Deep technical experience in at least one major CNAPP platform (i.e., Wiz, Crow...).
• Deep technical experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform).

Company Information

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