Pacific Life · 1 week ago
Cloud Platforms Director
Newport Beach CA-700
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $220K/yr
10+ years expPacific Life is a company dedicated to providing financial security and support for its policyholders. They are seeking a Cloud Platforms Director to oversee the strategic direction of their cloud platforms, ensuring high availability, efficiency, and security while aligning with the organization's technology and business goals.
FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance
Responsibilities
Develop and execute a strategic roadmap for cloud platform engineering, aligning with business and IT objectives
Lead a team of cloud platform engineering professionals, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Oversee capacity planning, ensuring scalability and optimal resource utilization
Implement and maintain industry best practices for security, compliance, FinOps, and operational efficiency
Ensure highly responsive and detailed observability capabilities are in place across all cloud platforms
Collaborate with business and technology leadership to gather requirements and ensure the cloud platform meets the needs of our stakeholders and developer teams
Ensure the highest levels of uptime and reliability by developing and enforcing proactive maintenance strategies
Manage vendor relationships, negotiate contracts, and oversee third-party services for facility management and hardware procurement
Tie platform KPIs to business value and generate quarterly business reports
Develop and run a comprehensive service line in a global setting to run cloud workloads, backed by a service catalog and set of KPIs and KRIs to measure, track, report, and improve the service line and system performance
Develop and execute an overall cloud computing platform strategy with the right mix of on-premises infrastructure, public cloud, and hybrid cloud
Formalize disaster recovery and business continuity with automated tests to validate failover plans
Develop and enforce disaster recovery and business continuity plans to mitigate risks
Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge
Collaborate with executive leadership and stakeholders to align data center strategies with broader IT and business goals
Provides leadership to managers and professional staff. Develops departmental plans, including business, production and/or organizational priorities
Manage and oversee staff and technology platform operations across a global footprint including US, UK, and APAC regions
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in cloud platform management at scale, IT infrastructure, or related fields
4-year degree or equivalent experience
Ability to generate highly polished proposals, presentations, and other communications content that speaks to all levels of technical, business, and financial leaders
Proven track record of leading large-scale, global cloud platforms
Strong understanding of networking, server infrastructure, cloud technologies, and hybrid environments
Deep understanding of Zero Trust and modern IAM patterns (workload identities, JIT access, PAM in cloud)
Demonstrable expertise in GenAI capabilities, security risks, and governance controls for GenAI
Deep knowledge of compliance and security frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR
Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and pipeline orchestration
A demonstrated ability to build high-performance teams and mentor future leaders
Budgeting and financial management experience, including cost optimization strategies
Hands-on experience with disaster recovery planning, incident management, and operational risk mitigation
Familiarity with automation, monitoring, and management tools for optimizing data center performance
Experience working in regulated industries or high-availability environments (e.g., finance, healthcare, etc.)
Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to engage both technical teams and executive stakeholders
Preferred
AWS or other public CSP certifications (e.g. (Solutions Architect Pro, Security Spec), Azure (AZ‑305/SC‑100), GCP (Professional Cloud Architect)
Experience leading global, multi-site data center operations in a large enterprise environment
The ability to manage hybrid cloud infrastructures and integrate on-premises data centers with public cloud providers
Expertise and experience managing Kubernetes clusters, Infrastructure as Code, and other modern deployment paradigms
Experience implementing AI-driven data center optimization or automation strategies
Strong relationships within the industry and a deep understanding of emerging data center trends
Experience automating CMDB data updates for data center asset management
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
Paid Time Off
Holiday Schedules
Financial Planning Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Adoption Assistance Program
Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation
Company
Pacific Life
Pacific Life Insurance is an insurance company that provides life insurance products, annuities, and mutual funds.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (14)
2024 (9)
2023 (16)
2022 (19)
2021 (14)
2020 (17)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.44B2025-09-03Debt Financing· $750M
2025-06-18Debt Financing· $688.57M
Leadership Team
Howard Hirakawa
Senior Vice President, Fund Advisor Operations
Joe Krum
Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Global Institutional Investment Group
Recent News
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