Engineering Team Lead - Cloud Stability

Details

The Cloud Stability team manages Bloomberg’s private cloud, a critical infrastructure platform hosting more than 100,000 virtual machines that support key applications, including the Bloomberg Terminal and News systems. The team is responsible for cloud service reliability, fleet-wide observability, infrastructure maintenance and failure response, predictive capacity planning, and automation using tools such as Ansible, Airflow, and Flask.

Bloomberg Cloud Compute (BCC) is an in-house cloud based on open-source technologies including OpenStack and Ceph. The private cloud also includes a VMware-based commercial software cloud.

The Team Lead will define and drive the strategic execution of private cloud operations, ensure the cloud supports Bloomberg’s engineering workflows, develop a future-state vision for cloud operations, and build partnerships across internal and external teams.

Responsibilities

• Set a capacity management strategy that accounts for real-time capacity changes and planned demand.
• Develop orchestration to coordinate competing automation.
• Enable twice-annual reboots of a fleet of approximately 7,000 servers.
• Expand BCC’s global footprint with new production clusters.
• Inspire and motivate the team while supporting individual growth and development.
• Build partnerships with internal teams and external stakeholders to understand problems and align solutions with expectations.
• Organize and prioritize the team’s backlog with stakeholders to ensure the most important and impactful work is addressed first.
• Work with engineers to deliver high-quality solutions that follow best practices.
• Develop a vision for an optimally operated cloud and a roadmap for achieving it.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience as a Team Lead for a software development team.
• Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technology field.
• Deep knowledge of software development best practices and hands-on ability to coach developers.
• Ability to foster a collaborative team environment and promote teamwork and inclusion.
• Strong listening, communication, challenging, and influencing skills when working with team members, peers, and senior managers.
• Experience building trusted relationships with stakeholders to support cross-team collaboration and alignment.
• Solid foundation in software development, including code quality, modular design, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and maintainability.
• Ability to reason about system behavior, failure domains, and scaling characteristics to guide stability, reliability, and performance.
• Architectural fluency across compute, storage, networking, and orchestration technologies.

Preferred Experience

• OpenStack.
• Cloud infrastructure or Site Reliability Engineering teams.
• Virtual networking and Software-Defined Networking.
• Workflow orchestrators such as Airflow and AWX/Ansible.
• Unix and distributed systems.
• Agile Scrum.

Benefits

Benefits may include merit increases, incentive compensation for exempt roles, paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability benefits, 401(k) matching, life insurance, and wellness programs.