Senior Director, Cloud Managed Services - RapidScale

Location: Raleigh NC

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Company

Cox Communications, Inc.

Engineering / Product Development

Sr Director, Cloud Engineering

Sr DirectorHybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Yes, 25% of the time

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $197,600.00 - $329,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

JOB SUMMARY:

Senior Director of Cloud Managed Services

At RapidScale, exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. As a growing leader in secure, reliable managed cloud solutions, we help enterprises simplify IT and unleash innovation. With a broad portfolio spanning AWS, Azure and Google to a full set of Private Cloud and Cybersecurity solutions, RapidScale helps companies turn technology into their biggest competitive advantage. As part of the Cox family of companies, we offer best-in-class benefits, a commitment to work-life balance, and an award-winning workplace experience.

We are seeking a strategic and operationally driven Senior Director of Cloud Managed Services to provide enterprise leadership, strategic direction, and operational stewardship for our managed cloud operations. This high-impact role is accountable for shaping the long-term vision, operating model, and evolution of managed services while ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery at scale.

The Senior Director will serve as a key tactical and strategic partner to Professional Services, Cloud Technical Services, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders, translating RapidScale’s business priorities into durable, scalable managed services capabilities. This leader will drive operational maturity, automation, and platform-enabled service excellence to ensure customers achieve sustained performance, best-in-class reliability, and demonstrable business value across multi-cloud environments.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Strategic Growth & Service Expansion

• Develop and execute a multi-year roadmap for cloud managed services aligned to the company’s long-range plan
• Define and evolve the enterprise managed services framework, including globalization, security operations, compliance, and automation capabilities.
• Identify market, customer, and technology trends to shape future-state services and operating models that drive customer value and recurring revenue.

Operational & Financial Leadership

• Own end-to-end operational and financial performance for Managed Services, including revenue protection, margin optimization, cost-to-serve, and efficiency outcomes.
• Design and scale a hybrid global delivery model (in-house, near/offshore, partners) that ensures resiliency, scalability, and 24/7 service continuity.
• Establish and monitor enterprise KPIs, quality metrics, and financial indicators, using data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement and informed investment decisions.

Delivery & Service Excellence

• Oversee multi-region delivery, ensuring standardized SLAs, ITIL-aligned practices, and proactive health monitoring in service of consistent customer outcomes.
• Define and enforce enterprise service management standards, including continuous improvement through proactive monitoring, audits, root-cause analysis, and post-incident learnings.
• Own enterprise-impacting, multi-customer service events end-to-end, serving as the accountable executive for customer communications, cross-functional coordination, timely resolution, and post-incident root-cause analysis, ensuring both immediate stabilization and durable systemic improvements.

Team Leadership & Talent Development

• Build and mentor a high-performing team of engineers, architects, and operations managers.
• Own workforce strategy, including capacity planning, capability development and expansion, succession planning, and retention across Managed Services.
• Foster a culture of execution excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement consistent with enterprise leadership expectations.

Customer & Partner Engagement

• Partner with Cloud Delivery Services and Customer Success for seamless onboarding and lifecycle management.
• Serve as an executive escalation point for complex, high-impact customer situations
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with hyperscale partners (AWS, Azure, GCP) to optimize cloud spend and enhance service capabilities.

Innovation & Capability Growth

• Launch accelerators, self-service tools, and automation frameworks to scale delivery.
• Advance observability and telemetry practices to improve service intelligence and proactive detection.
• Contribute to cross-functional initiatives that improve customer retention, operational maturity, and long-term competitiveness.

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS degree with 12+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience (MS + 10 years of experience or P.D. + 7 years of experience or 16 years of experience with no degree)
• 7+ years of experience in a leadership role, including demonstrable experience building a managed services practice and significant revenue accountability at scale   
• Proven experience owning P&L, cost models, and operational performance for recurring services
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, presentation, and collaboration and emotional intelligence skills to work effectively with teams throughout organization
• Experience managing 24/7 cloud services, including hybrid and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, Citrix, Windows OS)
• Strong background in ITIL-based service management, automation frameworks, and cloud optimization
• ServiceNow platform experience (or equivalent platform) with a focus on ITSM strategy at scale
• Experience building and maintaining CIs and CMDB environments in a multi-tenant environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading global, multi-region service organizations supporting enterprise customers.
• Industry experiences supporting enterprise customers in regulated industries (e.g., Financial Services, Healthcare, SaaS).

• Relevant certifications such as AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Architect, VMWare, Citrix, ITIL, CISSP, or CISM.

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.Cox Communications is all about creating moments of real human connection; and for employees, that’s true both in the workplace and in the problems we solve for customers. From building advertising solutions to unleashing IoT technologies to creating an exceptional experience for customers in our retail locations and online, we’re creating a world that is smarter and more connected. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.

Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.