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Manager IT Cloud Engineering

The Hartford

Danbury, Connecticut, United StatesOn Site

Original Job Summary

Manager IT Cloud Engineering

At The Hartford, we are proud to be an insurance company determined to make a difference. Join our team to help shape the future by leading our Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) platform. This role combines hands-on engineering with team leadership and strategic oversight.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering and delivery of cloud-native IDP solutions using AWS and third-party platforms.
  • Manage a team of engineers and collaborate with data scientists, architects, and business stakeholders.
  • Oversee development and optimization of automated workflows for document ingestion, classification, extraction, and validation.
  • Drive performance tuning, cost optimization, and infrastructure resilience.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and fault-tolerant mechanisms to ensure platform reliability.
  • Own technical documentation including architecture diagrams, deployment guides, and runbooks.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to the platform roadmap and strategic planning.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
  • 7+ years in cloud engineering with 2+ years in leadership.
  • Expertise in AWS (Lambda, S3, Step Functions, ECS, IAM).
  • Strong programming in .NET and Python for scalable backend services.
  • Experience with OCR, NLP, machine learning, containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Proven ability to troubleshoot complex systems and implement resilient cloud architectures.
  • AWS certifications and experience with GenAI-powered IDP platforms.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
  • Experience with .NET 8, Power Automate, Tableau, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.
  • Candidate must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship.

Work Arrangement & Compensation

This role follows a Hybrid work schedule with in-office presence 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) at one of the following locations: Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC. The annualized base pay range is $136,800 - $205,200, with additional rewards such as bonuses and long-term incentives.

Key skills/competency

  • Cloud Engineering
  • AWS
  • Leadership
  • IDP
  • .NET
  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • Terraform
  • OCR

How to Get Hired at The Hartford

🎯 Tips for Getting Hired

  • Customize resume: Tailor your resume to cloud and leadership skills.
  • Highlight experience: Emphasize AWS, .NET and Python projects.
  • Showcase leadership: Detail successful team management experiences.
  • Prepare examples: Demonstrate handling complex cloud solutions.

📝 Interview Preparation Advice

Technical Preparation

Review AWS service configurations.
Practice .NET and Python coding challenges.
Familiarize with container orchestration best practices.
Study infrastructure-as-code tool usage.

Behavioral Questions

Describe your team leadership approach.
Explain a challenge in cloud scalability.
Discuss decision-making under pressure.
Share an example of conflict resolution.