Associate Director, Global Cloud Platform

Location: CAFLO: Carrier-Home Florida Remote Location, Remote City, FL, 33412 USA

Remote Type: Remote

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

About Carrier

Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure safe transport of food, lifesaving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow on Carrier social media at @Carrier.

About This Role

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Carriers global cloud platforms, enabling secure, scalable, and cost-efficient digital infrastructure services across the enterprise.
• Accelerate application delivery and business innovation through reusable platform services, infrastructure automation, self-service capabilities, and modern cloud engineering practices.
• Establish cloud platforms as enterprise products that improve developer experience, strengthen governance, and create a consistent operating model across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the global Cloud Platform organization responsible for AWS, Azure, and GCP platform engineering, cloud governance, identity, networking, automation, and self-service infrastructure capabilities.
• Define and execute the enterprise cloud platform strategy, driving standardization, security, reliability, operational excellence, cost optimization (FinOps), and developer velocity through automation and platform engineering practices.
• Manage and develop a global team of cloud engineers, architects, and FinOps professionals while partnering closely with Cybersecurity, Cloud Operations, Application Teams, and external service providers to deliver business outcomes.

 

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/ GED
• 10+ years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or enterprise technology leadership, including experience leading globally distributed teams.
• Cloud architect certification (AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Architect, and/or GCP Professional Cloud Architect).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.

• Deep expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP), Infrastructure as Code, cloud security and governance, automation, CI/CD, FinOps, and platform engineering operating models.
• Experience leading platform transformations, cloud migrations, and enterprise-scale cloud governance programs.
• Strong executive communication, vendor management, financial management, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Pay Range

The annual salary for this position is between $143,000.00 - $286,000.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate. The pay range will not be below the minimum wage applicable to the jurisdiction in which the applicant is to be employed.

Other Compensation

This position is entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.

Benefits

Employees are eligible for benefits, including:

• Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives

• Retirement Benefits

• Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation

• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability

• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment

• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account

• Tuition Assistance

To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here Work with us | Carrier Corporate. The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Carrier EEO Statement and Accommodations Process

Carrier is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status or any other applicable state or federal protected class. Carrier provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with section 503 of Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, participate in an interview, or otherwise engage in the hiring process, please contact us at Carrier.Recruiting@carrier.com. We will make every effort to meet your needs in accordance with applicable laws.

Application Deadline

Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days from Job Posting Date: 15 October 2026

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Use of AI

Technology-enabled tools may support parts of the recruitment process, with oversight by people.