Director of Cloud and DevOps

What You’ll Be Doing

• Strategic Leadership
• Develop and implement cloud and DevOps strategies aligned with organizational goals, architectural standards, security requirements, and business growth objectives.
• Provide strategic direction and oversight for cloud platform engineering, infrastructure automation, DevOps tooling, and operational excellence practices.
• Develop and oversee disaster recovery, resilience, and business continuity strategies for cloud-based services, ensuring critical systems can be recovered and restored with minimal disruption.
• Establish cloud governance, vendor management, and platform standards to optimize spend, maximize value, and reduce operational risk.
• Provide audit, compliance, and risk management support by ensuring operational controls, security guardrails, and policy-driven automation are in place across cloud platforms.
• Cloud Platform and DevOps Management
• Oversee the daily operations of cloud platforms and DevOps teams, ensuring high availability, scalability, reliability, and supportability of services for internal and customer-facing applications.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure, container platforms, networking, identity, and supporting services while partnering closely with application development teams.
• Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and developer enablement tooling with measurable service levels, quality gates, and governance.
• Implement key performance metrics for cloud and DevOps effectiveness, including availability, deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, recovery time, and platform adoption.
• Oversee incident response, problem management, and reliability practices, including post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, and resilience improvements.
• Lead operational security practices in partnership with security leadership, embedding DevSecOps controls and secure-by-default patterns across the delivery lifecycle.
• Ensure access controls, patching, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and system hardening processes are defined, automated where practical, and managed effectively.
• Drive continuous improvement in cloud operations through infrastructure as code, automation, self-service capabilities, and reduction of manual operational toil.
• Cloud Architecture, Reliability, and Enablement
• Oversee the design and evolution of cloud landing zones, shared services, deployment patterns, and reliability frameworks that support secure and scalable growth.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, security, and data teams to improve platform reliability, developer experience, and operational consistency across environments.
• Define cloud architecture standards, governance models, and engineering guardrails, including infrastructure as code, configuration management, observability, and environment consistency.
• Champion continuous improvement of platform services through automation, reusable patterns, service-level objectives, and data-driven operational reviews.
• Team Leadership and Development
• Track and manage multiple priorities and backlogs across cloud platform, automation, reliability, and DevOps initiatives.
• Manage and mentor cloud, platform, DevOps, and site reliability engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, automation, collaboration, and professional development.
• Cook up coordination with cross-functional teams to align cloud strategy, release practices, reliability goals, and platform roadmaps with business and engineering priorities.
• Develop strong partnerships with business and technology leaders to continuously improve delivery capabilities, operational resilience, and service outcomes.
• Oversee managed service providers and engineering partners, balancing internal capability development with targeted external expertise.
• Budget and Vendor Management
• Develop and manage the cloud platform and DevOps budget, ensuring cost-effective investments in infrastructure, tooling, automation, and engineering enablement.
• Negotiate and manage contracts with cloud providers, platform vendors, and strategic service partners.
• Drive regular business reviews with key vendors, monitor cloud consumption, and establish FinOps practices to improve cost transparency and value realization.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement
• Measure what you manage by establishing clear operational, engineering, and financial metrics for cloud and DevOps performance.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in cloud, platform engineering, DevOps, observability, and automation.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement initiatives that modernize cloud operations, accelerate software delivery, and improve reliability and security outcomes.
• Continuously evaluate and implement appropriate automation, orchestration, and self-service technologies to improve scale, speed, and consistency.

What You’ll Bring To The Table

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with AWS specifically.
• Knowledge and experience with Microsoft Azure is preferred.
• Proven experience managing cloud environments, automation programs, and modern software delivery platforms.
• Skills and Competencies: Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and security services.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps and platform engineering practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerization, and automation.
• Strong understanding of balancing engineering priorities, delivering cost-effective solutions, and improving business outcomes through scalable cloud platforms.
• In-depth understanding of reliability engineering, observability, incident management, governance, and security best practices in cloud environments.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience selecting and managing cloud providers, platform vendors, and strategic consulting partners.
• Ability to manage multiple rapidly changing priorities while maintaining detail-oriented and effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to think strategically and execute effectively in a fast-paced, transformation-oriented environment.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities with a focus on automation, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Proven track record of successfully attracting, developing, and leading high-performing cloud and DevOps teams.