Director of Cloud Engineering & DevOps

The Big Picture

We are looking for a highly technical, hand-on Director of Cloud Engineering & DevOps to own and evolve our Microsoft Azure platform that powers our e-commerce, mobile, and internal systems. This leader will be directly responsible for designing, building, and operating a modern cloud infrastructure that supports high-traffic digital experiences and mission-critical services.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, performance, security, and reliability of our Azure infrastructure.
• Design, build, and optimize scalable cloud solutions using Azure App Services, Function Apps, Storage Accounts, Application Insights, Key Vault, Front Door, Application Gateway, and Azure DNS.
• Establish best practices for scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
• Partner with engineering teams to improve application performance, reliability, and deployment strategies through CI/CD automation.
• Lead production incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term infrastructure improvements.
• Define and own our observability strategy, including monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and distributed tracing.
• Architect and optimize networking, traffic routing, DNS, and global performance.
• Drive cloud cost optimization through right-sizing, scaling strategies, and governance.
• Mentor and lead a high-performing infrastructure team while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure (this is a must-have).
• Proven experience designing and operating production systems using: App Services and Function Apps, Azure networking (Front Door, Application Gateway, VNets, DNS), Application Insights and observability tooling, Key Vault and secure secret management.
• Strong experience supporting Node.js / API-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM, etc.).
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to own and resolve production incidents.
• Strong understanding of scalability, resiliency, and distributed systems.