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Director of Cloud Operations

3 months, 3 weeks ago
United States
Full-time
Executive
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
DevOps and Infrastructure
AWS CI/CD CircleCI Datadog Kubernetes Microservices .NET Serverless Terraform
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Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2008
$47M raised
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Description

  • Own the availability, performance, and resilience of the multi-region AWS platform.
  • Drive reliability improvements using SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and proactive engineering practices.
  • Lead efforts to reduce MTTR and improve incident response across the organization.
  • Guide architecture decisions for microservices, Kubernetes (EKS), and serverless workloads.
  • Advance the observability strategy using Datadog to provide actionable insights across infrastructure and applications.
  • Establish and refine incident management practices, including on-call processes, escalation paths, and post-incident reviews.
  • Act as incident commander for critical events and participate in the on-call rotation.
  • Improve operational standards through automation, standardization, and modern best practices.
  • Drive cost optimization across AWS environments without sacrificing performance or reliability.
  • Lead, mentor, and support a distributed CloudOps team across the US and UK.
  • Oversee operations of a legacy .NET-based solution in private data centers in the US and Europe.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, SRE, or DevOps roles.
  • Recent experience leading CloudOps or SRE teams.
  • Proven experience leading operational or platform transformations in a SaaS environment.
  • Experience operating multi-region, customer-facing systems at scale.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS multi-region architectures.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS) and containerized environments.
  • Infrastructure as Code experience, with Terraform preferred.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as CircleCI or similar tools.
  • Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog or equivalent tools.
  • Solid understanding of microservices and distributed systems design.
  • Familiarity with serverless architectures and modern cloud-native patterns.
  • Deep experience with incident management, on-call operations, and reliability engineering practices.
  • Strong understanding of SLO/SLI frameworks, monitoring strategies, and performance optimization.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical work with team leadership.
  • Collaborative and pragmatic leadership style with ability to influence across teams.
  • Passion for building and supporting high-performing teams.
  • Bias toward continuous improvement and measurable outcomes.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $200,000 to $228,000.
  • Excellent PTO program.
  • Great health benefits.
  • Remote work arrangement.
  • Casual and friendly work environment.
  • Leadership team committed to personal and professional growth.
  • Inclusive, high-growth environment where ideas are rewarded.
  • Opportunity to make a direct impact on reliability, scalability, and customer experience.

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