We are looking for a strategic and technically grounded leader to join our infrastructure leadership team as Associate Director of Cloud Engineering. In this role, you will lead multiple cloud engineering teams—including Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), Systems Development Engineers (SDEs), and platform teams—focused on building and scaling resilient, secure, and cost-optimized cloud-native platforms.
As a step up from manager, this role requires you to operate at both strategic and execution levels—mentoring engineering managers, setting technical direction, and driving alignment across engineering, product, and security. You’ll own initiatives that improve system scalability, incident resilience, platform modernization, and FinOps maturity, while championing operational excellence and AWS best practices.
Key Responsibilities
Team & Organizational Leadership
- Lead and mentor multiple teams (including direct managers and senior ICs) across SRE, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering functions.
- Develop organizational structures and hiring strategies to scale engineering talent in alignment with company growth.
Promote a high-performance, inclusive engineering culture grounded in ownership, trust, and continuous learning.
Ensure the career development of team leads and senior engineers through coaching, feedback, and structured development plans.
Technical Strategy & Execution
Drive multi-team initiatives to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure leveraging AWS-native and serverless technologies (Lambda, ECS, EKS, Step Functions, etc.).
Lead the definition and execution of infrastructure platform roadmaps aligned with application needs, compliance requirements, and growth objectives.
Balance the delivery of short-term outcomes with long-term architectural evolution.
Incident & Issue Management at Scale
Oversee high-severity incident response and guide postmortem analysis with a focus on systemic prevention.
Institutionalize best practices in observability, SLOs/SLIs, and operational maturity across all teams.
Champion resilience engineering, capacity planning, and infrastructure fault tolerance.
FinOps, Governance & Cross-Functional Leadership
Drive adoption of FinOps practices, enforce cost tagging, and partner with finance and product teams on budgeting and forecasting.
Collaborate with Security, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to ensure cloud governance, policy enforcement, and audit readiness.
Lead cross-functional technical working groups and represent cloud engineering in broader architecture and infrastructure forums.
