Head of Cloud Infrastructure
Core
Lead the modernization and scaling of shared cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) to support data-intensive products and engineering teams.
Role type
Director-level Head of Cloud Infrastructure (player-coach)
Builds
Shared cloud platform, SRE practices, DevOps tooling, and developer experience pipelines
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / SRE / DevOps / Data-intensive SaaS
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, SRE practices, disaster recovery strategy, on-call model design, cloud cost optimization, platform modernization, developer velocity improvement, roadmap execution, team leadership (3-10 engineers)
Preferred skills
Experience scaling data-intensive SaaS or analytics organizations, formal reliability practices (SLOs, incident management), self-service workflow design
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
Responsibilities
Set and execute cloud-infrastructure modernization roadmap; Lead a global team of infrastructure/SRE/DevOps engineers; Improve developer velocity via reusable infrastructure and self-service workflows; Establish reliability practices (SLIs/SLOs, incident management, observability); Own disaster-recovery strategy and readiness; Design sustainable 24/7 operational model; Partner with engineering leaders to define platform priorities; Measure progress across delivery performance and cloud unit economics; Improve cloud efficiency through cost attribution and capacity planning.
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC leadership
