SUMMARY:
Director of Cloud Engineering is responsible for the leadership and management of Xactus's cloud infrastructure across platforms such as Azure, AWS, and GCP. This role leads a cross-functional team of engineers and administrators, ensuring that cloud operations are secure, scalable, effectively maintained, and cost-efficient. The role carries strong operational leadership accountability, managing workstreams and workflows across the team and ensuring service levels and SLAs are consistently met.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:The following is a list of essential functions, which is subject to change at any time and without advance notice. Management may assign new duties, reassign existing duties, or eliminate a function based on business needs or at its sole discretion.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Lead and mentor a team of cloud engineers and systems administrators for multiple products.
- Establish and enforce best practices across cloud environments.
- Oversee team development and training to ensure proficiency in cloud technologies.
- Manage the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, and GCP). Collaborate with CISO, CTO, and engineering leaders to align cloud strategy with security, performance, and cost-efficiency goals. Drive the adoption of Terraform, Ansible, or similar IaC tools for automation and consistency.
- Provide operational leadership across the cloud engineering function, including managing day-to-day workstreams and workflows, prioritizing team capacity, and driving execution against commitments.
- Own SLA performance for cloud operations, ensuring uptime, incident response, and change management targets are consistently met and reported to leadership.
- Implement cloud governance practices in cooperation with Information Security team to manage risks and vulnerabilities.
- Work closely with information security teams to remediate vulnerabilities, adjust configurations, and ensure the cloud infrastructure meets evolving security requirements.
- Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, security, and cost efficiency.
- Provide regular reports on cloud performance and budgetary impacts to leadership.
QUALIFICATIONS:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:- 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure roles with at least 5 years in cloud engineering or architecture.
- Proven leadership experience managing remote, distributed teams, including ownership of team workstreams, workflows, and SLA-driven performance.
- Extensive experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, and related cloud platforms.
- Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect are highly desirable.
SKILLS AND COMPETENTCIES: - Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Ansible.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and multi-cloud strategies.
- Expertise in automation, scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash), and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or GitHub Actions).
- Experience administering and scaling GitHub Enterprise, including repository governance, access controls, and workflow automation.
- Demonstrated operational leadership skills, able to manage competing workstreams, coordinate cross-team workflows, and hold the team accountable to SLA commitments.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and project management skills.
WORKING CONDITIONS:- Traditional office environment with low-to-moderate office noise (computers, phones and business conversations). The position may be remote from main offices.
- May require flexibility in hours.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:- Lifting/carrying up to 10 lbs.
- Manual dexterity for computer work
- Speaking, hearing and vision are required to perform essential functions.
