Director of Cloud Engineering
JumpCloud
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: India
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About the role
- Spearhead the strategic roadmap for global infrastructure, IDP adoption, and regional expansion.
- Cultivate a world-class engineering organization, mentoring senior leaders to foster technical excellence and professional growth.
- Direct the cloud financial strategy, optimizing unit economics and driving cost predictability via advanced governance.
- Instill operational excellence by eliminating toil through strategic automation and AI-driven workflows.
- Drive developer velocity by implementing practices and strategies that drastically reduce change lead time.
- Orchestrate stack modernization to eliminate technical debt.
Requirements
- 15+ years of engineering experience, with 4+ years at the Director level or equivalent, managing managers and overseeing organizations of 20+ engineers.
- Proven track record leading large-scale cloud operations (AWS or GCP) in a distributed, microservices or cell-based environment.
- Demonstrated success in managing significant cloud budgets and driving cost-efficiency programs without sacrificing availability.
- Ability to define long-term architectural visions (e.g., moving from monolith to decoupled services) and the leadership skills to rally the organization behind them.
- You treat the Platform as a Product and focus on "Customer Satisfaction."
- Familiarity with measuring success through metrics like DORA, Developer Satisfaction Scores, or service adoption rates.
- Experience acting as an executive escalation point for major incidents, bringing calm and structured problem-solving to high-pressure situations.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with multi-cloud strategies and global region build-outs.
- Background in modernizing legacy infrastructure (e.g., migrating to Kubernetes, adopting OpenTofu/Terraform).
- Experience with high-scale networking, traffic engineering, or edge computing strategies.
Benefits
- JumpCloud is an equal opportunity employer.
- All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud operationsAWSGCPmicroservicesKubernetesOpenTofuTerraformtraffic engineeringedge computingautomation
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcustomer satisfactionoperational excellencecommunicationcollaborationcalm under pressureorganizational skills