Senior Director of Cloud

Senior Director of Cloud – Platform Reliability & Cloud Governance

A global enterprise operating in a highly regulated environment is seeking a senior technology leader to oversee Platform Reliability, Cloud Strategy, Governance, and Engineering Operations.

This role will lead enterprise-scale initiatives across SRE, cloud architecture, operational governance, FinOps/SecOps collaboration, and engineering performance reporting. The successful candidate will shape long-term platform strategy while driving reliability, scalability, compliance, and operational excellence across modern cloud environments.

Key focus areas:

• Scaling mature Site Reliability Engineering practices (SLOs, SLAs, incident management, automation)

• Defining cloud governance and enterprise architecture standards across AWS/Azure/GCP

• Leading platform compliance, audit remediation, and operational risk management

• Driving observability, KPI reporting, and data-led engineering decisions

• Partnering with Product, PMO, Security, and Infrastructure leadership on strategic platform delivery

• Building and mentoring high-performing engineering leadership teams

Ideal background:

• 15+ years in cloud engineering, infrastructure, or platform reliability

• Proven leadership within complex, regulated environments

• Deep expertise across Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure governance

• Experience leading enterprise SRE or platform engineering functions at scale

• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management capability

Compensation Package:

• $250-300k base

• 35% annual bonus

• 25+ days PTO

• Health, Vision, Dental & Life Packages

• 401k Match 6%

Experience within financial services, fintech, or other regulated industries is highly desirable.

This is a hybrid role, based out of Chicago.