Director, Cloud Engineering

Core Responsibilities

The Director, Cloud Engineering oversees the strategy, operation, security, governance, and financial stewardship of Magnet’s cloud platform and shared engineering services. This leadership role ensures the cloud platform supports rapid product innovation while maintaining reliability, security, compliance, and cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the cloud platform strategy to align with Magnet’s SaaS products and long-term business goals.
• Establish operational excellence practices, including service reliability, observability, incident management, disaster recovery, and platform governance.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to deliver highly available and scalable cloud services.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve platform consistency, operational maturity, and engineering effectiveness.
• Champion platform architecture standards and participate in technical governance and architectural reviews.

• Lead cloud platform readiness for security and compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP and other regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Security and Compliance teams to implement secure-by-default platforms, policies, and operational controls.
• Drive vulnerability management, security remediation, and platform-wide operational security initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging regulatory and sovereign cloud requirements and develop global customer support strategies.

• Own cloud cost governance, forecasting, budgeting, and optimization programs across the organization.
• Develop and maintain cloud financial management practices for transparency and accountability.
• Align technology investments with business priorities in collaboration with Finance and Engineering leaders.
• Introduce automation and operational tooling to improve forecasting accuracy and cost visibility.
• Establish frameworks balancing innovation, performance, and cost control.

• Drive responsible adoption of AI technologies across Engineering and Shared Services.
• Evaluate, operationalize, and govern AI platforms, services, and tooling.
• Develop strategies for monitoring, managing, and optimizing AI-related infrastructure and spend.
• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, operational efficiency, and decision-making through AI-enabled workflows.
• Partner with business and engineering stakeholders to maximize value from AI investments.

• Lead evaluation, selection, negotiation, and lifecycle management of cloud providers, technology platforms, and engineering tools.
• Develop strategic relationships with key technology vendors and service providers.
• Manage major cloud and software licensing agreements.
• Assess emerging technologies and vendors to ensure Magnet operates with modern, efficient, and scalable platforms.

• Build, develop, and lead high-performing cloud and platform engineering teams.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Improve developer experience by reducing friction, enhancing tooling, and enabling self-service platform capabilities.
• Create an environment where engineering teams can build, deploy, and operate software efficiently and reliably.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or related technical disciplines.

• 5+ years of leadership experience managing engineering managers and/or technical teams.

• Deep expertise with public cloud platforms, preferably AWS.

• Experience with building and maintaining a private cloud infrastructure.

• Experience operating large-scale SaaS platforms in production environments.

• Strong understanding of cloud security, compliance, governance, and risk management.

• Experience with cloud financial management, budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization.

• Proven track record leading cross-functional strategic initiatives.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.

• Experience evaluating and managing technology vendors and strategic partnerships.

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience supporting FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance frameworks.
• Experience building platform engineering or developer experience organizations.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning infrastructure, governance, and operational practices.
• Experience leading identity and access management initiatives.
• Knowledge of observability, cloud operations, and reliability engineering practices.
• Experience working within high-growth SaaS organizations.