Confidential Jobs ยท 1 day ago
Director, AWS Cloud Platform & Operations (Tampa - Hybrid) $175K
Confidential Jobs is seeking a Senior Director, Cloud Platform & Operations to lead the transformation of their technology foundation into a standardized, cloud-native SaaS platform primarily built on AWS. This hands-on leadership role focuses on improving platform reliability, developer experience, and operational excellence while ensuring compliance and security in a regulated environment.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Own platform reliability, availability, performance, and scalability across production and non-production environments
Establish and evolve SRE-aligned practices, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and proactive reliability engineering
Drive adoption of self-service infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling that improves speed and quality
Eliminate manual processes by embedding operational knowledge, controls, and compliance into platforms and automation
Lead the evolution from customer-specific and legacy deployments to a standardized, multi-tenant SaaS platform on AWS
Define and execute a cloud platform strategy that supports scalability, resilience, cost efficiency, and rapid product delivery
Leadership of existing Desktop, Cloud Architecture and Hardware teams onsite, who provide excellent service to internal employees and new hires on laptops, workstations, etc
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in cloud platforms, infrastructure, or operations roles, including team leadership experience
Collaborate and lead Operations, Desktop and Infrastructure teams onsite in the Tampa office at least 3 days per week
Deep hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Terraform/CloudFormation)
Proven success leading cloud-native transformations at scale
Strong experience with automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and DevOps/SRE practices
Demonstrated ability to operate in regulated environments, preferably healthcare or life sciences
Strong executive communication skills and ability to influence across functions
Preferred
Use of AI tools in technology is a big PLUS