Head of Cloud

MotorK; Milano; Hybrid; EUR 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal vouchers

26 days holiday

30 days work from anywhere

Hybrid work setup

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

MotorK is seeking a Head of Cloud to lead the evolution of its AI-driven cloud platform and infrastructure. You will steer live production cloud environments, guide teams in CI/CD, SRE, and best practices across products and development teams.

We value at least 8 years in production cloud, strong governance, cost control, and a relentless AI-first mindset. The role offers flexible hybrid work and growth opportunities within a fast-moving European SaaS leader.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of live production cloud infrastructure experience.
• Experience delivering SRE frameworks with observability, SLO/SLA.
• AI-first mindset across cloud platform engineering.
• Strong knowledge of cloud services, architecture, governance and cost control.
• Infrastructure as code at scale; AWS governance, security, networking.
• Proven leadership and ability to communicate with senior management.
• Proven ability to lead CI/CD platform evolution and DevOps adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the cloud engineering team and drive platform strategy.
• Advance AI-driven cloud platform engineering practices.
• Oversee CI/CD, SRE adoption, observability, and cost governance.
• Collaborate with product and development teams to implement best practices.
• Ensure SLA/SLO compliance for customers and disaster recovery readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

SRE practices

AI adoption

CI/CD practices

DevOps

Senior management comms

Cost control

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Governance tools

Job description

MotorK sits at the intersection of deep vertical complexity - automotive SaaS, 10,000+ dealerships, enterprise-grade requirements - and a company that has gone all-in on AI as its primary engine of scale. We believe vertical SaaS captures the most value from AI, and none of that value is reachable unless the data underneath it is modeled, governed and engineered right.

The Head of Cloud will lead the evolution of MotorK’s cloud infrastructure environment to a state of the art AI driven platform engineering team.

We’re seeking candidates who bring:

• Leadership Excellence: A proven history of guiding teams and projects to success.
• Technical Proficiency: A strong understanding of modern technologies and the ability to adapt quickly.
• AWS & Kubernetes Mastery: Hands‑on experience with these platforms, enabling you to build and manage complex systems.
• All In on AI: We are extreme on AI adoption, we do everything with AI, cloud infra is no difference

This role offers the opportunity and autonomy to make decisions in the cloud and infrastructure domain for the leading SaaS company in the European automotive industry and to guide your colleagues in software development to adopt best practices in CI/CD, SRE, and infra maintenance.

• Extensive experience (minimum of 8 years) working in a live production cloud infrastructure is essential. Experience in environments serving thousands of clients with SLA commitments is highly advantageous.
• Proven experience in production‑critical environments with SRE framework adoptions is necessary. You will be expected to develop/build the observability platform and lead the implementation of a mature SRE framework across company products and development teams, ensuring SLO/SLA for our customers.
• Obsessed on AI. Everything should be AI First / AI driven / Done with AI
• Good Knowledge of Cloud Services, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Governance & Cost Control experience is essential, as MotorK is a cloud‑native environment.
• Solid understanding of:
• Infrastructure as a code at scale.
• AWS Governance Experience, with a focus on Security & Networking.
• FinOps and Cost Controlling.
• Disaster recovery and business continuity in cloud environments.
• Solid experience in CI/CD tools and frameworks and DevOps adoption as you are required to evolve the CI/CD platform and help other teams in adopting best practices in continuous deployment.
• This is a leadership position. You will lead your team and champion the use of best practices throughout MotorK’s Tech organization. Prior experience in team management and the ability to communicate effectively in senior management settings are essential for this role.
• Salary from €85,000/year with the final offer adjusted based on experience and skill set.
• Meal vouchers
• 26 days holiday + national holidays
• 30 days a year to work from wherever you want
• A flexible hybrid setup
• Genuine room to grow - nationally and internationally. We move fast, and so do careers here.

MotorK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any kind. Our company is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at MotorK are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, age, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.