Cloud Platform Director - AI, Security & FinOps

Magnet Forensics

United States

Hybrid

USD 143,000 - 179,000

Full time

13 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Generous time off policies
Competitive compensation
Volunteer opportunities
Reward and recognition programs
Employee committees & resource groups
Healthcare and retirement benefits

Job summary

Magnet Forensics is seeking a Director of Cloud Engineering to lead strategy, operations, security, governance, and FinOps for our cloud platform and shared services. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, IT, and Finance to enable rapid product innovation while meeting reliability and cost targets.

This leadership role emphasizes cloud strategy, AI enablement, vendor management, and a strong focus on security and regulatory readiness, with a global SaaS mindset and hybrid

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in software engineering, cloud infra, or platform eng.
  • 5+ years leading engineering managers or 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.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute cloud platform strategy supporting SaaS products and business goals.
  • Establish and drive operational excellence: reliability, observability, incident mgmt, DR, governance.
  • Partner with engineering leaders to deliver highly available cloud services.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve platform consistency and engineering effectiveness.
  • Champion platform architecture standards and governance processes.

Skills

Cloud platforms AWS
Platform engineering
FinOps / cloud cost
Security & compliance
Vendor management
Leadership & mentoring
SaaS architectures
Observability & reliability
Cross-functional collaboration
Executive communication

Tools

AWS
Private cloud

Job description

Magnet Forensics is seeking a Director of Cloud Engineering to lead strategy, operations, security, governance, and FinOps for our cloud platform and shared services. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, IT, and Finance to enable rapid product innovation while meeting reliability and cost targets.

This leadership role emphasizes cloud strategy, AI enablement, vendor management, and a strong focus on security and regulatory readiness, with a global SaaS mindset and hybrid

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