Cloud Platform Director - AI, Security & FinOps

Magnet Forensics; United States; Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 179,000; Full time

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