Director, Cloud Governance

Game Devs of Color; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonuses

Healthcare benefits

Retirement benefits

Pet insurance

Paid holidays

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Scopely seeks a Director of Cloud Governance to lead a new governance function across AWS and GCP, implementing scalable controls and policies. You will partner with FinOps, Security, and game teams to roll out standards and achieve compliant, efficient cloud usage.

In this senior role, you will establish governance from the ground up, drive adoption across decentralized teams, and shape an AI-native governance strategy enabling autonomous monitoring and remediation at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE.
• 3-5+ years leading teams in complex, multi-team environments.
• Experience operating in decentralized or federated engineering organizations.
• Proven track record implementing cloud governance and enforcement at scale.
• Experience managing or influencing environments with $50M+ cloud spend.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience with policy-as-code and governance tooling (OPA, Sentinel, AWS Config).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity, and multi-account design.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a Cloud Governance team and operating model.
• Define enforcement mechanisms for cloud policies across AWS/GCP.
• Design controls, region restrictions, identity/access management, and environment isolation.
• Partner with FinOps, Security, and game teams to roll out policies.
• Define standards for account structure, environment segmentation, and naming.
• Drive AI-native governance and autonomous monitoring/remediation.

Skills

Cloud governance

Multi-cloud

Team leadership

Policy-as-code

AWS & GCP

SRE / platform engineering

Terraform

Security & compliance

Cost optimization

Tools

AWS

GCP

Terraform

OPA/Sentinel

AWS Config

Job description

CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range: $175,000 - $210,000 USD

Scopely is seeking a Director, Cloud Governance to lead efforts in establishing and enforcing standards, policies, and guardrails across Scopely’s multi-cloud environment. This is a remote opportunity for individuals in Canada or the United States.

As a Director, Cloud Governance you will play a pivotal leadership role in defining and executing the Scopely’s Cloud Governance strategy. This team will define, implement, and enforce the policies and controls that govern how cloud infrastructure is used across a decentralized organization of game, platform, and product teams.

This role is critical to bringing structure, consistency, and guardrails to Scopely’s cloud footprint, and will be key in modernizing our overall governance posture. As a central leader, you will drive alignment across highly autonomous teams and translate governance into practical, adoptable solutions while balancing control and development velocity.

This is a foundational leadership role; you will establish governance from the ground up, introduce scalable and enforceable controls, and drive adoption and buy-in across various teams, stakeholders, and senior leaders.

What You Will Do

Build & Lead Cloud Governance

• Build and lead a Cloud Governance team
• Define the operating model for how governance partners with game teams, security, and FinOps
• Establish clear ownership and enforcement mechanisms for cloud policies
• Design and implement enforceable controls across AWS and GCP, including:
  • AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies (SCPs)
  • GCP Organization Policies and IAM constraints
• Resource provisioning and service usage
• Region restrictions and data residency
• Identity and access management
• Network architecture and environment isolation
• Own the mandate to enforce policies, including the ability to restrict or block non-compliant usage
  
• Define and implement standards for:
  • AWS account structure and GCP project/folder hierarchy
  • Environment segmentation (prod, staging, dev)
  • Naming conventions and resource organization
• Bring consistency across a fragmented, multi-team cloud footprint
• Define and enforce tagging standards in partnership with FinOps
• Ensure all resources are attributable (ownership, environment, cost center)
• Enable downstream cost allocation and operational visibility
  

Stakeholder Partnership

• Collaborate with FinOps on cost allocation and optimization levers (budgets, quotas, usage controls)
• Partner with Security to align governance with security and compliance requirements
• Work directly with game teams to safely roll out and drive adoption of policies and standards

AI-Forward Governance & Automation

• Define and execute an AI-native vision for cloud governance, transforming the function into an intelligent, policy-driven operating model powered by autonomous and agentic systems
• Establish the organization’s strategy for governance autonomy, defining where fully autonomous operations, human-on-the-loop oversight, and human-in-the-loop approvals are appropriate based on risk, business impact, and compliance requirements
• Architect and drive agentic governance capabilities that continuously monitor cloud environments, detect risk, and autonomously remediate anomalies at scale
• Partner across engineering, data, and security, and platform teams to embed responsible AI governance into cloud platforms, establishing guardrails for AI adoption, autonomous decision‑making, and auditability

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE
• 3-5+ years leading teams in complex, multi-team environments
• Experience operating in decentralized or federated engineering organizations
• Proven track record implementing cloud governance and enforcement at scale
• Experience managing or influencing environments with $50M+ cloud spend
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Experience with policy-as-code and governance tooling (e.g., OPA, Sentinel, AWS Config)
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity, and multi-account design

For candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for equity, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid Scopely free days, and unlimited paid time off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range

$175,000 - $210,000 USD

About Scopely

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble franchise, “Yahtzee With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like "MONOPOLY GO!" from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.

Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.

Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/ .

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Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble franchise, “Yahtzee With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.