Director of Cloud Engineering

openloophealth; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

FSA/HSA

Flexible PTO

401(k) with company match

Life and pet insurance

Job summary

Openloop Health is seeking a senior cloud platform leader to define our cloud roadmap, operate production workloads in AWS, and build a high-performance cloud and infrastructure organization. You will drive automation, security, and cost efficiency while partnering with engineering, security, compliance, and finance teams.

You will hire and mentor engineers and managers, set platform standards, and ensure reliability targets and incident response readiness.

Qualifications

• ,10+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering including 4+ years leading teams.
• Production AWS experience with reliable, scalable workloads.
• In-depth infrastructure as code, containers/orchestration, and CI/CD knowledge.
• Proven track record of reliability, security, and cloud cost efficiency at scale.
• Experience in regulated environments (healthcare/finance) and strong communication to executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define the cloud platform roadmap including account structure, networking, compute, data and DR.
• Hire, develop and lead cloud and infrastructure engineers and managers.
• Expand infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and self-service for product teams.
• Partner with security and compliance for access controls, encryption, logging, and vulnerability management.
• Establish reliability targets, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and backup practices.
• Improve cloud cost visibility and efficiency through forecasting and tagging.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Executive influence

Strategy orientation

Tools

Terraform

Containers & Orchestration

CI/CD

Job description

Role overview

Set the direction for a cloud platform that supports multiple products and services, and build the organisation and practices needed to operate it reliably, securely, and cost-effectively. The role combines hands-on architectural judgement with leadership of cloud and infrastructure teams. You will work closely with engineering, product, security, compliance, finance, and site reliability colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Define the cloud platform roadmap, including account structure, networking, compute, data, and disaster recovery, and set platform standards.
• Hire, develop, and lead cloud and infrastructure engineers and managers, building technical leadership and operational ownership.
• Expand infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and self-service capabilities for product teams.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to implement access controls, encryption, logging, audit readiness, and vulnerability management.
• Establish reliability targets, monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, resilience, and backup and recovery practices.
• Improve cloud cost visibility and efficiency through forecasting, tagging, and clear accountability.

Requirements

• At least 10 years in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering, including 4 or more years leading engineering teams.
• Deep practical experience designing and operating production workloads in AWS.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform or equivalent infrastructure as code, containers and orchestration, and CI/CD.
• Track record of improving reliability, security, and cloud cost efficiency at scale.
• Experience operating in a regulated environment such as healthcare, finance, or another compliance-focused sector.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to influence both executives and engineers.

Nice to have

• Healthcare or health technology experience involving sensitive health data; cloud migrations, landing-zone redesigns, or post-acquisition platform consolidation; AI/ML infrastructure experience; or an advanced AWS certification.

Benefits and work setup

The role is remote within the United States, with collaboration centred on Central time. Listed benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending or health savings accounts, flexible paid time off, a 401(k) with company match, and life and pet insurance.