Director, Public & Private Cloud

BlueSteps Connect; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueSteps Connect is seeking a Director of Public & Private Cloud Engineering to lead an enterprise cloud platform organization. You will guide a global team across cloud platform engineering, SRE, DevOps and infrastructure to unify private and public cloud environments.

The role focuses on reducing fragmentation, delivering platform initiatives, and building a strong engineering culture with open source tooling and IaC practices. Strong leadership and AWS experience are essential.

Qualifications

• :12+ years across cloud, infrastructure and platform engineering (or private cloud environments).
• +Experience leading managers and senior engineering leaders.
• +Strong knowledge of both private and public cloud, with deep AWS expertise; other public clouds a plus.
• +Infrastructure automation and IaC using Terraform, Ansible and Python.
• +Strong networking, security, distributed systems and infrastructure operations knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead global cloud engineering across platform engineering, SRE, DevOps and infrastructure.
• Connect siloed infrastructure and platform functions into a unified cloud platform.
• Partner with senior technical leadership and architecture teams.
• Oversee Kubernetes, compute, storage, networking, GPU infrastructure and cloud services.
• Improve reliability, scalability, automation and operational efficiency across distributed teams.

Skills

Cloud platform leadership

SRE leadership

DevOps practices

Infrastructure management

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

Python scripting

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Networking

Security

Distributed systems

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

the client is seeking a Director of Public & Private Cloud Engineering to lead an enterprise cloud platform organization focused on connecting private and public cloud into a unified environment. This is a strategic leadership role with a strong delivery emphasis, guiding a global engineering team across cloud platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), DevOps, and infrastructure functions.

Reporting into senior technology leadership, the director will oversee an organization of approximately 50–100 engineers and leaders across the US and India. The role will drive the evolution of a connected cloud platform by aligning engineering functions, addressing fragmentation across teams and platforms, and delivering platform initiatives across both private and public cloud environments.

Key responsibilities include leading global cloud engineering across platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, and infrastructure; connecting siloed infrastructure and platform functions into a unified cloud platform; partnering with senior technical leadership and architecture teams; and overseeing Kubernetes, compute, storage, networking, GPU infrastructure, and cloud services. The director will improve reliability, scalability, automation, and operational efficiency; build trust and autonomy while strengthening an engineering culture across distributed teams; and drive modern infrastructure practices using open source tooling and infrastructure-as-code approaches. Required qualifications include 12+ years across cloud, infrastructure, and platform engineering (or private cloud environments), experience leading managers and senior engineering leaders, strong knowledge of both private and public cloud, deep expertise across AWS with additional public cloud exposure preferred, infrastructure automation and IaC experience using common tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Python (or similar), and strong understanding of networking, security, distributed systems, and infrastructure operations. Preferred experience includes Kubernetes or OpenShift platform leadership, exposure to large enterprise engineering-led organizations, experience with AI/ML, GPU, or high-performance compute environments, and strong open source tooling experience.