Multi-Cloud Platform Director: Strategy, SRE & FinOps

The Blue Venture Fund; Oak Brook (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

The Blue Venture Fund seeks a Director of Cloud Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and operational excellence for its multi-cloud platform (GCP and Azure). You will lead a distributed team of cloud engineers, SREs, and platform engineers, partnering with product, security, and data teams to deliver reliable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure.

This hands-on leadership role balances technical credibility with strategic influence, sets governance, drives IaC and CI/CD, optimizes

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-cloud architecture strategy across GCP and Azure.
• Own IaC standards and GitOps-enabled CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead SRE practices and reliability improvements with SLO/SLI tracking.
• Oversee cloud security baselines, CSPM, and compliance.
• Drive FinOps practices, cost visibility, and vendor negotiations.
• Champion AI-enabled tooling and responsible AI adoption.
• Develop leadership, hiring, and career ladders for the team.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Technical leadership

Distributed team leadership

SRE practices

FinOps

Tools

Kubernetes

GKE

AKS

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

The Blue Venture Fund seeks a Director of Cloud Engineering to own strategy, architecture, and operational excellence for its multi-cloud platform (GCP and Azure). You will lead a distributed team of cloud engineers, SREs, and platform engineers, partnering with product, security, and data teams to deliver reliable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure.

This hands-on leadership role balances technical credibility with strategic influence, sets governance, drives IaC and CI/CD, optimizes