Remote Cloud Governance Director: Guardrails & Autonomy

Scopely; La Cañada Flintridge (CA); Remote; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will build and lead the Cloud Governance function, define the operating model with game teams, security, and FinOps, and enforce controls for cloud policies, provisioning, regions, IAM, and network architecture 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 (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.

Responsibilities

• 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 SCPs and IAM constraints.
• Establish guardrails around resource provisioning, region restrictions, and environment isolation.
• Own the mandate to enforce policies and restrict non-compliant usage.
• Define and implement standards for account structure, environment segmentation, and naming conventions.
• Define and enforce tagging standards for cost allocation and governance.
• Collaborate with FinOps and Security to align governance with financial and security requirements.
• Drive AI-native governance and agentic capabilities across cloud platforms.

Skills

Cloud governance

Leadership

Policy-as-code

Terraform

AWS/GCP

SRE

Tools

Terraform

OPA

Sentinel

AWS Config

Job description

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

You will build and lead the Cloud Governance function, define the operating model with game teams, security, and FinOps, and enforce controls for cloud policies, provisioning, regions, IAM, and network architecture at scale.