Senior Cloud Platform Engineering & Operations Lead

Ss8; Milpitas (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SS8 seeks an experienced Manager, Cloud Engineering & Operations to lead architecture, deployment, and continuous improvement of cloud-native infrastructure. This hands-on leadership role combines engineering excellence with people management, owning 24x7 availability, incident response, and cost-efficient operations.

You will mentor engineers, drive DevOps/SRE practices, establish SLIs/SLOs, and coordinate with Security, Product, and Services teams to secure and optimize multi-cloud

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or related fields.
• 5+ years in engineering management or tech leadership.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for cloud engineering and operations end-to-end.
• Define ownership across teams; establish and monitor SLIs/SLOs and KPIs.

Skills

Cloud infra

Distributed systems

DevOps

SRE

Leadership

Architecture

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Job description

SS8 seeks an experienced Manager, Cloud Engineering & Operations to lead architecture, deployment, and continuous improvement of cloud-native infrastructure. This hands-on leadership role combines engineering excellence with people management, owning 24x7 availability, incident response, and cost-efficient operations.

You will mentor engineers, drive DevOps/SRE practices, establish SLIs/SLOs, and coordinate with Security, Product, and Services teams to secure and optimize multi-cloud