Senior Director, Cloud Operations & Platform Reliability

Nile Global Inc; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Nile Global Inc. is seeking a Senior Director of Cloud Operations to lead the reliability, security, and continuous improvement of Nile’s cloud infrastructure supporting our cloud-managed enterprise networking platform.

The role covers Google Cloud Platform and AWS, driving operational excellence, automation, and CI/CD practices in partnership with Engineering, Security, and Product teams. This onsite role is based in Santa Clara, CA.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in cloud infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or cloud operations.
• 10+ years leading technical teams or cloud/platform operations.
• Hands-on production experience on GCP and AWS.
• Strong networking, IAM, compute, storage, and monitoring knowledge.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation (Terraform).
• Experience with incident management, observability, and disaster recovery.
• Strong leadership, prioritization, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day cloud operations across GCP and AWS.
• Define standards for cloud architecture, availability, and resilience.
• Manage resources, capacity, performance, and cost optimization.
• Oversee provisioning, configuration, patching, backups, and DR readiness.
• Develop monitoring, logging, and observability for production services.
• Lead CI/CD evolution and release automation with engineering teams.
• Promote IaC and automation; ensure safe deployments.
• Partner with Security and Engineering on cloud governance.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

SRE/DevOps leadership

GCP and AWS

CI/CD

Terraform

Python/Bash scripting

Incident management

Observability

Cost optimization

Leadership and collaboration

Networking fundamentals

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Nile Global Inc. is seeking a Senior Director of Cloud Operations to lead the reliability, security, and continuous improvement of Nile’s cloud infrastructure supporting our cloud-managed enterprise networking platform.

The role covers Google Cloud Platform and AWS, driving operational excellence, automation, and CI/CD practices in partnership with Engineering, Security, and Product teams. This onsite role is based in Santa Clara, CA.