VP, Global Cloud Operations & FinOps

WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. seeks an experienced Vice President of Cloud Operations to lead our global cloud and infrastructure operations, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency for our SaaS platforms.

This executive will partner with Product, R&D, Finance, Security, and business leadership to scale platforms and optimize cloud economics. The role requires global-scale leadership across cloud and hybrid environments, a track record in FinOps and cost management, and proven

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in Cloud Operations, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Operations, including global teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead global Cloud Operations, infrastructure, platform operations, and related capabilities across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Ensure platforms are highly available, resilient, secure, scalable, and cost effective.
• Establish strong practices for service levels, observability, incident management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Drive automation and engineering-led operations to reduce manual work and operational risk.
• Serve as the senior Cloud Operations partner to Product and R&D leaders, aligning infrastructure strategy with product roadmaps and business priorities.
• Influence architecture and product decisions so scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency are designed into products.
• Define operational and economic metrics for cloud-based products and services.
• Own and mature the FinOps strategy and operating model, creating accountability for cloud consumption and product economics.
• Develop product-level infrastructure cost, COGS, and unit-cost visibility.
• Partner with Product, R&D, and Finance to set cost targets and execute optimization roadmaps.
• Improve gross margins through architecture, capacity, cloud commitments, storage, compute, networking, licensing, and process optimization without compromising customer experience.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Cloud infrastructure

FinOps

Executive collaboration

M&A integration

Budget management

Job description

WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. seeks an experienced Vice President of Cloud Operations to lead our global cloud and infrastructure operations, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency for our SaaS platforms.

This executive will partner with Product, R&D, Finance, Security, and business leadership to scale platforms and optimize cloud economics. The role requires global-scale leadership across cloud and hybrid environments, a track record in FinOps and cost management, and proven