Head of Cloud Infrastructure, YipitData
$200-250k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
Alternative data driven market & investment research firm
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Alternative data driven market & investment research firm
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-250k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To usher in the new era of market research.
Role
Who you are
- You have 6+ years of relevant infrastructure, SRE, platform engineering, or developer productivity experience, applied flexibly based on demonstrated scope and impact, with hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- You have led approximately 3–10 infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineers and are excited to remain a player-coach within a collaborative, high-leverage team
- You have both built or materially transformed a platform function and operated mature, business-critical production infrastructure
- You have helped a data-intensive SaaS, analytics, or similarly complex technology organization scale through rapid growth
- You have owned formal reliability practices, including SLOs, incident management, production operations, and disaster recovery, and can design a sustainable on-call model
- You have improved developer velocity or platform experience through self-service capabilities, standardized workflows, internal platform adoption, or measurable reductions in engineering friction
- You can translate technical strategy into an actionable roadmap, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and influence the Chief Architect, engineering leaders, and partner teams through clear communication and credible technical judgment
- You have delivered measurable cloud-cost or infrastructure-efficiency improvements and understand how to optimize technology costs beyond downsizing through smart architecture across services
- You hold a bachelor’s degree or have equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Head of Cloud Infrastructure (Director Level) to lead the modernization and scaling of the shared infrastructure that powers YipitData’s data-intensive products and engineering organization
- Reporting to the Chief Architect, you will own cloud platform, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, and developer experience across an AWS environment built with Kubernetes and Terraform
- This is a player-coach leadership role for someone who can set strategy, make sound architectural decisions, remain technically credible, and lead a high-leverage global team
- You will unify existing modernization initiatives into a coherent roadmap, establish formal reliability and disaster-recovery practices, and make it faster and easier for engineers to build, deploy, and operate dependable software
- As the platform matures, you will also improve cloud efficiency and deliver measurable savings without compromising reliability or developer velocity
- You will own shared infrastructure, while our Data Platform, Data Engineering, and application teams will continue to own their applications and data products
- Security and Enterprise IT are outside this role’s ownership, and you will partner closely with those functions as well as the Chief Architect and engineering leaders
- Set and execute a prioritized cloud-infrastructure modernization roadmap, bringing existing initiatives together into a clear strategy for AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and the broader platform ecosystem
- Lead a small, high-leverage global team spanning cloud platform, SRE, and DevOps, combining clear direction and coaching with hands-on technical judgment
- Improve developer velocity and platform experience by delivering reliable paved roads, reusable infrastructure capabilities, self-service workflows, and faster feedback loops
- Establish and mature formal reliability practices, including service ownership, SLIs and SLOs, incident management, error-budget practices, observability, and accountable post-incident follow-through
- Own disaster-recovery strategy and readiness, including recovery objectives, testing, automation, and the closure of identified resilience gaps
- Design a sustainable 24/7 operational model, including on-call responsibilities, escalation paths, incident leadership, and healthy collaboration across a global team
- Partner with the Chief Architect and engineering leaders to define platform priorities, clarify ownership boundaries, and help application and data teams operate their workloads effectively on shared infrastructure
- Define baselines and measure progress across delivery performance, developer experience, platform adoption, reliability, operational health, and cloud unit economics
- Improve cloud efficiency through better cost attribution, capacity planning, Kubernetes resource utilization, automation, and measurable savings—without sacrificing reliability or delivery speed
Our take
Annual expenditure on data sets amongst US asset managers has grown to over $1 Billion since the turn of the decade, and is only increasing. Alternative data providers like YipitData are providing answers to such investors.
By focusing on disruptive, digital-first sectors, the company provides maximum value to their clients. This is because, in recent times, many of the highest-growth opportunities have been the hardest to price. By supporting this pricing, YipitData is a stand-out.
Thus, the company has emerged as a leading provider of highly accurate and detailed research and analytics in the rapidly evolving landscape of disruptive and digitally enabled sectors. With an impressive client base in the hundreds and significant funding behind it, YipitData is poised to expand innovation and venture into new markets.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2021
$475m
SERIES E
May 2019
$85m
LATE VC
Total funding: $577m
Company benefits
- Flexible work hours
- Flexible vacation
- Generous 401K match
- Parental leave
- Team events
- Wellness budget
- Learning reimbursement
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Vinicius Vacanti
(Founder & CEO)Prior to YipitData, they were an Associate at Quadrangle Group and an Analyst at The Blackstone Group.
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