Senior Director of Infrastructure & Cloud Ops, Rula

• 15+ years in software engineering, 10+ in engineering leadership roles, at least 3 years managing managers
• At least 5 years of leadership experience working in Infrastructure organization managing hosted environments
• Experience managing infrastructure integrations that are in the critical path of operations (e.g. access management)
• Experience building or leading infrastructure teams in a SaaS environment, ideally in AWS
• Prior experience with AWS account management and/or cost management strategies (reserved instances, spot instances, etc.)

Desirable

• This role will establish a dedicated Infrastructure & Cloud Operations organization within engineering
• This leader will initially take on existing SR/DevOps and Infrastructure teams and extend to include cloud operations functions and IAM/Identity Management
• This role is an opportunity to join a small and growing company to lead a team on the journey of maturing our application and operating posture
• You will bring your industry expertise from leading Infrastructure teams in more mature organizations, bringing that expertise to inspire and grow infrastructure into a mature organization that delivers value for internal engineering stakeholders and therefore for Rula
• This is a senior leadership role managing managers and not a hands-on technical role
• Your technical expertise will be valuable in building out teams and selecting appropriate skill sets
• Success will be measured by the ability to lead through others, select the appropriate technical leaders for areas of expertise, teach leadership and stakeholder management principles, setting, measure, and achieve technical and project goals
• You will provide overall oversight for the projects within your domain, making appropriate risk-based tradeoff decisions, and collaborating with other engineering leaders to drive the best overall outcomes for Rula
• This is still a small organization, and as a result a breadth of leadership ability is required to be successful
• You will have a leadership voice across engineering and into parts of the business in areas related to providing a stable infrastructure and are expected to bring best practices in the areas of people, process, or technology to contribute to the broader success of the organization
• You will use your excellent communication skills to effectively manage out and up in the organization on Infrastructure and execution-related topics that drive effective decision-making and keep stakeholders and partners informed