Director, Private & Public Cloud

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Dallas / $210000 - $250000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$210000 - $250000

Location

LOCATION

Dallas

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Director of Cloud & Private Cloud Engineering

Overview

This role leads a large‑scale Cloud and Private Cloud Engineering organisation within a highly technical, engineering‑driven enterprise environment. The Director owns both private and public cloud platforms and is responsible for unifying previously siloed infrastructure efforts into a single, coherent cloud platform that supports enterprise and product workloads at scale.

The organisation is building much of its cloud platform from the ground up using modern, open‑source tooling. While strong technical capabilities already exist across engineering teams, this role exists to provide the strategic ownership, connective leadership, and execution focus needed to bring the platform together and drive real delivery.

The Organisation & Scope

  • Lead an organisation of 50-100 engineers, including senior managers and directors
  • Teams span SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, and cloud infrastructure
  • Geographic footprint primarily across the US and India
  • Responsible for both private cloud and public cloud environments

Role Responsibilities

  • Own the end‑to‑end strategy and execution for private and public cloud platforms
  • Unify fragmented cloud efforts into a single, integrated platform
  • Drive execution - moving strategy and architecture into delivered, production‑ready systems
  • Provide directional leadership to architects and senior engineers without acting as the primary architect
  • Build trust, autonomy, and accountability across a large, established engineering organisation
  • Oversee compute, GPU, storage, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure
  • Maintain visibility into cost, reliability, scalability, and performance
  • Partner across engineering, security, and enterprise IT stakeholders to enable adoption

Why This Role Exists

The organisation has strong technical depth, but cloud capabilities are currently developed in pockets. Public cloud usage is progressing well, Kubernetes is underway but not yet standardized, and private cloud and public cloud remain disconnected.

This role exists to join the dots, establish unified ownership, and ensure that cloud strategy is not just designed-but delivered. The team needs a leader who can push architectural thinking in the right direction, remove blockers, and execute at scale.

Required Experience & Profile

  • 12+ years in cloud, private cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering
  • 5+ years leading managers and senior technical leaders
  • Demonstrated experience across both private and public cloud (core requirement)
  • Deep private cloud expertise plus strong public cloud experience across at least two of:
    • AWS
    • GCP
    • Azure
  • Strong Infrastructure‑as‑Code background (Terraform, Ansible, Python, or equivalent)
  • Proven experience building self‑service internal platforms or IaaS products
  • Strong foundation in networking, security, identity, and distributed systems
  • Track record of earning trust and leading large, senior engineering organisations
  • Known as an executor - able to drive strategy into delivery

Nice to Have

  • Leadership experience with OpenShift or upstream Kubernetes
  • Experience delivering portal‑ or GUI‑based private cloud platforms
  • Background in DevOps, SRE, or Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
  • Exposure to AI/ML or GPU‑driven workloads

Ideal Background

This role is best suited to candidates from stable, established technology organisations, particularly environments where private cloud and public cloud have coexisted over time. Familiarity with enterprises that use "private cloud" or "hybrid/cloud platform" terminology and architectures will be beneficial. Strong open‑source fluency and comfort operating in large, complex engineering environments are key to success.


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Mitchell Vaughn

Recruitment Consultant

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