Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Xactus is a verification innovator for the mortgage industry that provides digitally integrated verification solutions. The Director of Cloud Engineering will lead and manage cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP, overseeing a cross-functional team while ensuring secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud operations. The role also owns operational workflows, governance, and SLA performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of cloud engineers and systems administrators for multiple products
- Establish and enforce best practices across cloud environments
- Oversee team development and training to ensure proficiency in cloud technologies
- Manage the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, and GCP). Collaborate with CISO, CTO, and engineering leaders to align cloud strategy with security, performance, and cost-efficiency goals. Drive the adoption of Terraform, Ansible, or similar IaC tools for automation and consistency
- Provide operational leadership across the cloud engineering function, including managing day-to-day workstreams and workflows, prioritizing team capacity, and driving execution against commitments
- Own SLA performance for cloud operations, ensuring uptime, incident response, and change management targets are consistently met and reported to leadership
- Implement cloud governance practices in cooperation with Information Security team to manage risks and vulnerabilities
- Work closely with information security teams to remediate vulnerabilities, adjust configurations, and ensure the cloud infrastructure meets evolving security requirements
- Monitor and optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, security, and cost efficiency
- Provide regular reports on cloud performance and budgetary impacts to leadership
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure roles with at least 5 years in cloud engineering or architecture
- Proven leadership experience managing remote, distributed teams, including ownership of team workstreams, workflows, and SLA-driven performance
- Extensive experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, and related cloud platforms
- Expertise in infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Ansible
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and multi-cloud strategies
- Expertise in automation, scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash), and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or GitHub Actions)
- Experience administering and scaling GitHub Enterprise, including repository governance, access controls, and workflow automation
- Demonstrated operational leadership skills, able to manage competing workstreams, coordinate cross-team workflows, and hold the team accountable to SLA commitments
- Excellent leadership, communication, and project management skills
- May require flexibility in hours
- Lifting/carrying up to 10 lbs
- Manual dexterity for computer work
- Speaking, hearing and vision are required to perform essential functions
- If applying for a position at Xactus, candidates must be a resident of the United States, and should be authorized and eligible for employment in the United States
- Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Google Professional Cloud Architect are highly desirable
Benefits
- Friendly, supportive environment
- Primarily remote work environment
- Medical, vision and dental insurances
- Bonus programs
- Fitness reimbursement
- Other healthy lifestyle programs through our benefits carrier
- 401k plan with a company match
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Accident and critical illness insurance
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account
- Employee assistance program
- Legal services
- Employee discounts
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