Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vertafore provides digital systems, AI, and data-driven infrastructure for insurance agencies, MGAs, and carriers, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado and offices globally. The Director of Cloud Operations leads hybrid AWS and colocation infrastructure operations, driving reliability, scalability, automation, security, governance, and modernization while managing a global team of senior infrastructure engineers and engineering managers.
Responsibilities
- Oversee large segments of hybrid infrastructure including AWS platforms and colocation-based compute, storage, and networking environments
- Ensure availability, scalability, and operational resilience of foundational services such as networking, storage, DNS, identity, and virtualization platforms
- Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives supporting cloud adoption and hybrid architecture
- Oversee AWS organizational structure, account governance, and infrastructure policy enforcement
- Partner with FinOps and global organizational teams to drive cost visibility, optimization, and financial governance
- Ensure compliance with infrastructure security and operational standards
- Lead the adoption of Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks such as Terraform and CloudFormation
- Drive improvements in infrastructure provisioning, lifecycle management, and operational tooling
- Promote engineering best practices for infrastructure development, automation and platform reliability
- Partner with security teams to enforce IAM standards, privileged access controls, and infrastructure hardening
- Ensure consistent patching, vulnerability management, and access governance across cloud and datacenter environments
- Collaborate with SRE to ensure infrastructure platforms support reliability goals and service level objectives
- Work with Product Engineering leaders to align infrastructure capabilities with product growth and architectural evolution
- Manage and mentor engineering managers and/or senior engineers
- Drive hiring, performance management, and career development
- Foster a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
Skills
- 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering
- 5+ years in engineering leadership roles managing infrastructure teams
- Deep experience with AWS services, VMWare and hybrid cloud architectures
- Strong knowledge of networking, virtualization, storage, and distributed systems
- Experience implementing infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
- Demonstrated experience operating infrastructure platforms supporting large-scale SaaS environments
- Strong ability to utilize AI tools as a force multiplier, and advocate for the use of these tools by teams
- Experience operating hybrid cloud platforms across AWS and colocation datacenters
- Background supporting regulated industries
- Experience implementing cloud governance and FinOps practices
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