Senior Director - Cloud Platform Engineering

Mx Technologies•Lehi, UT

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a US-based Senior Director that would be a strategic, operational, execution, and escalation owner for all the site, infrastructure and cloud platform services. This role is personally accountable for the production reliability and stability, including owning US time-zone incidents, Sev 0/1 events, leading cutovers, and directly representing site, infrastructure and platforms to executive leadership during high-impact events. The expectation is that this leader stands front of the line during critical incidents and events like migration and stabilization, makes real-time decisions, and clearly articulates risk, impact, and trade-offs to executives under pressure. This front-line ownership is intentional but transitional. A core measure of success for this role is building the systems, operating model, delegation structure, and a strong leadership bench such that sustained, high-quality operations do not depend on the continuous personal presence of a single leader. The leader is expected to design for leverage: establishing clear ownership, developing managers/leaders, and embedding practices that scale reliability beyond individual heroics. In parallel, they are expected to lead the full lifecycle of our infrastructure transformation, from data center exit and AWS migration through steady-state cloud operations and platform maturity. Success is measured not just by completing the migration, but by leaving behind a durable operating model with clear delegation, on-call ownership, and predictable executive engagement. The ideal candidate will have personally led large-scale data center exits and Cloud migrations, not just advised or governed them.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in infrastructure, Cloud, SRE, or platform engineering.
7+ years leading large engineering organizations (managers of managers or equivalent).
Direct, hands-on leadership of at least one full data center exit and AWS migration, including decommissioning of on-premise infrastructure.
Deep technical expertise in AWS, including VPC networking, EC2, EKS/Kubernetes, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM, and observability tooling.
Strong experience operating highly available, distributed systems using SRE principles.
Proven ability to lead complex, high-risk infrastructure transformations in production environments.
Expertise in FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices.
Demonstrated ability to drive standards and adoptions across distributed engineering teams without relying on reporting lines.
Skillful operating as a front-line executive leader during critical situations, including migrations, upgrades, DR, incidents, and major production events.

Responsibilities

Lead Data Center Exit & AWS Migration
Establish and own the post-migration operating model for cloud infrastructure and platforms, explicitly tied to outcomes:
Hold teams accountable for post-migration reliability metrics, including:
Lead physical and logical data center decommissioning only after post-migration SLOs are consistently met and incident KPIs have stabilized.
Build and Evolve the Cloud Platform
Incident Management, SRE & Operational Resilience Leadership
Program, Stakeholder, and Executive Leadership
People and Organization Leadership