Company Overview

Our client is a global SaaS company serving thousands of customers worldwide, with a platform that plays a critical role in helping organizations protect their people, assets, and data. The company has been growing its global footprint and is known for strong talent and real investment in people's growth.

Responsibilities

- Own the strategy, operations, security, governance, and financial stewardship of the cloud platform and shared engineering services

- Partner with Engineering, Product, UX, Security, IT, Compliance, Finance, and Go-to-Market teams to enable rapid product innovation while maintaining reliability, security, and cost efficiency

- Lead teams across cloud infrastructure, platform operations, observability, identity services, CI/CD, compliance, and cloud cost management

- Drive readiness for security and compliance frameworks, including FedRAMP

- Own cloud cost governance, forecasting, budgeting, and optimization (FinOps)

- Drive responsible adoption and governance of AI platforms and tooling across Engineering

- Lead evaluation, selection,



negotiation, and lifecycle management of cloud providers and technology vendors

- Build and lead high-performing cloud and platform engineering teams, improving developer experience and operational maturity

Requirements

- 10+ years in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or related disciplines

- 5+ years leading engineering managers and/or technical teams

- Deep expertise with public cloud platforms, preferably AWS

- Experience building and maintaining private cloud infrastructure

- Experience operating large-scale SaaS platforms in production

- Strong grasp of cloud security, compliance, governance, and risk management

- Experience with cloud financial management, budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization

- Track record leading cross-functional strategic initiatives

- Robust communication, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills

📌 Director of Engineering (Ontario)
🏢 Staffplex
📍 Ontario