Key skills
AWSCloudTerraformCloudFormationIAMLeadershipCommunicationRemote WorkCloud Security
About this role
Role Overview
- Lead the Cloud Operations team, setting priorities, processes, and metrics.
- Ensure stable and secure operation of the cloud infrastructure.
- Define and drive risk mitigation plans (WAR), with a preventive focus.
- Establish and evolve FinOps practices: cost management, budgets, and forecasting; identification of waste and optimization opportunities.
- Implement and govern Identity and Access Management (IAM) practices: roles, policies, SCPs; least privilege principle; access and credential management.
- Lead cloud security and hardening initiatives: AWS Config, Security Hub, GuardDuty (or similar); cloud security posture management (CSPM); vulnerability management.
- Define and implement compliance and governance controls: policies, audits and evidence; adherence to standards and best practices.
- Define and maintain architecture and security guardrails: mandatory standards (security baseline); automated controls (policy as code).
- Govern the lifecycle of images and workloads: use of approved base images; vulnerability scanning; blocks for critical CVEs.
- Collaborate with Architecture and Engineering to ensure adoption of defined standards.
- Promote automation and continuous improvement (Infrastructure as Code, automated security, continuous controls).
Requirements
- Solid experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred).
- Experience in technical leadership or managing infrastructure, cloud, or security teams.
- Strong knowledge of cloud security, including: IAM; hardening; vulnerability management; cloud security posture management (CSPM).
- Experience with multi-account governance (AWS Organizations, SCPs).
- Experience with FinOps and cost optimization.
- Knowledge of automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
- Experience with audits, controls, and compliance practices.
- Good communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- Terraform
Benefits
- 100% remote work.
- A culture of trust focused on results, offering significant challenge and learning opportunities.
- Autonomy and ownership in a collaborative and empathetic environment.
- A feedback culture with 1:1s and humane leadership without micromanagement.
- Comprehensive benefits such as meal/food vouchers, childcare assistance, home office support, health, education and culture benefits, Gympass, birthday day-off, discounts on therapy and English courses, among other partnerships.