Director, Cloud Governance

Role overview Build and lead a cloud governance function that sets practical, enforceable standards across a decentralized, multi-cloud engineering environment. The role balances security, compliance, cost visibility, and operational consistency with the need for autonomous teams to deliver at speed, while establishing an automation-led approach to monitoring and remediation.

Responsibilities - Create the governance team and define how it works with engineering teams, security, and FinOps, including clear policy ownership and enforcement. - Design and enforce AWS and GCP guardrails for provisioning, service use, data residency, identity, networking, and environment isolation. - Standardize cloud account and project structures, environment segmentation, naming, and resource organization. - Establish tagging rules that make resource ownership, environment, and cost center visible and support cost allocation. - Partner with security and engineering teams to roll out policies that teams can adopt, and work with FinOps on budgets, quotas, and cost controls. - Develop automated governance capabilities for continuous monitoring, risk detection, and remediation, with human review or approval matched to risk and compliance needs.

Requirements - 10 or more years in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering, including 3–5 or more years leading teams in complex environments. - Experience operating in decentralized or federated engineering organizations and implementing cloud governance at scale. - Deep hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP, including organization-level controls and multi-account or project design. - Strong knowledge of cloud networking and identity and access management. - Experience with infrastructure as code such as Terraform and policy-as-code or governance tools such as OPA, Sentinel, or AWS Config. - Experience managing or influencing cloud environments with spend above $50 million.

Benefits and work setup The role is remote for candidates in Canada or the United States. The source lists potential equity and bonuses, healthcare and retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, company-wide paid days, and unlimited paid time off.