Director Cloud Engineering (Hybrid)

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Director of Cloud Engineering for our Technology Hub in Madrid. This is a unique opportunity to become part of the exceptional team that helps shape the culture practices and technical direction. Working in a hybrid model you will enjoy significant freedom to innovate and influence the future of one of the worlds largest commercial real estate companies. With the leadership of the Global Technology Hub coming from a background of technology startups you will benefit from a fast-paced learning environment high visibility of your contributions and opportunities to shape processes culture and technology strategies. At the same time you take advantage of the stability resources and reach of a successful global company.

The Director of Cloud Engineering will provide leadership and technical expertise to establish and scale a world-class Cloud Engineering function at Colliers with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role will be responsible for defining the cloud strategy building robust engineering practices and ensuring secure scalable and cost-efficient cloud operations across the enterprise.

Working closely with the Director of Software Engineering DevOps leadership and other technology stakeholders this position will drive innovation automation and operational excellence in cloud adoption and management. The successful candidate will combine deep technical knowledge with strong leadership skills to influence architecture decisions optimize cloud performance and enable business agility.

Strategy & Governance

• Design & continually improve organizational design for the cloud engineering function (team structure operating model)
• Establish and govern the cloud strategy standards and architectural guardrails for GCP.
• Work with Enterprise Architecture to enforce and adopt cloud reference architectures patterns and design.
• Establish policy-as-code frameworks defining multi-cloud consistency principles and articulating a clear cloud security vision.
• Define and govern cloud tooling strategy in alignment and partnership with DevOps.
• Drive cloud-first automation-first approaches across engineering and infrastructure
• Oversee compliance alignment platform risk management and audit readiness
• Maintain visibility of emerging technologies and assess applicability
• Define measurable KPIs/OKRs for reliability cost optimization and deployment speed

Leadership and Capability Development

• Lead a global team of cloud managers engineers and other specialists
• Define skill development paths hiring needs and capability roadmaps
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence documentation and automation
• Coaching engineers and technical leaders on modern cloud and platform patterns; fostering a culture of continuous improvement and proactive risk mitigation; ingraining agile practices and rituals.
• Promote cross-team collaboration and shared ownership
• Promote diversity inclusion and succession planning within the team.

Financial and Vendor Management

• Own cloud financial management cost optimization strategies.
• Partner with Finance and product owners for budget planning and cost transparency.
• Manage relationships with cloud providers and manage enterprise agreements.

Delivery Quality and Operation Excellence

• Oversee the design implementation and optimization of cloud infrastructure across GCP and Azure.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to guide and finalize cloud architectural decisions.
• Align with Information Security to uphold and evolve security policies configurations and compliance.
• Own and commit to defining and achieving Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs).
• Develop and maintain operational playbooks runbooks and comprehensive service readiness programs.
• Oversee IaC standards CI/CD integrations and cloud infrastructure testing frameworks.
• Drive integrated observability of cloud infrastructure aligning with engineering data and InfoSec.
• Implement SRE principles to proactively enhance system reliability performance and operational efficiency.
• Architect and maintain resilient scalable and cost-efficient multi-cloud production and development environments.
• Lead incident response foster a blameless postmortem culture and drive continuous improvement.
• Define and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity strategies to ensure service resilience.

Stakeholder and Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with the Director of Software Engineering DevOps teams and other technology leaders to enable seamless integration between cloud platforms and application development.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on cloud trends emerging technologies and strategic opportunities.
• Work closely with Information Security to enhance and maintain a strong proactive threat posture.
• Partner with product engineering and data teams to ensure cloud capabilities are optimized for current and future needs facilitating successful release management
• Represent Cloud Engineering in engineering forums and steering groups.

Qualifications :

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field (Masters degree preferred).
• 10 years of experience in cloud engineering or infrastructure leadership roles with at least 5 years in a senior management capacity.
• Proven expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure including architecture operations and security.
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform Ansible etc.).
• Experience managing large-scale mission-critical cloud environments in a global organization.
• Exceptional leadership communication and stakeholder management skills. 

Preferred Certifications

• Google Professional Cloud Architect
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• AWS experience (optional but beneficial)
• PMP or equivalent project management certification

Leadership Competencies

• Proven ability to translate high-level strategic vision into executable result-driven plans.
• Excels at decisive problem-solving and critical decision-making in high-pressure environments.
• Inspirational leaders with a track record of uniting cross-functional teams to achieve shared objectives.
• Demonstrates high cultural intelligence fostering effective collaboration across diverse global teams.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time