Director of Cloud Operations & IT Hybrid Denver Metro

As our Director of Cloud Operations & IT youll own everything from end-user IT to cloud infrastructure to security compliance leading a small team mentoring junior staff and serving as the primary bridge between technical operations and executive leadership. You have 8 years of infrastructure and DevOps experience and are comfortable working alongside engineers as a partner not a gatekeeper - you know how to earn their trust by making their lives easier. Your startup DNA means youre ready to build and do simultaneously establishing the foundation that supports a growing company serving demanding enterprise customers in the worlds most regulated industries. This is meaningful complex work at the intersection of AI and legacy systems if you thrive where the problems are real the resources are finite and the wins are earned lets talk.

Your Values: Curiosity Emotional Intelligence Efficiency 

Heres some of what needs to be done:

• Owning the Azure environment - architecture security configuration cost management and ongoing optimization
• Setting CI/CD pipeline standards and driving build time improvements to under 20 minutes
• Managing environments across dev staging and production including co-location infrastructure
• Owning technical controls for the SOC 2 Type II program collaborating with the compliance PM and leveraging Vanta
• Developing and enforcing security policy managing vulnerability response patching and incident handling
• Managing device lifecycle identity and access Entra ID SSO MFA and Microsoft 365 administration
• Directly managing and mentoring two staff members overseeing knowledge transfer from an existing contractor and delivering regular operational updates to the executive team

Qualifications :

And what itll take to get it done:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent professional experience
• 8 years in infrastructure or DevOps including 3 years in a senior or leadership role
• Proven experience in a small company or startup where you wore multiple hats and built things from scratch
• Hands-on Azure expertise across architecture security configuration and cost management
• Experience leading or meaningfully contributing to a SOC 2 Type I or II certification
• Awareness of DevOps best practices and security considerations for enterprise financial services customers
• Cloud infrastructure fluency - Azure required; AWS or GCP experience transferable
• Infrastructure as Code experience - Terraform Bicep Pulumi or equivalent
• CI/CD platform experience - GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins or equivalent
• Familiarity with compliance automation platforms - Vanta Drata Tugboat Logic or equivalent
• A mentorship mindset - you invest in your teams growth and take satisfaction in watching them level up
• Capacity to translate risk and operational status into plain language for non-technical executives
• Ability to think critically justify decisions and guide change with respect 

Additional Information :

Our team enjoys:

• Base salary: $170000-$185000 plus an impressive benefits package
• The opportunity to put your name on revolutionary patent-pending AI technology
• A collaborative intellectually curious team tackling deeply complex problems
• The chance to make a meaningful lasting impact on the future of software development

Goldstone Partners is helping this team of thought leaders find a builder-leader who is ready to own something real. Applications welcome for those who are US Citizens or hold a Green Card.

Applications for this role are managed exclusively through Goldstone Partners using official email addresses. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time