Director, Cloud Infrastructure

London, UK

Hybrid

Director

Full Time

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Requirements

•Experience leading Infrastructure, Platform, SRE, Cloud, or Developer Platform teams in scaling SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, API, data, or developer-tools companies.
•Experience operating systems with high request volume, multi-region production, strict uptime expectations, large cloud bills, customer-facing incidents, and trust requirements.
•Experience building or running production platforms with Kubernetes, GCP or AWS, Terraform or similar infrastructure as code, service discovery, networking, API gateways, CDNs, observability, CI/CD, and incident response.
•Technical depth to debate architecture with senior engineers and make practical decisions.
•Ability to split central platform ownership from product-team service ownership effectively.
•Experience improving on-call and reliability through systems, standards, and feedback loops.
•Ability to create and execute infrastructure strategy.
•Strong communication skills with executives, product leaders, engineers, and customer-facing teams.
•Experience managing managers or senior technical leads.
•Based in Europe or North America with strong overlap with European engineering hours.

•Set the infrastructure strategy for Sanity's next stage of scale, including cloud infrastructure, reliability, deployment, observability, security, cost, and developer experience.
•Lead teams responsible for shared engineering foundations such as GCP projects, Kubernetes, networking, service discovery, routing, gateways, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.
•Define clear ownership boundaries between Platform and SRE teams.
•Raise reliability standards across production systems including dashboards, alert severity, paging standards, service ownership, on-call readiness, and incident response.
•Improve deployment processes with clear golden paths, production readiness checks, safe rollouts, and automation.
•Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, Support, Sales, and Customer Success on infrastructure impacting customers.
•Manage cloud cost discipline while supporting business growth.
•Develop long-term architecture for multi-region scale, disaster recovery, data residency, and compliance with trust requirements like SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA.
•Hire, coach, and develop infrastructure leaders and engineers.

•Real infrastructure scale and a clear mandate to change how it works.
•A senior seat in R&D close to Product, Engineering, Security, and customer-facing teams.
•A highly skilled, inspiring, and supportive team.
•A positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment supporting long-term professional and personal growth.
•A global, culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers.
•Comprehensive health plans and perks.
•A healthy work-life balance accommodating individual and family needs.
•Competitive stock options and location-based salary.