Head of Cloud Infrastructure

🕒 September 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

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☁️ Cloud Engineer

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YipitData

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201 - 500 employees

💸 Finance

🏢 Enterprise

Finance • Enterprise • Data Analysis

YipitData is a company that specializes in providing accurate, timely insights on over 1,000 companies by analyzing billions of data points every day. They offer detailed research to help investors make smarter decisions and assist companies in increasing market share, sales, and customer base. YipitData delivers alternative data through a range of datasets, including receipt data, card data, web data, and publicly reported earnings. This data is used to track market trends, consumer behavior, and product categories, enabling businesses to gain transparency into performance metrics. Their services cater to investors, companies, and data partners, with a strong focus on accuracy and near real-time data delivery.

📋 Description

• Set and execute a prioritized cloud-infrastructure modernization roadmap for AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and the broader platform ecosystem • Lead a small, high-leverage global team spanning cloud platform, SRE, and DevOps • Provide direction, coaching, and hands-on technical judgment • Deliver reliable paved roads, reusable infrastructure capabilities, self-service workflows, and faster feedback loops • Establish and mature reliability practices, including service ownership, SLIs and SLOs, incident management, error budgets, observability, and post-incident follow-through • Own disaster-recovery strategy and readiness, including recovery objectives, testing, automation, and resilience-gap closure • Design a sustainable 24/7 operational model covering on-call responsibilities, escalation paths, incident leadership, and global-team collaboration • Partner with the Chief Architect and engineering leaders to define platform priorities and clarify ownership boundaries • Help application and data teams operate workloads effectively on shared infrastructure • Define baselines and measure delivery performance, developer experience, platform adoption, reliability, operational health, and cloud unit economics • Improve cloud efficiency through cost attribution, capacity planning, Kubernetes resource utilization, automation, and measurable savings • Report to the Chief Architect and partner with Security, Enterprise IT, and engineering leaders

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant infrastructure, SRE, platform engineering, or developer productivity experience • Hands-on expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform • Experience leading approximately 3–10 infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps engineers • Experience building or materially transforming a platform function • Experience operating mature, business-critical production infrastructure • Experience scaling a data-intensive SaaS, analytics, or similarly complex technology organization through rapid growth • Experience owning formal reliability practices, including SLOs, incident management, production operations, and disaster recovery • Ability to design a sustainable on-call model • Experience improving developer velocity or platform experience through self-service capabilities, standardized workflows, internal platform adoption, or measurable reductions in engineering friction • Ability to translate technical strategy into an actionable roadmap and make thoughtful tradeoffs • Ability to influence the Chief Architect, engineering leaders, and partner teams through clear communication and credible technical judgment • Experience delivering measurable cloud-cost or infrastructure-efficiency improvements • Understanding of smart architecture across services for technology-cost optimization • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience • Availability for US working hours with sufficient overlap to lead and collaborate with a globally distributed team

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work hours • Flexible vacation • Generous 401K match • Parental leave • Team events • Wellness budget • Learning reimbursement • Equity • Bonus