Director of Engineering - Cloud Cost Optimisation Platform

Director of Engineering – Cloud Cost Optimisation Platform About the Role Virtasant is on a mission to revolutionise cloud cost optimisation. Our platform helps businesses reduce waste and maximise efficiency across multi-cloud environments. We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead the continued development of our platform, ensuring both its technical excellence and operational efficiency. This role is a hybrid of technical leadership, strategic direction, and hands-on engineering, requiring someone who can balance short-term client demands with long-term product vision. You’ll lead a high-performing engineering team, drive AI-driven automation, and scale our platform while ensuring cloud infrastructure best practices. If you’re passionate about cloud, DevOps, and AI-first automation, and can navigate the complexity of scaling both teams and technology, this is the role for you. What You’ll Do: Lead the engineering and operations teams responsible for building and maintaining Virtasant’s cloud cost optimisation platform. Drive the strategic direction of the platform - balancing immediate client needs with long-term scalability, efficiency, and automation. Architect and scale cloud infrastructure - ensuring a highly available, cost-effective, and scalable system across AWS and multi-cloud environments. Enhance automation & DevOps - implementing best practices to improve engineering efficiency and reduce operational overhead. AI-First Approach - explore ways to integrate AI-driven automation into our platform, from optimisation processes to intelligent deployment strategies. Balance technical & client-facing responsibilities - collaborate with internal teams, clients, and solution architects to ensure seamless integration of cost optimisation strategies. Guide engineering best practices - from Python-based backend development to React-driven front-end solutions, ensuring clean, maintainable, and scalable code. Drive a high-performance engineering culture - recruit, mentor, and develop a world-class team. What We’re Looking For: 10 years in engineering leadership : ideally in a cloud-native, SaaS, or FinOps-focused environment. Strong cloud infrastructure experience: AWS expertise is a must, with a deep understanding of scalability, networking, security, and cost optimisation. DevOps & Automation: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and a strong understanding of modern DevOps best practices. AI/Automation mindset: experience building AI-based automation tools, agents, or cloud optimisation solutions is a huge plus. Technical expertise in: Python (for backend systems) React (for front-end development) SQL/Data Processing (data-driven decision-making) Multiple cloud environments, particularly AWS, GCP, Azure AWS ecosystem architecture and design (Lambda, ECS, S3, DynamoDB, etc.) Experience balancing product strategy with client demands, understanding trade-offs between short-term fixes and long-term platform evolution. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment with strong decision-making, adaptability, and leadership under pressure. Nice-to-Have Experience: Cloud cost optimisation knowledge - understanding billing models, usage patterns, and cost-reduction techniques is a plus. Experience leading Solution Architects or client-facing teams - balancing technical leadership with commercial awareness. Startup / Scale-up experience - knowing how to grow and scale a tech platform while managing constraints. Why Join Virtasant? Fully remote role - work from anywhere while leading a world-class engineering team. Competitive compensation package with long-term growth opportunities. Opportunity to shape the future - lead the development of a cutting-edge cloud cost optimisation platform. AI-first mindset - help define the role of automation and AI in cloud cost efficiency. Fast-moving, high-impact environment -where your decisions directly shape the success of the product.