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Director of Cloud Infrastructure & Security

Vestiaire Collective· Tech – Engineering
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Hybrid (Paris)Permanent contractPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Leading a small team of six senior engineers across Cloud Infrastructure (DevOps/SRE) and Security, with hands-on ownership of architecture, incidents, and delivery to ensure reliability, cost-efficiency, and security of production systems.

Responsibilities

  • Directly lead, develop and retain a small team of six (6) experienced engineers across Cloud Infrastructure and Security.
  • Define a joint roadmap for both teams, aligned to business priorities and risk appetite, and make explicit calls on what we will not do.
  • Establish clear KPIs, SLOs and risk metrics, and report regularly to leadership on reliability, cost and security posture.
  • Set the operating model: what product teams self-serve behind guardrails versus what your teams own centrally.
  • Foster a culture where reliability and security are shared accountabilities, including Security Champions model across engineering.
  • Own our AWS and GCP footprint end to end: EKS, networking, secrets (Vault), data stores (RDS/Aurora, MSK, ElastiCache, MongoDB Atlas, OpenSearch) and the edge (Cloudflare).
  • Establish real reliability engineering practice: SLOs and error budgets, capacity planning, and a business continuity plan.
  • Drive infrastructure-as-code maturity: Automating Terraform change application, advancing move to GitOps (ArgoCD), enforcing guardrails at creation time with policy-as-code (Kyverno/OPA).
  • Consolidate observability into a single source of truth for metrics, logs and traces.
  • Improve developer experience and delivery throughput: CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), paved roads, test environments on demand, delivery metrics.
  • Own FinOps: infrastructure cost per unit of business value, cost accountability pushed back to each team, and run-rate reduction.
  • Support the modernisation of core platform: migrations, runtime and framework upgrades, continuous database and Kubernetes upgrades.
  • Automate recurring requests and hand self-service back to product teams.
  • Grow foundations for AI-augmented engineering and operations.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years with significant experience in Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE or Cloud Security, including experience leading engineers.
  • Current or prior role as Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager or Head of, ready to move into a Director role.
  • Strong practical experience with public cloud (ideally AWS), Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code, with willingness to stay close to architecture and delivery.
  • Track record establishing reliability practice at scale (SLOs, incident management, on-call, capacity planning, disaster recovery).
  • Demonstrable cloud cost optimisation / FinOps results at meaningful scale.
  • Strong grounding in cloud and application security fundamentals (IAM, network security, secrets management, CSPM, OWASP Top 10).
  • Working knowledge of compliance frameworks (GDPR, DORA, PCI DSS, NIS2) and turning requirements into practical controls.
  • Experience leading through incidents and security events under pressure.
  • Excellent communication skills; able to explain trade-offs to CFO and engineers.

Skills

Required:Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)KubernetesInfrastructure as CodeSecurity governance

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Health coverage
  • Lunch vouchers
  • Gym-Pass
  • Additional legal perks depending on location
  • Flexible hybrid model (typically 2 days remote per week)
  • 2 paid days per year to support a cause of your choice
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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