IT & Security Director

Cloud cost management is one of the biggest challenges organizations face today. As cloud adoption continues to accelerate, so do the complexities and costs associated with it — and macroeconomic conditions only increase pressure to prove cloud efficiency. That’s why we built CloudZero: a SaaS platform at the intersection of next-generation cloud cost management and FinOps. CloudZero ingests billing and usage data from all cloud, SaaS, and PaaS providers, organizes it in real time according to our customers’ business structures, lets customers view it at any level of time or resource granularity, and ultimately empowers them to make more informed business decisions.

Since our founding, our mission has been to make efficient innovation a reality for every cloud-driven organization. At CloudZero, we believe every engineering decision is a buying decision, yet the cost conversation often bypasses the engineers who drive those determinations. To solve this, we’ve built a dynamic, single-page application that answers the complex, data-heavy questions every cloud-based organization needs to ask if they want to grow their company profitably.

To date, we’ve raised over $52 million from leading venture capital firms across the country. We’re solving problems of massive scale, business importance, and complexity in a space that needs it more than ever. We’re growing rapidly and would love for you to be a part of it!

Responsibilities:

• Partner with key stakeholders across the organization to ensure that IT infrastructure and approach is consistent with key operational and sales business functions.
• Work across various product and engineering teams to prioritize security features and bugs, and ensure implementation and mitigations.
• Partner with Engineering and advise on security assessments (dynamic testing, static testing, code review, etc.) and threat modeling of Catapult products, services, and associated cloud infrastructure.
• Efficiently operate and scale the IT operations.
• Ensure the business has the data and tools it needs to make decisions in a timely, accurate, and flexible manner.
• Lead incident management and resolution as required including identify and deliver areas of improvement.
• Design Cloud footprint for internal business operations, ( Sales, Finance, HR, Marketing and Operations departments) and assist in evaluating and selecting the appropriate tools necessary to meet the underlying business objectives.
• Establish both operational effectiveness and performance improvements through the effective delivery of IT services, including overseeing management of business. collaboration tools and their respective maintenance, configuration, and integration.
• Recommend and implement processes that show how IT investments are delivering on their expected/committed value proposition.
• Monitor changes or advancements in technology to discover ways the company can gain a competitive advantage.
• Develop and implement an IT governance framework, underlying policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines for the company
• Analyze the costs, value, and risks of information technology and recommend actions within a defined budget.
• Provide leadership and direction to all team members.
• Bring clarity and direction to strategic business decisions by enabling the data used within the company to map to key company goals, metrics, and data insights.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of experience working in an enterprise environment with public/private cloud environments.
• A background in software development, preferably DevSecOps.
• Successful track record of IT Leadership, execution and delivery.
• Experience in organizations with established IT infrastructure within rapidly growing companies where systems and processes need to be designed and implemented.
• Extensive experience working in an enterprise environment with private/public cloud environments with deep knowledge in secure development practices, and integration into broader engineering activities.
• Exceptional presentation skills with proven ability to present strategic information to, and drive change across a broad range of technical and business internal audiences.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills and ability to build cross-functional relationships and the trust necessary to drive change.
• Proven focus on internal customer satisfaction.
• Experience with product / service architectures in modern cloud environments (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS), and with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Application and infrastructure security testing methodologies and tools.
• Security design / architectur