Head of DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

Nimble's infrastructure is not a support function - it is the product: a global browser and proxy fleet, web-scale data pipelines, and an API our customers build their businesses on. We need a Director to set the strategy for everything underneath it - cloud, security, and the delivery lifecycle - and to bring AI into how that infrastructure is run.

This is a director-level leadership role, not an IC stretch assignment. You will lead our DevOps organization - which already has a team leader running day-to-day delivery - and operate one level up: setting direction, owning the roadmap, making architecture and build-vs-buy calls with authority, and representing infrastructure at the leadership table. Close enough to the work to guide it in depth, senior enough to own it end to end.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure and security as one strategy: architecture, scale, and the path to our next order of magnitude of growth, with our security and compliance posture (IAM, secrets, hardened baselines, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audit readiness) built in from the start, not bolted on.
• Own the SDLC end to end, and drive AI into every stage of it: measure delivery performance (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate) and use AI to improve each stage of the lifecycle - planning, code review, testing, release, and operations - alongside AIOps practices like automated/self-healing recovery and intelligent alerting.
• Own FinOps as a strategic discipline: the cloud bill is a P&L line you're accountable for, with unit economics driven down every quarter.
• Own vendor and contractual relationships across cloud, tooling, and infrastructure services - negotiating leverage, not just approving invoices.
• Lead the DevOps organization through its team leader: set technical direction and standards, develop the team leader into a stronger manager, and grow the bench beneath them.
• Partner as a peer with Backend, Infra, AI, Data, Product, Security and Finance leadership - infrastructure decisions get made with you in the room, not after.

Requirements

• 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, with a proven track record of scaling systems by an order of magnitude or more - not just operating at a scale someone else built.
• Led engineering teams at least twice, and led team managers at least once; at least two of those stints at strong, high-growth technology companies through a scale-up from roughly 50 to 200+ employees.
• Deep, hands-on credibility in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code, across AWS and at least one other major provider (Azure, GCP, or Oracle) - enough to guide and challenge the team's technical decisions directly.
• Proven ownership of FinOps / cloud cost strategy at meaningful scale, with a concrete result you can point to.
• Direct experience owning security posture and compliance (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 or equivalent) as an infrastructure leader, not just partnering with a security team.