Director, Cloud Operations

Job overview

The Director, Cloud Operations role is listed in Denver, CO; the posting does not specify whether the arrangement is onsite, hybrid, or remote. The annual salary range is $190,000–$220,000 plus bonus. Vertafore provides digital systems and data-driven technology for insurance agencies, MGAs, and carriers. The director leads a major functional area of the hybrid cloud infrastructure platform, ensuring foundational services are reliable, scalable, automated, and governed. The role provides operational and strategic leadership to a global engineering team and partners with product development, site reliability, and information security to support SaaS delivery.

What you'll do

• Oversee AWS and colocation infrastructure
• ensure availability and resilience of networking, storage, DNS, identity, and virtualization services
• drive infrastructure modernization
• oversee AWS governance and policy enforcement
• partner on cost visibility and optimization
• lead infrastructure-as-code and automation adoption
• support security controls, patching, and vulnerability management
• collaborate with SRE and product engineering
• manage and mentor engineering leaders and senior engineers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

director cloud operations

denver co listing

vertafore

aws

hybrid cloud

infrastructure leadership

saas

terraform

cloudformation

finops

$190k–$220k plus bonus

travel up to 20%

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• VIP bonus
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and company match
• 10 paid company holidays
• paid time off accrual
• discounts on products and services.

Why this role

The posting states travel is required up to 20% of the time. The role requires 12+ years in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering and 5+ years in engineering leadership.

About the employer

Vertafore is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.