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.