Director of Cloud Infrastructure & Security

The role

Lead a small team of six senior engineers across Cloud Infrastructure (DevOps/SRE) and Security. This is a hands-on Director role that combines strategy and roadmap with direct work on architecture, incidents and delivery, owning the reliability, cost-efficiency and security of production systems.

What you will do

• Directly lead, develop and retain a team of six engineers across Cloud Infrastructure and Security
• Define a joint roadmap for both teams aligned to business priorities and risk appetite
• Establish KPIs, SLOs and risk metrics and report regularly to leadership
• Own the AWS and GCP footprint end to end, including EKS, networking, secrets, data stores and the edge (Cloudflare)
• Establish reliability engineering practice: SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning and a business continuity plan
• Drive infrastructure-as-code maturity, including Terraform automation, GitOps with ArgoCD and policy-as-code
• Own FinOps: infrastructure cost per unit of business value and cost accountability for each team
• Own security strategy and posture across cloud, application, identity, detection and response
• Ensure compliance with GDPR, PCI DSS v4, NIS2 and CIS v8
• Manage third-party and supply-chain security risk

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE or Cloud Security, including leading engineers
• Strong practical experience with public cloud, ideally AWS, Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Track record establishing reliability practice at scale: SLOs, incident management, on-call, capacity planning, disaster recovery
• Demonstrable cloud cost optimisation or 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 technical trade-offs to a CFO and risk decisions to engineers
• Comfortable operating with a lean team with ruthless prioritisation and automation over headcount

Benefits

• Bonus
• Health coverage
• Lunch vouchers
• Gym-Pass
• Additional legal perks depending on location
• Dedicated learning and growth budget
• Hybrid model, typically 2 days remote per week
• 2 paid days per year to support a cause of your choice

Before you apply

• The posting says the company will only contact candidates from official email addresses ending in @vestiairecollective.com or no-reply@hire.lever.co, and never via WhatsApp, Telegram or similar platfo
• The posting says the company will never ask for payment or banking information at any stage of the process

About the company

Vestiaire Collective is a global platform for pre-loved fashion, founded in Paris in 2009, with around 600 people from over 50 nationalities. The company aims to make circular fashion the norm.