Head of Cloud Engineering and Security

Curinos is seeking a Head of Cloud Engineering & Security to provide scaled leadership across our Technology Infrastructure and DevOps organization. Reporting to the Chief Technology, Product & AI Officer, this leader will be responsible for modernizing our infrastructure strategy and operating model, guiding and accelerating Curinos’ transition from hybrid infrastructure (data center + AWS) to a fully cloud-native AWS + Databricks environment over the next 18 months.

This role will play a critical leadership position in transforming both the technology stack and the organizational maturity of our infrastructure function. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical depth in cloud engineering, combined with proven experience leading organizational change-improving performance management, strengthening leadership capability, and implementing modern site reliability and on-call practices. Curinos maintains an aggressive Security Posture. This individual will drive the team’s vulnerability management and compliance work as a major function of the role.

Responsibilities

• Optimize and execute Curinos’ cloud infrastructure strategy, leading the migration from hybrid to fully Cloud-based architecture.
• Establish modern DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including incident management, observability, and on-call structures.
• Build and scale a high-performing Cloud Engineering organization with clear accountability, performance standards, and development pathways.
• Strengthen leadership and management capability across the team, coaching managers and developing future leaders.
• Drive infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) adoption using tools such as Terraform or similar frameworks.
• Assess and improve overall CI/CD tooling and workflows at Curinos to help uplevel our SDLC processes
• Ensure high availability, scalability, security, and compliance of all infrastructure platforms supporting Curinos products.
• Collaborate closely with Product Engineering, AI Platform, Data Platform, and Security teams to align infrastructure capabilities with product needs.
• Improve operational resilience, including redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Optimize cost management and financial efficiency across AWS cloud environments.
• Serve as a senior leader and advisor to executive stakeholders on cloud strategy, risk, and modernization roadmap.

• 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading large-scale cloud migrations, particularly to AWS with advanced data technologies like Databricks.
• Deep expertise in AWS services, cloud architecture, and distributed systems design.
• Experience building and leading DevOps or SRE teams, including implementing on-call models and reliability practices.
• Strong background in Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational transformation and improve team performance and accountability.
• Experience working in regulated industries (financial services preferred) and supporting SOC 2 and ISO 27001:2022 compliance.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent career experience.

Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Unlimited paid time off
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule, * Competitive benefits, including a range of Financial, Health and Lifestyle benefits to choose from
• Flexible working options, including home working, flexible hours and part time options, depending on the role requirements - please ask!
• Unlimited PTO policy, floating holidays, volunteering days and a day off for your birthday
• Learning and development tools to assist with your career development
• Work with industry leading Subject Matter Experts and specialist products
• Regular social events and networking opportunities
• Collaborative, supportive culture, including an active DE&I program
• Employee Assistance Program which provides expert third-party advice on wellbeing, relationships, legal and financial matters, as well as access to counselling services

Curinos empowers financial institutions to put customers at the center of every decision. Our AI-first platform transforms proprietary data, advanced analytics and deep financial services expertise into timely recommendations - delivered right where teams work. The result: confident decisions, stronger customer relationships, and lasting, profitable growth.

Curinos operates under a hybrid modality and has office locations in New York, Chicago, Boston, Toronto, and London. This role is open to hybrid/ remote candidates based in the United States.