Director, Cloud Governance

About the role

Scopely is seeking a Director, Cloud Governance to lead efforts in establishing and enforcing standards, policies, and guardrails across Scopely’s multi-cloud environment. This is a remote opportunity for individuals in Canada or the United States.

As a Director, Cloud Governance you will play a pivotal leadership role in defining and executing the Scopely’s Cloud Governance strategy. This team will define, implement, and enforce the policies and controls that govern how cloud infrastructure is used across a decentralized organization of game, platform, and product teams.

This role is critical to bringing structure, consistency, and guardrails to Scopely’s cloud footprint, and will be key in modernizing our overall governance posture. As a central leader, you will drive alignment across highly autonomous teams and translate governance into practical, adoptable solutions while balancing control and development velocity.

This is a foundational leadership role; you will establish governance from the ground up, introduce scalable and enforceable controls, and drive adoption and buy-in across various teams, stakeholders, and senior leaders.

What You Will Do

Build & Lead Cloud Governance

- Build and lead a Cloud Governance team

- Define the operating model for how governance partners with game teams, security, and FinOps

- Establish clear ownership and enforcement mechanisms for cloud policies

Define & Enforce Cloud Guardrails

- Design and implement enforceable controls across AWS and GCP, including:

- AWS Organizations, Service Control Policies (SCPs)

- GCP Organization Policies and IAM constraints

- Establish guardrails around:

- Resource provisioning and service usage

- Region restrictions and data residency

- Identity and access management

- Network architecture and environment isolation

- Own the mandate to enforce policies, including the ability to restrict or block non-compliant usage

Standardize Cloud Structure

- Define and implement standards for:

- AWS account structure and GCP project/folder hierarchy

- Environment segmentation (prod, staging, dev)

- Naming conventions and resource organization

- Bring consistency across a fragmented, multi-team cloud footprint

Tagging & Governance

- Define and enforce tagging standards in partnership with FinOps

- Ensure all resources are attributable (ownership, environment, cost center)

- Enable downstream cost allocation and operational visibility

Stakeholder Partnership

- Collaborate with FinOps on cost allocation and optimization levers (budgets, quotas, usage controls)

- Partner with Security to align governance with security and compliance requirements