MotorK sits at the intersection of deep vertical complexity - automotive SaaS, 10,000+ dealerships, enterprise-grade requirements - and a company that has gone all-in on AI as its primary engine of scale. We believe vertical SaaS captures the most value from AI, and none of that value is reachable unless the data underneath it is modeled, governed and engineered right.
The Head of Cloud will lead the evolution of MotorK's cloud infrastructure environment to a state of the art AI driven platform engineering team.
We're seeking candidates who bring:
- Leadership Excellence: A proven history of guiding teams and projects to success.
- Technical Proficiency: A strong understanding of modern technologies and the ability to adapt quickly.
- AWS & Kubernetes Mastery: Hands-on experience with these platforms, enabling you to build and manage complex systems.
- All In on AI: We are extreme on AI adoption, we do everything with AI, cloud infra is no difference
This role offers the opportunity and autonomy to make decisions in the cloud and infrastructure domain for the leading SaaS company in the European automotive industry and to guide your colleagues in software development to adopt best practices in CI/CD, SRE, and infra maintenance.
Requirements
- Extensive experience (minimum of 8 years) working in a live production cloud infrastructure is essential. Experience in environments serving thousands of clients with SLA commitments is highly advantageous.
- Proven experience in production-critical environments with SRE framework adoptions is necessary. You will be expected to develop/build the observability platform and lead the implementation of a mature SRE framework across company products and development teams, ensuring SLO/SLA for our customers.
- Obsessed on AI. Everything should be AI First / AI driven / Done with AI
- Good Knowledge of Cloud Services, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Governance & Cost Control experience is essential, as MotorK is a cloud-native environment.
- Solid understanding of:
- Infrastructure as a code at scale.
- AWS Governance Experience, with a focus on Security & Networking.
- FinOps and Cost Controlling.
- Disaster recovery and business continuity in cloud environments.
- Solid experience in CI/CD tools and frameworks and DevOps adoption as you are required to evolve the CI/CD platform and help other teams in adopting best practices in continuous deployment.
- This is a leadership position. You will lead your team and champion the use of best practices throughout MotorK's Tech organization. Prior experience in team management and the ability to communicate effectively in senior management settings are essential for this role.
Benefits
- Salary from €85,000/year with the final offer adjusted based on experience and skill set.
- Meal vouchers
- 26 days holiday + national holidays
- 30 days a year to work from wherever you want
- A flexible hybrid setup
- Genuine room to grow - nationally and internationally. We move fast, and so do careers here.
MotorK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any kind. Our company is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at MotorK are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, age, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
Skills Required
- Minimum 8 years of experience working in live production cloud infrastructure
- Experience in production-critical environments with SRE framework adoption
- Experience developing or building observability platforms
- Knowledge of cloud services, cloud architecture, cloud governance, and cost control
- Experience with infrastructure as code at scale
- AWS governance experience focused on security and networking
- FinOps and cloud cost-control experience
- Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity in cloud environments
- Solid experience with CI/CD tools and frameworks
- Experience driving DevOps adoption and continuous deployment best practices
- Experience managing teams
- Ability to communicate effectively in senior management settings
- Hands-on AWS and Kubernetes experience
- Experience serving thousands of clients with SLA commitments
What We Do
MotorK is the leading European company specialising in SaaS technology for automotive retail. MotorK enables the digital transformation of mobility players with an innovative software-as-a-service platform, the SparK Platform, encompassing an array of digital solutions designed to help manufacturers, dealers and service centres enhance their sales and marketing performance and better meet customers’ needs, along the entire vehicle lifecycle as well as customer journey. Founded in Italy in 2010 and backed by leading investment firms 83 North and Zobito, today MotorK is a listed company (Euronext Amsterdam) with operations in eight countries and the ambition to further expand its geographic footprint across Europe and beyond. Committed to continuous innovation and featuring the largest R&D department in the digital automotive industry in Europe, MotorK is on a mission to shape the future of mobility and become the most trusted technology partner for the mobility distribution. MotorK has been recognised by multiple organisations as one of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe – including Euronext TechShare, Tech Tour 50, Technology Fast 500 EMEA and the FT 1000. For more information, please visit: www.motork.io









