Director of DevOps

Role overview Lead several DevOps and automation teams through large-scale infrastructure modernization, including migration from on-premises environments to cloud-native systems. The position combines organizational leadership with hands-on technical direction for reliable delivery pipelines and data-intensive workloads across cloud platforms.

Responsibilities - Lead and develop multiple distributed DevOps and automation teams, supporting hiring, retention, career growth, and technical standards. - Set direction for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, orchestration, and shared DevOps practices across product teams. - Guide cloud migration and modernization of legacy workloads, including systems that process large volumes of data. - Oversee scalable and secure deployment pipelines and multi-cloud infrastructure, including monitoring and cost management. - Work with platform, reliability, data, and security teams to align infrastructure capabilities with business needs. - Establish delivery and operational measures; coordinate incident response, disaster recovery, continuity planning, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements - 12+ years in technology, including 7+ years in DevOps or platform engineering and 5+ years leading and scaling teams. - Experience managing global, distributed teams and delivering enterprise-scale cloud migrations or infrastructure modernization. - Deep Kubernetes experience, including cluster operations, networking, and security. - Strong experience with Terraform, CI/CD platforms, configuration automation, Git workflows, and artifact management. - Multi-cloud experience across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, plus familiarity with Helm and container security. - Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, influence stakeholders, translate business needs into technical plans, and operate through ambiguity.

Nice to have A relevant degree or advanced certifications; familiarity with Spark, Hadoop, SQL processing, data lakes, analytics architectures, or pipeline orchestration; and experience with observability, security scanning, DevSecOps, or GitOps tools.

Benefits and work setup The listing describes the role as home-based in New York.