Director of DevOps

About the role

A leadership role guiding several DevOps and automation teams through a shift from legacy on-premises systems to cloud-native architectures. The position blends strategic vision with hands-on execution, especially in big data and large-scale cloud migrations.

What you will do

• Set standards for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, pipelines, containers and orchestration across product teams
• Direct technical execution of cloud migrations for legacy data center workloads
• Design automation for big data processing systems built on SQL and Spark
• Partner with platform, SRE, data and security teams to align capabilities with business goals

What they look for

• Twelve or more years in technology, including seven or more in DevOps or platform engineering
• Five or more years leading and scaling DevOps teams of 15 or more people
• Experience managing global distributed teams with offshore and contractor resources
• Proven enterprise-scale cloud migrations and infrastructure modernization
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes skills covering cluster management, networking and security
• Proficiency with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Nexus, Ansible and Git workflows

Nice to have

• Data platform management with Snowflake or Databricks
• Experience managing complex cross-functional technical initiatives
• Proven ability to drive organizational change and adoption