Director, DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

• Own uptime, availability, scalability, and performance of all production systems.
• Define and manage SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and incident response practices.
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive systemic reliability improvements.
• Implement observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing).

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Own cloud infrastructure strategy (AWS, Azure, hybrid).
• Lead infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, etc.).
• Working with GRC, Ensure disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity plans are tested and compliant.
• Monitor and optimize cloud spend through cost governance and FinOps practices.

DevOps, CI/CD & Engineering Enablement

• Own CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release strategies.
• Enable safe, frequent releases (blue/green, canary, feature flags).
• Standardize DevOps tooling and platform capabilities across teams.
• Partner with Engineering to remove friction and increase delivery velocity.

Monitoring, Alerting, and Event Management

• Set plan and manage execution of dashboards, availability management and reporting.
• Align with Product Engineering teams to define NFRs related to definition, instrumentation and logging

Security & Compliance

• Embed security into DevOps practices (DevSecOps).
• Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance on audits and certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI, etc.).
• Ensure secrets management, access controls, and vulnerability remediation.

Leadership & Strategy

• Build and lead DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Engineering teams.
• Define the DevOps operating model (centralized, embedded, hybrid).
• Establish KPIs for reliability, deployment frequency, MTTR, and cost efficiency.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Product, IT, Security, and Data teams.
• Contribute to long-term technology and architecture roadmap.

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, cloud engineering, and infrastructure.
• 5+ years as a Director in leadership/people management role (leading managers and/or large teams)
• Deep expertise in modern tools and practices:
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
• Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane).
• Monitoring/Observability (DataDog, Sumo, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic).
• Scripting/automation (Python, Go, Bash).
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum/SAFe methodologies.
• Proven track record of building high-performance teams and driving cultural change.
• Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience with large-scale, high-availability environments.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Terraform Associate, SRE-related).
• Experience in regulated industries (healthcare) or with ML/AI infrastructure.
• Background in cost management and cloud financial operations (FinOps).