Director of DevOps

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Remote
• Salary: (Salary not provided)

A highly skilled and experienced Director of DevOps is sought to lead the company's DevOps strategy, drive automation, and optimize software delivery pipelines. This role will focus on managing cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, site reliability, security, and performance monitoring. The Director will collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to implement best practices and foster a seamless, scalable, and resilient DevOps culture.

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Cloud Platforms: Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Kubernetes: Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and automation.
• Networking & Security: Strong knowledge of networking, security, and monitoring tools.
• Microservices & Distributed Systems: Experience with microservices, containers, and distributed systems.
• GitOps & DevSecOps: Hands-on experience with GitOps, DevSecOps, and SRE principles.
• Leadership & Communication: Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership

• Define and execute the company's DevOps roadmap.
• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, SREs, and automation specialists.
• Drive a culture of automation, continuous improvement, and collaboration.

Infrastructure & Cloud Management

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Oversee containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Establish infrastructure-as-code (IaC) best practices.

CI/CD & Automation

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive automation for deployment, monitoring, and self-healing systems.
• Implement observability and logging solutions (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

Security & Compliance

• Ensure DevSecOps principles are integrated into the software development lifecycle.
• Implement security best practices (IAM policies, vulnerability scanning, secrets management).
• Maintain compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR etc.).

Performance & Reliability

• Define SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for system reliability and uptime.
• Oversee incident management, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Optimize performance tuning and capacity planning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in high-availability, large-scale environments.
• Certifications (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes Administrator, etc.).
• Experience in machine learning infrastructure.

Company Information

(Company information not provided in the job description)