DaySmart

Director of Developer Platform – Infrastructure

DaySmart

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Arizona, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $225,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGrafanaKubernetes

About the role

  • Build and Drive Adoption of the DaySmart Developer Platform
  • Lead the design, evolution, and rollout of our opinionated developer platform.
  • Maintain and improve core components such as Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Kargo, and Grafana Cloud.
  • Embed platform engineers with product teams to onboard and migrate their applications.
  • Ensure the platform delivers real value to product teams by solving their delivery challenges at scale.
  • Bake security and compliance expectations into platform workflows so teams inherit good practices automatically.
  • Make the platform simple, consistent, and intuitive so developers can focus on delivering software.
  • Ensure Stability, Reliability, and Scalable Growth
  • Provide architecture guidance that supports reliable and predictable operations.
  • Partner with teams to improve the health and maturity of their services within platform guardrails.
  • Define standards for logging, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Maintain the cloud infrastructure that underpins the platform.
  • Promote good operational practices that reduce incidents and operational noise.
  • Promote Efficiency Through FinOps and Operational Clarity
  • Build clear cost-visibility tools and dashboards for engineering teams.
  • Help teams understand and optimize their resource usage.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce waste and scale workloads efficiently.
  • Foster a culture of thoughtful resource consumption and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Leadership experience in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes (EKS), GitOps workflows, and cloud-native patterns.
  • Hands-on AWS and on-premise experience.
  • Experience driving adoption of an internal platform or standardized delivery model.
  • Ability to embed with teams, guide migrations, and simplify complex systems.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code workflows.
  • Background with cost optimization or engineering efficiency programs.
  • Prior experience in organizations consolidating or maturing infrastructure practices.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and benefits including medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, and more!
  • 401k plan with company match on your contributions.
  • Open PTO and a generous paid holiday schedule.
  • Supportive work environment with the flexibility to work where/how you want in-office, remote, or hybrid.
  • Opportunities to ensure you are always learning and growing.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
KubernetesArgoCDKargoGrafana CloudAWSinfrastructure-as-codeGitOpscloud-native patternscost optimizationengineering efficiency
Soft skills
leadershipguidancesimplificationcollaborationcontinuous improvementresource optimizationoperational clarityproblem-solvingcommunicationadaptability