Director, Engineering Operations

On Location

Director of Engineering Operations leading technology operations for On Location. Overseeing engineering, incident management, and operational excellence for Core platforms in sports and entertainment.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeAustin • New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own end-to-end engineering operations across RTB
Drive AI-enabled operational efficiency and automation
Establish comprehensive observability with golden signals
Define and uphold SLOs for critical domains
Standardize Datadog logs
Measure and improve delivery performance through DORA metrics
Mature incident and security response
Publish clear operational health reports

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years in software engineering operations
Experience leading and improving team performance measuring against DORA metrics
Proven track record leading incident response and postmortems
Hands-on experience implementing observability and SLO/SLI frameworks
Strong background with CI/CD and automated testing strategies
Excellent stakeholder management
Ability to lead and execute through ambiguity and high-demand events

Benefits

Comp & perks

health care
retirement
vacation and other paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineering operationsDORA metricsincident responseobservability frameworksSLOSLICI/CDautomated testingoperational efficiencyautomation

Soft Skills

team performance improvementstakeholder managementleadershipexecution through ambiguitycommunication