
Director of DevOps
Reveleer
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers, setting clear goals and fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture
- Define and evolve DevOps and platform engineering strategy across multiple product lines
- Establish clear ownership boundaries between DevOps, IT, and Security to reduce friction and improve delivery focus
- Build and scale the DevOps operating model to support a growing engineering organization
- Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Define standards for infrastructure-as-code and environment management across teams
- Drive consistency in cloud architecture and deployment patterns across products
- Own and standardize CI/CD practices across engineering teams to improve delivery speed and predictability
- Reduce deployment friction and improve developer productivity through automation and tooling
- Drive adoption of best practices across build, test, release, and deployment workflows
- Own our observability strategy using New Relic, ensuring meaningful alerting, dashboards, and SLOs/SLAs are in place
- Lead incident response processes, post-mortems, and reliability improvements
- Drive proactive performance tuning and capacity planning
- Partner with Security to ensure infrastructure and deployment practices meet compliance and security standards
- Implement and enforce controls across environments aligned with company and regulatory requirements
- Own and improve engineering delivery metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery
- Drive measurable improvements in system reliability, availability, and operational efficiency
- Partner with Finance and Engineering to improve cloud cost visibility and optimization
- Work closely with Product, Data, and Engineering leadership to align platform capabilities with business priorities
- Support customer-facing reliability and SLA commitments in partnership with Support and LiveOps teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering, with 3+ years in a leadership role
- Proven experience leading DevOps or platform teams in a cloud-first environment while remaining hands-on
- Current experience supporting engineering teams implementing scalable cloud architectures using CaC, IaC, and Kubernetes.
- Strong proficiency and hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, S3, and related services)
- Demonstrated experience guiding and leading other DevOps, cloud, and software engineers, leveling up technical proficiency and overall cloud capabilities.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration, including experience running production EKS clusters
- Solid understanding of networking and cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancers, DNS, and VPN/Direct Connect connectivity
- Experience managing CI/CD pipelines, preferably with Bitbucket Pipelines or similar tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
- Extensive experience leveraging observability tooling for logging, monitoring, alerting, incident management, and escalation (New Relic/Datadog/etc.)
- Familiarity with web application architecture concepts, such as databases, message queues, serverless and event-driven architectures, and caching mechanisms. Ability to work with Engineering teams to identify and resolve performance constraints
- Hands-on software development background — prior experience writing and shipping production code in any language, enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams and informed decision-making on tooling, pipelines, and developer workflows.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
- 401k match
- Generous PTO plan
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Hard Skills & Tools
DevOpsinfrastructuresite reliability engineeringcloud architectureinfrastructure-as-codeKubernetesCI/CDAWSTerraformobservability
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationgoal settingincident responseperformance tuningcapacity planningcommunicationproblem-solvingteam building