
VP/Director of TechOps – DevOps, SecOps
Shopmonkey
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $260,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Define and enforce SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets across Shopmonkey's production systems.
- Lead incident management end-to-end: on-call frameworks, blameless postmortems, and systemic remediation.
- Drive observability maturity — OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and the dashboards and alerts that give every team a clear signal.
- Ensure 99.9%+ availability for a platform processing critical business operations for thousands of shops.
- Own Shopmonkey's GCP-based cloud infrastructure: provisioning, scaling, cost optimization, and architectural evolution.
- Lead the internal platform team that builds developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment infrastructure that accelerates every engineering squad.
- Champion infrastructure-as-code practices, making our environments reproducible, auditable, and fast to provision.
- Partner with senior engineers on scalability decisions as we grow our customer base and data volumes.
- Own the engineering infrastructure and software budget as well as vendor relationships.
- Own the technical security posture of the platform: vulnerability management, secrets management, network security, and hardening.
- Lead compliance programs and certifications relevant to Shopmonkey's enterprise customers and growth trajectory (SOC 2 Type II, and beyond).
- Build a culture of security that is embedded into the development lifecycle — not bolted on at the end.
- Treat compliance not as a checkbox but as a multi-pillar investment that compounds trust with customers over time.
- Evangelize and operationalize DevOps principles across engineering: CI/CD, feature flags, progressive deployment, automated testing infrastructure.
- Drive down time-to-deploy, mean time to recovery (MTTR), and toil across the org.
- Partner with engineering leadership to ensure platform investments directly accelerate squad velocity.
- Build, retain, and grow a high-performing team spanning DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, and Infrastructure.
- Define org structure, hiring plans, and career ladders for TechOps disciplines.
- Develop managers and senior ICs; establish a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
- Lead with a servant-leadership mindset — remove blockers, amplify great work, and hold the bar high.
Requirements
- 10+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps — with at least 4–5 years in a senior leadership role (Director or VP level)
- Proven experience owning production reliability at a SaaS company with significant scale and uptime requirements.
- Demonstrated track record in building and evolving DevOps/platform engineering organizations from the ground up or through significant transformation.
- Experience leading cloud-native infrastructure on GCP, AWS, or Azure — with deep familiarity with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and managed cloud services.
- Prior ownership of security and compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar); able to fluently translate security requirements into engineering work.
- Experience in companies ranging from growth-stage to mid-scale SaaS ($50M–$500M ARR range), where you've had to build structure while maintaining velocity.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits available the 1st of the month following hire date
- Short term and long term disability
- Employee assistance program
- Reimbursement for a personal health and wellness membership
- Generous parental leave
- 401(k) available upon hire
- 11 paid holidays
- Flexible time off - take the time off you need!
- Matching donations for approved charitable organizations
- Group volunteer efforts
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
SLOsSLAserror budgetsincident managementOpenTelemetryPrometheusGCPinfrastructure-as-codeCI/CDKubernetes
Soft Skills
leadershipservant-leadershippsychological safetycontinuous learningteam buildingcommunicationownershipcollaborationproblem-solvingculture building
Certifications
SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001