Director, DevOps Engineering

The Director of DevOps Engineering owns the organization's CI/CD pipeline architecture end-to-end, with primary accountability for embedding automated security controls into every stage of the pipeline (DevSecOps), building and operating ephemeral development and test environments, and leading release management and deployment strategy — including progressive delivery patterns such as Blue/Green and Canary deployments — for production releases. The individual must be capable of leading a technical team in a hands-on manner, partnering closely with Security, Engineering, and QA on release readiness, and driving the long-term pipeline, environment, and deployment roadmap in support of fast, safe, and repeatable software delivery.

Responsibilities

Owns the organization's CI/CD pipeline architecture end-to-end; Embeds automated security controls into every stage of the pipeline (DevSecOps); Builds and operates ephemeral development and test environments; Leads release management and deployment strategy, including Blue/Green and Canary deployments; Supervises all roles assigned to the DevOps Engineering department; Standardizes pipeline tooling and patterns across engineering teams; Implements policy-as-code in the pipeline to enforce security and compliance; Owns automation for the ephemeral environment lifecycle, including provisioning, data seeding and masking, teardown, and cost controls; Defines and leads deployment strategy with progressive delivery patterns; Evaluates and introduces deployment and progressive-delivery tooling; Owns workload-level orchestration and deployment routing within Kubernetes clusters; Maintains infrastructure-as-code and automation practices; Establishes KPIs for pipeline reliability, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (DORA metrics); Participates in joint incident triage with the Cloud Infrastructure Director; Builds, leads, and mentors a high-performing team of DevOps engineers; Promotes cross-functional collaboration between DevOps, Security, Development, and QA teams

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience); 5-8 years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, or Software Engineering; 5+ years in leadership roles managing engineering or DevOps teams; Proven experience building and scaling CI/CD pipeline architecture and release processes; Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines and tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins); Deep experience with DevSecOps tooling, including SAST/DAST/SCA platforms (e.g., Snyk, Checkmarx, SonarQube), container/image scanning (e.g., Trivy, Aqua, Prisma Cloud), and secrets detection; Deep experience with policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., Open Policy Agent/Conftest); Deep experience with ephemeral environment provisioning patterns (e.g., namespace-per-PR, environment-as-code, Terraform workspaces); Deep experience with progressive delivery and deployment strategy, including Blue/Green and Canary deployments, automated rollback, and feature-flag platforms (e.g., LaunchDarkly); Deep experience with deployment and traffic-shifting tooling (e.g., Argo Rollouts, Flagger, service mesh or load-balancer-based routing); Deep experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes); Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP); Strong understanding of release management practices, including versioning strategy, release cadence, and change management/approval workflows; Strong understanding of DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR); Strong understanding of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry); Strong strategic thinking with the ability to translate vision into execution; Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders; Proven ability to lead through change and drive adoption of new technologies and practices; Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities; Experience managing multiple initiatives in fast-paced environments

Nice to have

Experience embedding security checks directly into CI/CD pipelines and partnering with security teams on vulnerability remediation SLAs; Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP); Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, CKS); DevSecOps-related certifications (e.g., Certified DevSecOps Professional, HashiCorp Terraform Associate)