Director Infrastructure Operations

The Director Infrastructure Operations reports directly to the Chief Technology Officer and manages, inspires and motivates a group of onsite and remote DevOps engineers. He/she supports and ensures operations processes are clearly documented, communicated and understood to deliver a consistent high quality of service and reliability to our client’s organization.

• Leading the team through technical evolution towards scalable and modern architecture. Always have service availability top of mind to drive towards automation in delivering resilient and self-correcting systems
• Effective monitoring and alerting solutions that can be pre-emptive in detecting and resolving issues. Accountable for maintaining and exceeding service levels to ensure availability expectations are always met.
• Collaborating with other leaders to align towards common goals, bridge communications between multiple areas across product, technology, development, QA and support
• Supporting leadership as they define and drive technical vision and decisions, collaborating to help prioritize, set and own pod milestones, but also defining patterns and operational guidelines
• Contribute to and ensure Architecture Solutions have sound design, security, and built-in resiliency.
• Ensuring adherence to common software development design patterns
• Define and ensure the team’s software design patterns and operational guidelines
• Mentor and review, holding the highest standards for rigorously tested and elegant code

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of combined development and leadership experience including managing remote teams
• Experience modernizing legacy applications
• 5+ years of experience in web application development, preferably in an Agile environment and making impactful and cool tech
• Experience in PHP (legacy back-end technologies that is being phased out) and either Node.js or Python for modernizing to an innovative technology stack
• Experience with databases and SQL – and high-performance Amazon AWS Databases
• Rapid debugging and bug squashing abilities
• Ready to take on critical production applications prepare them for scale with our rapid growth
• Familiarity with creating/building automated pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
• Working knowledge of JavaScript and other popular libraries and frameworks, including, but not limited to:
– Vue.js
– React
– Underscore.js/Lodash, jQuery
• Technology agnostic and pragmatic engineering approach focused on problem solving

This is permanent position with an annual salary of $160,000.00 – $175,000.00