Sr Director, DevOps & AppSec

Job summary

Lead the global DevOps function, owning strategy, execution, and daily operations of platforms, pipelines, and tooling for engineering and data organizations. This is a player-coach role leading a senior team with global responsibility across cloud footprint, CI/CD, observability, and developer experience.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps, with 8+ years in management and experience leading distributed or global teams.
• Track record of building and operating modern cloud platforms at scale, with AWS strongly preferred; multi-cloud or hybrid experience is a plus.
• Deep, current technical fluency in CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent), container orchestration (Kubernetes or equivalent), observability, and secrets management.
• Strong DevSecOps instincts, with experience shipping security improvements without hindering engineering velocity.
• Experience owning compliance work end-to-end (SOC 2, PCI, GDPR, HIPAA, or similar) in partnership with Security and Audit.
• Demonstrated ability to design for leverage: lean teams, self-service platforms, and clear demand management.
• Experience in a data, analytics, or insights business (nice to have).
• Prior experience scaling a DevOps team from single digits into the 15–30 range (nice to have).

Responsibilities

• Set and execute DevOps and platform engineering strategy across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, secrets, and developer self-service.
• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of DevOps engineers, including hiring, leveling, performance management, and succession planning.
• Operate as a player-coach, contributing to architecture, code reviews, and incident response.
• Partner with Security, Data, Product Engineering, and Architecture to embed security and compliance into the SDLC (DevSecOps).
• Own cloud cost (FinOps) posture for platforms and drive continuous improvement.
• Make and defend build-vs-buy decisions across the DevOps tooling stack and manage key vendor relationships.
• Integrate AI into engineering workflows to produce real leverage.

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