Director of Production Engineering

> ROLE OVERVIEW

> CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Hire and build a globally-distributed DevOps/SRE engineering team.
• Own the reliability and infrastructure roadmap for our AWS-based production environment, including EKS, RDS, and related AWS services, ensuring scalability, high availability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead the organization's security operations (SecOps) practice, including vulnerability management, threat detection, incident response, and remediation, to proactively identify and resolve security issues before they impact customers.

> HARD REQUIREMENTS & SPECS

• 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or production infrastructure roles, including people management experience.
• Deep hands-on experience running production workloads on AWS, including EKS (Kubernetes), RDS, and other core AWS services (e.g., VPC, IAM, Lambda, S3).
• Demonstrated experience running security operations (SecOps) — vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation of production security issues.
• 5+ years of experience leveraging observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) to drive reliability, performance, and alerting improvements.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation.