Director – AWS Infrastructure, DevOps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee the strategy, architecture, implementation, administration, and daily operations of AWS infrastructure and cloud services.

• Create, develop, and sustain secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure and environments.

• Implement and manage infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, logging, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.

• Establish and enforce cloud architecture standards encompassing networking, compute, storage, databases, identity, and access management.

• Drive infrastructure modernization, automation, and optimization initiatives.

• Design, construct, and enhance CI/CD pipelines that support application development, testing, security scanning, and production deployment.

• Set and implement DevOps standards, tools, processes, and engineering practices across development teams.

• Manage release and deployment processes across development, staging, and production environments, including automation, coordination, validation, and rollback procedures.

• Oversee administration, governance, and lifecycle management of the SaaS technology ecosystem.

• Handle SaaS provisioning, onboarding/offboarding, roles, permissions, access reviews, and licenses.

• Supervise cloud infrastructure cost monitoring, forecasting, utilization, and optimization.

• Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to implement infrastructure and DevOps security controls.

• Maintain controls for IAM, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, logging, and infrastructure security.

• Support security audits, compliance assessments, customer security reviews, and regulatory requirements.

• Monitor environments, troubleshoot production and deployment issues, and lead root-cause analysis and remediation efforts.

• Assess infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and operational practices to enhance reliability, security, developer experience, and efficiency.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and IT teams to ensure reliable, secure, and efficient technology services.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevOps, or related technology fields, with proven ownership of production environments.

• Practical experience in designing, implementing, and managing AWS cloud infrastructure and services.

• Proficient in scripting and automation using Python or TypeScript.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Background in designing and managing modern CI/CD pipelines and Git-based development workflows.

• Experience in release and deployment management, encompassing deployment automation, production releases, rollback procedures, and troubleshooting.

• Knowledge of cloud security, IAM, networking, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability management, and audit controls.

• Experience in SaaS administration, user provisioning, access management, and lifecycle management.

• Proficient in cloud infrastructure cost management and optimization.

• Capability to design, implement, operate, and troubleshoot production systems.

• Willingness to support off-business hours deployments and releases as needed.

• AWS certification such as AWS Solutions Architect or AWS DevOps Engineer is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical

• Dental

• 401(k)

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible time off

• Fully remote work environment

• Flexible benefits

• Personal support

• Tailored learning and development opportunities