Director of Production Engineering

About This Opportunity

We are representing a fast-growing SaaS organization seeking a Director of Production Engineering to lead DevOps, SRE, and security operations for their AWS-based production environment. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll spend 20-30% of your time directly contributing to architecture, tooling, and incident response, while driving vision, roadmap, and cross-team execution.

Our client operates a fully remote, globally-distributed engineering organization. You will build and lead teams responsible for the availability, scalability, and security of production systems running on AWS services including EKS, RDS, and the broader AWS ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and manage a globally-distributed DevOps/SRE engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Own the reliability and infrastructure roadmap for AWS-based production environments, ensuring scalability, high availability, and cost efficiency
• Lead security operations (SecOps) including vulnerability management, threat detection, incident response, and remediation
• Define and drive engineering OKRs for infrastructure reliability, automation, and security with measurable outcomes
• Champion observability and alerting best practices using platforms like Datadog, automating alert triage and response
• Apply understanding of agentic AI infrastructure and how AI workflows enhance SDLC and DevOps processes
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and automation practices to increase velocity and reduce operational toil
• Partner with engineering and IT teams to align on infrastructure standards, access controls, and compliance requirements
• Ensure platform meets security, compliance, and data protection standards with robust controls and audit-readiness
• Lead and participate in Incident Management on-call rotation to meet and exceed availability goals
• Provide technical guidance and thought leadership on cloud, DevOps, and security best practices

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or production infrastructure roles, including people management
• Deep hands-on experience running production workloads on AWS, including EKS (Kubernetes), RDS, and core services (VPC, IAM, Lambda, S3)
• Demonstrated experience running security operations (SecOps) — vulnerability management, incident response, and production security remediation
• 5+ years leveraging observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) to drive reliability and performance improvements
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Bash, with day-to-day use of Git and test automation pipelines
• Hands-on experience operating Linux/Unix production platforms (Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS)
• Proven track record partnering cross-functionally with engineering and IT teams
• Demonstrated experience leading incident management and on-call practices for high-availability systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required; Master's degree preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Relevant security certifications (CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, CKS)
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA
• 3+ years with Kubernetes or containerization/orchestration platforms at scale
• Experience with Kubernetes-native delivery tooling including Argo Workflows and Helm
• 5+ years leading teams in an agile/scrum environment
• Experience building automated investigation and remediation pipelines for production error classes

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your qualifications and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client directly — all communication and coordination will flow through Get A Job.ai to ensure the best experience for you and proper representation of your candidacy.

Pay

This is a fully remote position open to candidates anywhere in the world. Pay details will be discussed during the screening process based on your location, experience, and qualifications.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive recruitment process. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.