Director of Engineering, Platform & DevOps
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Job Location:
Denver, CO - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
5 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
The Opportunity
Were seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our Platform & DevOps organization. You will define the platform strategy and oversee a large team delivering secure reliable cost-efficient developer-friendly platforms: CI/CD cloud infrastructure Kubernetes/EKS observability and security-by-default. Youll set multi-quarter roadmaps and OKRs own budgets and vendor relationships and partner closely with Product Security Data and DevOps leadership to create paved roads that accelerate the entire engineering org.
Responsibilities
Org Leadership & Talent
Build and lead a large team organization (tech leads and engineers); attract develop and retain top talent.
Define career ladders succession plans and healthy on-call practices; ensure sustainable delivery and team health.
Champion a culture of ownership inclusion and continuous improvement (blameless postmortems strategic retention).
Strategy Portfolio & Governance
Own the Platform & DevOps strategy and multi-quarter roadmap; align to company goals and product timelines.
Define portfolio governance: intake prioritization and trade-offs across security reliability developer experience and cost.
Establish org-wide guardrails (golden paths reference architectures policy-as-code) enabling autonomy with compliance.
Platform Architecture & Governance
Set technical direction for build/release infrastructure automation Kubernetes/EKS runtime and observability.
Establish guardrails (golden paths templates policy-as-code org standards) to enable autonomy with compliance.
Drive cost performance and availability improvements; own platform budgets/forecasts and FinOps practices.
DevOps & Security
Standardize CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins or similar) artifact signing progressive delivery.
Enforce security-by-design: SCA/SAST/DAST in pipelines secrets management least-privilege IAM network segmentation runtime hardening.
Lead remediation SLAs with Security; maintain audit-ready evidence for enterprise standards and regulations.
Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability
Direct the design/operations of secure AWS platforms using IaC (Terraform/Pulumi) with drift detection and change controls.
Oversee EKS/Kubernetes multi-cluster/multi-region strategy capacity planning and resiliency patterns.
Define SLOs/error budgets and ensure effective incident response post-incident learning and reliability investments.
Communication Documentation & Change Management
Publish clear reference architectures runbooks and standards; keep documentation current and discoverable.
Communicate priorities trade-offs and status to execs and cross-functional partners; influence with data.
Requirements:
Bachelors in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent practical experience
12 years total experience in Platform/SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure including 5 years leading tech leads or multiple teams.
Proven track record delivering secure reliable cross-team platforms serving many product squads.
Experience with SOC2 compliance.
Strong Linux networking and troubleshooting fundamentals.
Proficiency in Python/Bash; automation around CI/CD infra and operations.
Deep AWS experience (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/DocumentDB/DynamoDB IAM VPC security groups) and Kubernetes in AWS.
IaC expertise (Terraform preferred; Pulumi a plus) with sound practices (modularity versioning policy checks drift detection).
Observability at scale (logs/metrics/traces alerting design SLOs) and incident management/command skills.
Security leadership across build/deploy/runtime; RBAC/ABAC and identity standards (OAuth SAML OIDC); secrets management.
Executive communication; portfolio management; budget/FinOps ownership.
Preferred
AWS DevOps Engineer Professional and/or AWS Solutions Architect (Assoc/Pro).
Experience with data/streaming platforms (e.g. Databricks/Kafka) or edge/low-latency systems.
Vendor consolidation and contract negotiation experience.
LG Ad Solutions provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race color ethnicity caste religion age sex (including pregnancy) national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal state or local laws.
We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability please send an email to to let us know the nature of your request.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
LG Ad Solutions combines cross-device TV and video inventory with actionable linear and streaming TV analytics into a simple, unified platform
