Director of Infrastructure, Cloud & DevOps

Trupanion is seeking a strategic executionoriented Director of Infrastructure Cloud & DevOps to lead the next phase of our cloudfirst transformation while maintaining strong ownership of our hybrid infrastructure environment. This leader will evolve our Azurebased platform into a highly automated scalable and developercentric ecosystem while ensuring reliability security and performance across both cloud and onpremise infrastructure. 

This role partners closely with the VP of Technology Operations CIO and Engineering leadership. Operating at the intersection of Engineering and Technology Operations this leader will build and scale a highimpact DevOps and Platform Engineering capability while driving operational excellence across core infrastructureincluding data centers servers networking security and resiliency. The role establishes automation standardization and selfservice as core principles across both infrastructure and application delivery. 

This position is accountable for how Trupanion builds deploys and operates technology in a highly available realtime and regulated environment supporting critical pet health and claims systems. It ensures the stability and compliance of foundational infrastructure while accelerating modernization through DevOps practices directly influencing speedtomarket platform resilience and the reliability of the member experience. 

This position is open to candidates in the Seattle area. You will have a hybrid remote/in-office schedule where you will work from our casual pet-friendly office at least 3 days a week. 

Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the enterprise Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineering strategy 
• Lead and develop a world-class Infrastructure Cloud DevOps and SRE organization
• Accelerate cloud transformation through Azure Kubernetes automation and modern engineering practices
• Establish Infrastructure as Code CI/CD and self-service platforms as foundational capabilities. 
• Deliver highly available scalable secure and resilient hybrid infrastructure services
• Drive reliability engineering observability incident response and operational excellence programs
• Modernize legacy platforms and enable cloud-native architectures across the enterprise
• Embed security compliance governance and risk management into platform operations
• Strengthen disaster recovery business continuity and enterprise resiliency capabilities
• Optimize technology investments through FinOps vendor management and capacity planning 
• Partner with Engineering and Product leaders to improve developer experience and delivery velocity
• Influence executive technology strategy through metrics insights and transformation leadership 

Qualifications:

• 10 years of progressive leadership experience across Infrastructure Cloud DevOps Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering functions
• Proven experience leading enterprise cloud transformation infrastructure modernization and operational excellence initiatives within complex highly available environments
• Strong Azure experience preferred; equivalent AWS or GCP leadership experience with demonstrated ability to operationalize cloud platforms at scale
• Experience building and leading high-performing technical organizations including infrastructure cloud DevOps platform engineering or SRE teams
• Demonstrated success partnering with executive leadership to define technology strategy investment priorities and transformation roadmaps
• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience

Skills: 

• Proven success building and scaling Infrastructure Cloud DevOps Platform Engineering or SRE organizations
• Strong leadership experience managing enterprise infrastructure environments including cloud platforms data centers compute storage networking and identity services
• Deep understanding of enterprise networking including SD-WAN routing switching firewalls and hybrid connectivity architectures
• Expertise with Azure services Kubernetes (AKS preferred) containerization and cloud-native architecture patterns
• Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation frameworks CI/CD pipelines and platform engineering capabilities
• Experience establishing observability reliability engineering incident management and service resiliency programs
• Proven experience leading disaster recovery business continuity high availability and enterprise resiliency strategies
• Strong understanding of cloud governance security controls compliance frameworks identity management and risk management practices
• Experience driving patch management vulnerability remediation infrastructure lifecycle management and operational governance at scale
• Demonstrated success managing SOX controls audit readiness User Access Reviews (UAR) and regulated technology environments
• Experience with cloud cost optimization FinOps practices vendor management budgeting and capacity planning
• Excellent executive communication stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership skills

Compensation:

• The base pay range for this position is $150000 -$180000 on a full-time schedule.
• Along with base compensation Trupanion employees are currently eligible for monthly bonuses.
• We want all employees to be invested in Trupanions success so we grant Restricted Stock Units to all new team members. Our new hire grants vest over 4 years.

Additional Information :

Benefits and Perks:

• Full medical dental and vision benefits at no cost to the employee
• Four weeks of paid time off and 9 paid float holidays (you can decide which days are most important to you!)
• Five-week sabbatical after five years of employment
• Open casual pet-friendly and fun office environment
• Free medical health insurance for your pet (1 dog or cat)
• Paid time off to volunteer at nonprofit organizations
• Seattle Office Amenities: Free on-site gym free dog walking services for office pets during business hours free parking and paid ORCA cards.

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We will ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process perform essential job functions and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time