Director of Production Engineering

About this Position

Are you passionate about building the reliability automation and security foundations that let engineering teams move fast with confidence At Legion we are seeking a Director of Engineering DevOps & SRE to lead the teams responsible for the availability scalability and security of our production environment. Our production infrastructure runs on AWS leveraging services such as EKS RDS and a broad set of AWS-native technologies. You will partner closely with engineering and IT to build resilient systems drive operational excellence and ensure our platform meets the highest standards of security and compliance.

This is a hands-on leadership role where youll spend 20-30% of your time contributing directly to architecture tooling and incident response and the rest driving vision roadmap and cross-team execution.

Responsibilities

• Hire and build a globally-distributed DevOps/SRE engineering team. Recruit mentor and manage engineers and foster a culture of ownership collaboration and continuous improvement.
• 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 organizations security operations (SecOps) practice including vulnerability management threat detection incident response and remediation to proactively identify and resolve security issues before they impact customers.
• Define and drive engineering OKRs for infrastructure reliability automation and security and track progress against measurable outcomes.
• Champion observability and alerting best practices (e.g. Datadog) including automating alert triage and response to reduce mean-time-to-resolution.
• Solid understanding of agentic AI infrastructure and how AI agentic workflows apply to SDLC and DevOps processes (e.g. automated investigation remediation and PR-generation pipelines).
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code CI/CD and automation practices to increase engineering velocity and reduce operational toil.
• Work closely with engineering and IT teams to align on infrastructure standards access controls tooling and compliance requirements across the organization.
• Ensure the platform meets the highest standards of security compliance and data protection; implement and maintain robust security controls and audit-readiness.
• Lead and participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation working with SRE and development teams to meet and exceed availability goals.
• Stay current on cloud DevOps and security best practices and provide technical guidance and thought leadership to the broader engineering organization.

Required Qualifications

• 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.
• Proficiency in at least one of 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 to align on infrastructure tooling and security standards.
• Demonstrated experience leading incident management and on-call practices for high-availability production systems.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field required; Masters degree preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

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

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Salary Range: Base Salary Range $220000 - $265000 Bonus Stock Equity

At Legion we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. As a fully remote employer pay for positions is determined using local national and industry-specific survey data.

Our posted salary range is done so in good faith based on national data and may be refined for a candidates region/town/cost of living. We strive to make competitive offers that allow employees room for future growth. Salaries will be based on the applicants location level of experience education and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally we consider the external market rate the amount we have budgeted internally and the internal equity for the same position within the company.

Benefits include but are not limited to:

• $0 monthly premium and other flexible medical dental and vision plans effective on the first day of employment
• 401k plan
• Discretionary Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Monthly Lunch on Legion

ABOUT LEGION

Join Legions mission to turn hourly jobs into good jobs. Were a remote mission-driven team seeking exceptional talent to propel this vision. Embrace a culture thats collaborative fast-paced and entrepreneurial. With us youll grow your skills work closely with experienced executives and contribute significantly to our mission.

Legion Technologies delivers the industrys most innovative workforce management platform. It enables businesses to maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. The award-winning AI-driven Legion WFM platform is intelligent automated and employee-centric. Its proven to deliver 13x ROI through schedule optimization reduced attrition increased productivity and increased operational efficiency. Legion delivers cutting-edge technology in an easy-to-use platform and mobile app that employees love.

If youre ready to make an impact and grow your career Legion is where you belong. Join us in making hourly work rewarding and fulfilling.

BACKGROUND AND OPPORTUNITY

There are almost 75 million hourly workers in the United States representing more than half of the entire workforce. Historically managing hourly employees has been difficult due to high attrition (average of 60%) and high replacement costs (average of $3200 per employee in retail). The ongoing labor shortage and competition from the gig economy make it more difficult to attract and retain hourly employees. The top reasons hourly employees leave their jobs are a lack of schedule empowerment poor communication with employers and an inability to get paid early. Gen Z and the millennial workforce demand gig-like flexibility modern technology and compelling work options. Legions mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs serving the hourly workers who make up the majority of the US workforce. We believe in empowering employees and helping employers be efficient and innovative by enabling intelligent automation powered by Legions Workforce Management platform to optimize labor efficiency and enhance the employee experience simultaneously. Legion WFM was built for the cloud with AI at the core and designed to handle the complexity of modern businesses and meet the needs of todays hourly employees. Our team is comprised of dedicated individuals from all backgrounds and experiences globally distributed across all time zones.

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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Legion Technologies is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race color religion sex age disability marital status familial status sexual orientation pregnancy genetic information gender identity gender expression national origin ancestry citizenship status veteran status and any other legally protected status under federal state or local anti-discrimination laws.

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As a global employer Legion determines pay for positions using local national and industry-specific survey data. We evaluate external equity and the cost of labor/prevailing wage index in the relative marketplace for jobs directly comparable to jobs within our company. Our posted salary range is based on national data and may be refined for a candidates region/town/cost of living. For new hires we strive to make competitive offers allowing the new employee room for future growth. Salaries will be based on the applicants location level of experience education and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally we consider the external market rate the amount we have budgeted internally and internal equity within the company for the same position. An employee/candidate with a stronger skill set will receive higher pay.

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