DevOps Director

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a DevOps Director based in United States.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for the engineering platform that supports complex identity and access management engagements.
You will own environments, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, cloud platforms, and the secure operation of identity workloads.
The role combines strategic leadership with deep technical ownership across DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and security.
You will establish scalable engineering standards while ensuring reliability, observability, compliance, and operational readiness across client environments.
A major focus will be securing the delivery chain, including secrets, workload identities, certificates, artifacts, and privileged access.
You will lead a distributed platform engineering organization while partnering with architecture, delivery, and presales stakeholders.
This opportunity is ideal for a seasoned technology leader who can build high-performing teams while remaining technically credible in enterprise identity platforms.

Accountabilities:

• Own the platform and environment strategy across development, test, UAT, and production estates supporting identity and access management platforms, including refresh schedules and secure data masking or anonymization.
• Design, implement, and govern CI/CD pipelines for identity-platform artifacts, including configuration-as-code promotion, versioning, packaging, automated deployment, drift detection, and rollback.
• Lead infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform and Ansible, as well as containerized deployments across Kubernetes environments such as EKS, AKS, and GKE.
• Own secrets and non-human identity management, including vaulting, workload identity federation, service-account and API-key lifecycle management, and PKI and certificate lifecycle processes.
• Establish and validate highly available and resilient identity platforms through disaster recovery architecture, RPO/RTO validation, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Secure the software delivery lifecycle through SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, SBOM generation, artifact signing, and least-privilege access controls for repositories and pipelines.
• Build comprehensive observability for identity platforms, monitoring provisioning failures, aggregation SLAs, connector health, workflow queues, and other critical operational indicators.
• Integrate identity audit logs with client SIEM platforms and establish monitoring practices that support operational visibility and compliance.
• Lead and develop a distributed DevOps and platform engineering team across the United States and India, setting engineering standards and overseeing platform change governance.
• Own audit evidence and platform controls for client and internal audits while ensuring infrastructure aligns with applicable security and compliance frameworks.
• Partner with senior engineering leadership on architecture decisions that have platform-wide implications and contribute technical expertise to presales activities involving hosting, managed services, and platform modernization.
• Define platform upgrade, patching, and lifecycle strategies across client environments, including vendor release tracking, regression-risk assessment, and coordinated upgrade windows.
• Promote SRE practices, including SLI/SLO definition, error budgets, reliability testing, chaos engineering, and disaster recovery exercises.

Requirements:

• 10–15+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or related technical disciplines, including at least 5 years leading engineering teams and 4+ years supporting IAM, IGA, or comparable security platforms.
• Strong experience owning enterprise-scale CI/CD environments using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Advanced Infrastructure-as-Code experience with Terraform and Ansible, preferably within large-scale enterprise or cloud environments.
• Strong Kubernetes expertise and hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, including cloud IAM models and workload identity federation.
• Practical experience deploying, upgrading, patching, operating, and performance-tuning identity platforms such as SailPoint, Saviynt, Okta, or Entra ID.
• Deep knowledge of secrets management and machine/workload identity, including HashiCorp Vault or cloud KMS, service-account governance, PKI, and certificate lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of platform security controls, system hardening, vulnerability and patch management, CIS benchmarks, and compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or SOX ITGC.
• Experience designing infrastructure and delivery pipelines around core IGA capabilities such as provisioning, aggregation, certification, and federation.
• Strong SRE expertise, including SLI/SLO design, error budgets, disaster recovery testing, chaos engineering, and operational reliability practices.
• Experience with Zero Trust architecture, ZTNA, micro-segmentation, and modern identity security principles.
• Demonstrated experience operating hosted or managed identity services subject to contractual service-level agreements.
• Proven ability to lead distributed engineering teams across the United States and India and collaborate effectively across time zones.
• Strong client-facing communication and executive presence, with the ability to influence stakeholders and contribute at director level.
• Relevant certifications such as CKA/CKAD, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, CISSP, or CCSP are highly valued.
• Strong strategic thinking, hands-on technical judgment, problem-solving ability, and a commitment to building scalable engineering practices.

Benefits:

• Competitive annual base salary of $200,000–$230,000 USD .
• Full-time opportunity with a remote U.S. work environment.
• Leadership role with significant influence over DevOps, cloud infrastructure, security, and identity-platform strategy.
• Opportunity to lead and develop a distributed engineering organization.
• Exposure to enterprise cybersecurity, IAM/IGA, cloud, AI, and advanced technology initiatives.
• Culture focused on innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, and professional growth.
• Inclusive workplace committed to diversity and equal opportunity.

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We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

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