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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Competitive annual base salary of $200,000–$230,000 USD.
• Full-time opportunity.