Director of DevOps & Platform Engineering

Fortis; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortis is a leading FinTech payments innovator focused on DevOps, platform engineering, and scalable cloud infrastructure. We seek a senior leader to steer the DevOps and platform engineering function, shaping pipelines, IaC, cloud estate, and self-service tooling across multiple brands.

Reporting to the VP of AI Platform Operations, you will grow a small engineering team, manage contract capacity, and drive governance, cost optimization, and secure change controls in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering; 3+ years leading engineers
• Hands-on AWS at scale (IAM, VPC, networking, ECS/Lambda/S3) and Terraform-based IaC
• Engineering governance with prioritization, incident/postmortem discipline, on-call rotation
• Change control in a regulated environment with second-approver requirements
• Strong written and spoken communication to executives and cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Lead the DevOps and platform engineering function: pipelines, IaC, cloud estate, self-service tooling
• Lead a small team and grow capability through automation and partner resources
• Establish and enforce platform standards, IaC discipline, least-privilege access, and environment consistency
• Partner with security, corporate IT, and TPM on guardrails and program cadence
• Oversee GitLab consolidation and platform migration efforts and deployment infrastructure

Skills

DevOps leadership

AWS at scale

Terraform IaC

Engineering governance

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

Job description

Fortis is a leading FinTech payments innovator focused on DevOps, platform engineering, and scalable cloud infrastructure. We seek a senior leader to steer the DevOps and platform engineering function, shaping pipelines, IaC, cloud estate, and self-service tooling across multiple brands.

Reporting to the VP of AI Platform Operations, you will grow a small engineering team, manage contract capacity, and drive governance, cost optimization, and secure change controls in a regulated environment.