Director of Platform Engineering | Remote

Crossing Hurdles; United States; Remote; USD 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Director of Infrastructure Engineering to lead a remote, full-time team driving multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP. The role emphasizes building IaC with Terraform, maturing CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing observability and reliability across services.

You'll guide a high-performing engineering group, shape architecture for resilience, and implement incident response and disaster recovery practices, all within a remote, 10-40 hours/week commitment.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production infrastructure.
• Experience leading engineering teams in high-growth environments.
• Deep expertise in AWS, GCP, or multi-cloud production environments.
• Proficient with Terraform, Kubernetes, containers, and modern CI/CD platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
• Lead and grow an Infrastructure/Platform Engineering team.
• Build infrastructure as code using Terraform for reproducible environments.
• Design and improve CI/CD systems for reliable software delivery.
• Build observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Define and drive reliability practices including incident response and disaster recovery.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Containers

Observability

Disaster recovery

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Position: Director of Infrastructure Engineering

Type: Full-time

Compensation: $350K - $500K/yr

Location: Remote

Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week

Role Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP.


• Lead and grow a high-performing Infrastructure/Platform Engineering team.


• Build infrastructure as code using Terraform for reproducible environments.


• Design and improve CI/CD systems for reliable software delivery.


• Build observability across metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.


• Define and drive reliability practices including incident response and disaster recovery.

Requirements

• Have strong relevant experience in building and operating production infrastructure.


• Leading engineering teams in high-growth environments.


• Deep expertise with AWS, GCP, or multi-cloud production environments.


• Strong experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, containers, and modern CI/CD platforms.


• Proven experience building highly available, observable, and resilient production systems.