Director of Production Reliability & SRE

Coinscapture; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Legion is seeking a Director of Production Engineering to lead reliability, automation, and security foundations for our AWS-based production environment. This is a hands-on leadership role with ~20-30% code and architecture work, while the remainder focuses on vision, roadmap, and cross-team execution.

You will hire and mentor a globally distributed DevOps/SRE team, own the infrastructure roadmap (EKS, RDS, AWS services), lead SecOps, define OKRs, and champion observability and IaC to scale our

Qualifications

• 8–12 years in DevOps, SRE, or production infra with people mgmt experience.
• Extensive hands-on AWS experience: EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3.
• 5+ years using observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• 5+ years leading incident management and on-call practices.

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and lead a globally distributed DevOps/SRE team.
• Own the reliability and infrastructure roadmap for the AWS-based production environment (EKS, RDS, AWS services).
• Lead the organization's SecOps practice: vulnerability management, incident response, remediation.
• Define and drive engineering OKRs for infra reliability, automation, and security.
• Champion observability and alerting practices (Datadog) and automate triage and response.
• Drive Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and automation to increase velocity.
• Collaborate with engineering and IT to align standards and compliance.
• Lead on-call rotation and incident management to meet availability goals.

Skills

DevOps Leadership

SRE

AWS

Kubernetes

SecurityOps

Observability

IaC/Automation

CI/CD

Go/Python/Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

CloudFormation

Argo Workflows

Helm

Git

Job description

Legion is seeking a Director of Production Engineering to lead reliability, automation, and security foundations for our AWS-based production environment. This is a hands-on leadership role with ~20-30% code and architecture work, while the remainder focuses on vision, roadmap, and cross-team execution.

You will hire and mentor a globally distributed DevOps/SRE team, own the infrastructure roadmap (EKS, RDS, AWS services), lead SecOps, define OKRs, and champion observability and IaC to scale our