Remote Director of DevOps & Cloud Platform Lead

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly work

Leadership opportunity

Automation & CI/CD focus

Security & compliance emphasis

Mentoring and team development

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Director of DevOps to lead our DevOps function in a remote-capable role. The engineer will drive scalable cloud infrastructure, secure release practices, and operational excellence across a modern software environment.

You will mentor a growing team while advancing automation and compliant operations throughout the software lifecycle. The role emphasizes partnership with engineering and security, a focus on GitOps, SRE principles, and continuous improvement to ensure fast,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering
• 3+ years in leadership
• Proven expertise with AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code, including Terraform and CloudFormation
• Strong background in networking, security, and monitoring tools
• Experience with microservices, containers, and distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with GitOps, DevSecOps, and SRE principles
• Excellent leadership and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the DevOps roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers and automation specialists.
• Design and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across platforms like AWS.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for rapid software releases.
• Ensure integration of security best practices into the software lifecycle.
• Define SLAs and manage incident recovery and performance tuning.
• Follow and uphold information security policies.

Skills

Leadership

10+ years DevOps

SRE/DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

IaC

Security practices

Networking

Monitoring

GitOps

DevSecOps

Leadership & comms

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Director of DevOps to lead our DevOps function in a remote-capable role. The engineer will drive scalable cloud infrastructure, secure release practices, and operational excellence across a modern software environment.

You will mentor a growing team while advancing automation and compliant operations throughout the software lifecycle. The role emphasizes partnership with engineering and security, a focus on GitOps, SRE principles, and continuous improvement to ensure fast,