Remote Director of DevOps & Cloud Transformation

Acxiom; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Acxiom seeks an experienced Director of DevOps to lead engineering in modernizing cloud architectures and accelerating automation. The role reports to the Senior VP of Product Automation and requires hands-on leadership bridging strategy with execution across big data and cloud migrations.

You will guide DevOps and automation teams, shape talent strategy, and drive standardized tooling and best practices across multiple product teams to ensure scalable, secure deployments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading and scaling DevOps teams (15+ engineers).
• Proven track record of enterprise cloud migrations and modernization.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD tooling.
• Strong communication and stakeholder influence across global teams.
• Experience with big data processing and multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor DevOps and automation teams (20-40 engineers).
• Drive CI/CD, IaC, containerization and orchestration strategies.
• Oversee multi-cloud infra management and cost optimization.
• Architect cloud migration plans for legacy data centers.
• Establish KPIs and governance for delivery and reliability.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Communication

Problem solving

DevOps expertise

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Cloud migrations

Multi-cloud

Snowflake/Databricks

Security practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Advanced degree or cloud/kubernetes certifications

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Nexus

Job description

Acxiom seeks an experienced Director of DevOps to lead engineering in modernizing cloud architectures and accelerating automation. The role reports to the Senior VP of Product Automation and requires hands-on leadership bridging strategy with execution across big data and cloud migrations.

You will guide DevOps and automation teams, shape talent strategy, and drive standardized tooling and best practices across multiple product teams to ensure scalable, secure deployments.