Remote Executive Director, DevOps & Platform Engineering

FinOps Weekly

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

23 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible remote work

Job summary

FinOps Weekly is seeking an Executive Director of DevOps & Platform Engineering to shape and operationalize a high-performance engineering platform. You will lead DevOps, platform tooling, and AI-enabled workflows, driving cost optimization and reliability at scale.

You will partner with IT Operations and Engineering leadership to set standards, improve developer experience, and align platform strategy with enterprise goals. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

Senior-level leadership experience in DevOps, platform engineering or infrastructure engineering with a builder-operator mindset.
Experience owning and scaling CI/CD platforms, infrastructure automation, and developer tooling ecosystems.
Proven ability to define and operationalize engineering metrics, telemetry, and performance scorecards.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the DevOps strategy, including platform reliability and release enablement.
Lead development tooling strategy and governance (CI/CD toolchains, internal productivity tools).
Define engineering performance metrics and telemetry (DORA, SLOs, SLAs).
Drive FinOps and cloud cost optimization initiatives across engineering teams.
Build and scale observability dashboards for cost, performance, and delivery health.
Improve developer experience through automation and self-service workflows.