Infrastructure Engineering Director

The role

You will own the foundational cloud and outpost-based infrastructure layer. You will establish operational excellence, standardization, and reliability across compute, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud provisioning.

What you will do

• Establishing infrastructure strategy and standards across cloud provisioning, observability, disaster recovery, and cost governance.
• Building and scaling the infrastructure engineering team.
• Owning disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, testing, and organizational readiness.
• Establishing SLOs/SLIs for foundational infrastructure services.
• Designing and evolving cloud infrastructure for resilience, cost, and operational clarity.
• Setting standards for operational discipline including change management, incident response, and post-mortems.
• Managing vendor relationships, cloud costs, and capacity planning.
• Leading complex production incident response across infrastructure domains.
• Stewarding infrastructure platforms operating under strict regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Partnering with engineering and product leadership to influence platform direction and roadmap.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organizations.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, and scaling.
• Strong hands-on understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure: VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS, cost management, and operating hybrid AWS environments including Outposts.
• Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or infrastructure strategy across teams.
• Proven ability to establish operational discipline: documented runbooks, change management processes, incident response frameworks, and blameless post-mortem culture.
• Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery, RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing, and resilience improvements across production systems.
• Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for infrastructure services.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in at least one modern programming language.
• Track record of driving large-scale operational improvements through automation.
• Understanding of cloud cost drivers and the ability to optimize spend.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• A mindset of ownership, continuous improvement, and long-term platform sustainability.

Nice to have

• Experience with service mesh platforms (Kong Mesh, Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy-based systems).
• Hands-on experience managing AWS Outposts or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Experience operating infrastructure in regulated industries.
• CNCF Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD).
• Familiarity with observability platforms like Datadog, Prometheus, and tracing systems.

Benefits

• Health plans including fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
• Generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave).
• Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities.
• 401k with up to a 5% match.
• Commuter benefits.
• Pet insurance.
• Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• Short-term or long-term incentive compensation including cash bonuses and stock program participation.
• Paid personal time off.
• 14 paid company holidays.

About the company

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. It consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering and operates FanDuel TV.