Director, Production and Infrastructure Engineering

The role

You will build and lead the Production and Infrastructure Engineering organization. You will manage engineers across DevOps, SRE, DevEx, MLOps, and a dedicated support team.

What you will do

• Own hiring, onboarding, one-on-ones, career development, and performance management.
• Set shared priorities and responsibilities across infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, testing, and application delivery.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, capacity planning, and delivery reviews.
• Participate in design and code reviews and technical investigations.
• Make reliability, release and change management, QA, and E2E validation part of the delivery process.
• Lead improvements to cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability, on-call readiness, and incident response.
• Manage a cross-functional team of full-stack engineers, DevOps engineers, and a dedicated TPM.
• Work with Product, Platform, Applied AI, and Security/GRC on delivery priorities and operational readiness.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 5+ years of direct engineering people management, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Experience leading teams with different technical specialties and seniority levels.
• Strong technical foundation in at least one major cloud platform, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Practical experience in Kubernetes, containers, networking, identity, and production operations.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Git-based development workflows, GitOps, and CI/CD.
• Strong background building and shipping production software, with working depth across backend services, APIs, data stores, and full-stack integration.
• Experience leading production delivery and support, including reliability, incident response, release and change management, and collaboration on automated testing and E2E readiness.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity, learn unfamiliar technical domains, and make timely decisions.
• Experience managing technical commitments and escalations with internal or external customers.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with MLOps, model serving, or operating AI/ML and agent workloads
• Experience supporting customer-managed environments, multiple cloud providers, or enterprise deployments with complex integration needs
• Experience in national security, federal, regulated, or other security-sensitive environments
• Experience scaling an engineering organization or building a new team or operating function in a fast-changing company

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement
• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind
• Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux

Before you apply

• Certain national security assignments may require U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance

About the company

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. Trase Systems is a company within the firm that provides an end-to-end solution for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise.