Director, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

Job Description

• Lead the Infrastructure Engineering team, which provides compute as a service via managed Kubernetes, as well as a unified and integrated API gateway. This team manages hundreds of K8s clusters across multiple cloud providers. • Define the long-term strategy for Infrastructure Engineering, including new areas for greenfield exploration such as Infrastructure Resource Lifecycle Management, and managed-DBs as a service, including deployment pipelines and observability. • Speak at industry events, representing Saviynt's Developer Platforms group and our strategy for approaching Developer Experience and Platform Engineering. • Act as a liaison to client and partner engineering teams to share the Developer Platforms mission, vision and roadmap • Gather input on client needs and proposed integration points with technical services which are delivered by our partner organizations • Inspire and encourage our internal customer teams to contribute to Developer Platforms via an internal open source and open contribution model • Review and provide feedback on features, technology, architecture, designs, time & budget estimates, and test strategies • Manage projects risks & engage in creative problem solving • Develop and evolve engineering and business processes to optimize team efficiency • Partner with other teams across Saviynt on achieving common goals

Qualifications

• Deep customer empathy for the Developer as our primary customer stakeholder • Well versed with distributed computing principles and approaches, including Kubernetes • Proven experience building reliable, high-scale, cost-efficient cloud services. • Experience with hands-on DevOps, DevSecops and CI/CD practice on large scale cloud services • Well versed in writing optimized code and architectural patterns for optimization • Strong verbal and written communication skills • 12+ years of hands-on development experience • 10+ years of experience leading Development Teams • 5+ years of experience as a manager of managers and Director-level folks • A commitment to building exceptional, diverse and high-performing teams • Strong persuasion and influence skills • Bachelors in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

Benefits

• Define the long-term strategy for Infrastructure Engineering, including new areas for greenfield exploration such as Infrastructure Resource Lifecycle Management, and managed-DBs as a service, including deployment pipelines and observability. • Speak at industry events, representing Saviynt's Developer Platforms group and our strategy for approaching Developer Experience and Platform Engineering. • Act as a liaison to client and partner engineering teams to share the Developer Platforms mission, vision and roadmap