Legion
Director of Production Engineering
FRRemotePosted Today$220,000 – $265,000
Full TimeExecutiveRemoteFR
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Job Description
Director of Production Engineering Remote, United States About this Position Are you passionate about building the reliability, automation, and security foundations that let engineering teams move fas
Key Highlights
- Hire and build a globally-distributed DevOps/SRE engineering team. Recruit, mentor, and manage engineers, and foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Own the reliability and infrastructure roadmap for our AWS-based production environment, including EKS, RDS, and related AWS services, ensuring scalability, high availability, and cost efficiency.
- Lead the organization’s security operations (SecOps) practice, including vulnerability management, threat detection, incident response, and remediation, to proactively identify and resolve security issues before they impact customers.
- Define and drive engineering OKRs for infrastructure reliability, automation, and security, and track progress against measurable outcomes.
- Champion observability and alerting best practices (e.g., Datadog), including automating alert triage and response to reduce mean-time-to-resolution.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or production infrastructure roles, including people management experience.
- Deep hands-on experience running production workloads on AWS, including EKS (Kubernetes), RDS, and other core AWS services (e.g., VPC, IAM, Lambda, S3).
- Demonstrated experience running security operations (SecOps) — vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation of production security issues.
- 5+ years of experience leveraging observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) to drive reliability, performance, and alerting improvements.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD automation.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Python, or Bash, with day-to-day use of Git and test automation pipelines.
- Hands-on experience operating Linux/Unix production platforms (Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS).
- Proven track record partnering cross-functionally with engineering and IT teams to align on infrastructure, tooling, and security standards.
- Demonstrated experience leading incident management and on-call practices for high-availability production systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
- Experience with major cloud providers beyond AWS, such as Google Cloud Platform or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, CKS).
- Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA.
- 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes or other containerization/orchestration platforms at scale.
- Experience with Kubernetes-native delivery tooling, including Argo Workflows and Helm.
- 5+ years of experience leading teams in an agile/scrum environment.
- Experience building or scaling automated investigation and remediation pipelines for production error classes.
Skills & Technologies
AWSCI/CDKubernetesTerraformGoPythonBashGitLinuxUnixAgileScrum
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Executive
Salary Range
$220,000 – $265,000
Location
FR
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
Today
Country
FR