Key skills
AWSDevOps/SRE managementInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelinesObservability toolsGitLabTerraformSoftware engineeringAWS certificationscommunicationSparkEKSIAMSageMakerIstioSDLCCI/CDLeadershipStrategic PlanningMentoringCommunication
About this role
Empower is a company focused on transforming financial lives by providing a flexible work environment and opportunities for internal mobility. The Director of DevOps will lead the adoption of infrastructure-as-code pipelines and enhance the EKS-based microservice platform while managing high-performing engineering teams to improve system scalability and security.
Responsibilities:
- Build, grow, and manage high-performing engineering teams, and participate in roadmaps, vision, and strategic planning
- Partner with developers, quality engineers, security engineers, data engineers, DBAs, and product managers to deliver Infrastructure, Security, and Operation as Code
- Lead adoption and expansion of CI/CD and IaC pipelines to support secure, scalable application delivery
- Define and instrument end to end observability monitors, alerts and practices
- Develop recovery and incident run books
- Define, validate and instrument SLO and SLI across platform services
- Provide engineering leadership and best practices including code reviews and platform and SDLC practices
- Foster strong working relationships across Engineering and the broader business
- Communicate effectively with strong verbal and written skills, keeping leadership informed and helping create organizational goals
- Remove technical obstacles, enhance team processes, and drive resolutions for complex issues
- Mentor, coach, and support individuals through 1:1s and career development
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent STEM, from an accredited college or university
- 10+ years of AWS experience, including designing, building, and operating large-scale applications
- 6+ years of experience managing a DevOps/SRE or Engineering organization, with a passion for mentoring and leading engineers
- Expertise building fully automated infrastructure, preferably using AWS, EKS, GitLab, and Terraform
- Experience setting up observability tools (SRE) and driving adoption with development teams
- Software engineering background
- Experience working with, operating, and deploying CI/CD and IaC pipelines
- Expertise with Istio and AWS IAM
- Experience supporting data platforms and tools such as Spark, EMR, and SageMaker
- Ability to work cooperatively and effectively across organizations and all levels of leadership
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- AWS certifications
- Master's degree from an accredited college or university
- A background in retirement, finance, or the insurance industry
- AWS Solutions or Developer Certification