Director, DevOps and Mission Infrastructure

About the role

Vantor is seeking a Director of DevOps & Infrastructure to lead the modernization, standardization, and operational reliability of the platforms powering our mission systems and customer deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own DevOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, release engineering, and platform operations across commercial, sovereign, and customer-managed environments.
• Scale cloud and on-prem deployment platforms while building the engineering rigor, automation, and accountability needed to reduce operational chaos and improve delivery reliability.
• Define Vantor’s long-term platform engineering strategy, balancing centralized shared services with embedded domain support teams.
• Help create the operational foundation that enables autonomous systems, AI-powered mission planning, sovereign intelligence platforms, and real-time global situational awareness.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or cloud operations.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams or technical organizations.
• Strong background in AWS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and deployment orchestration.
• Proven success modernizing fragmented DevOps or platform engineering ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, operational resiliency, observability, and release engineering.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, intelligence, or mission-critical operational systems.
• Experience with sovereign cloud, disconnected operations, or customer-managed deployments.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted DevOps, AIOps, or autonomous operational tooling.
• Experience defining centralized vs distributed platform engineering operating models.
• Familiarity with geospatial intelligence, satellite operations, or mission planning systems.
• Background from organizations such as Palantir, defense primes, or cloud-native platform companies.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust and modern DevSecOps practices.

Technologies & Domains of Interest

• Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, OpenShift
• Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation
• AWS, Azure, sovereign cloud, hybrid cloud
• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD
• Observability and monitoring platforms
• Infrastructure security and vulnerability management
• Platform engineering and SRE practices
• AI-assisted software operations and AIOps platforms
• Distributed systems and mission-critical operational environments

Why This Role Matters

Vantor is building the infrastructure backbone for the next generation of spatial intelligence systems. This role will directly shape how mission-critical software platforms are deployed, secured, automated, and operated across global commercial and defense missions.

Work Environment

• Denver metro area preferred
• In-office collaboration expected 3–5 days per week

Pay Transparency

To support pay transparency, Vantor includes salary ranges in all U.S. job postings. Starting pay for this role will fall within the listed range and will be based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, and market conditions.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
• Application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
• EEO Policy: Vantor is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace.