Director of Engineering, Cloud & Reliability

About the role

The Director of Engineering - Cloud & Reliability at Boulevard is responsible for leading the infrastructure transformation and establishing industry-leading reliability practices. This role will drive the technical strategy for our cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and platform capabilities, ensuring they support rapid growth and meet the diverse needs of our customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration from current infrastructure to Amazon EKS, implementing container orchestration and services-ready architecture.
• Design and implement multi-region disaster recovery with automated failover, load balancing, and regular testing procedures.
• Modernize deployment pipelines to support faster, more reliable deployments.
• Enhance comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and incident response using DataDog, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution.
• Establish enterprise-grade security practices, compliance frameworks, and automation to support Data team's governance requirements.
• Scale Terraform usage, implement GitOps practices, and create self-service infrastructure capabilities.
• Address current RDS limitations and implement scalable database architecture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, with 5+ years leading infrastructure teams of 5-15 engineers.
• Deep experience with AWS services including EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
• Proven experience migrating applications to Kubernetes/EKS and implementing container-based architectures.
• Strong background in security practices, compliance frameworks (PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2), and security automation.
• Expertise with monitoring and observability tools (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana) and implementing comprehensive alerting strategies.
• Proven ability to work with Product Engineering, Data Engineering, and Platform Services teams to enable their technical initiatives.

Qualifications

• Technical leadership in defining and executing the long-term infrastructure and security strategy.
• Team building and mentoring a team of infrastructure and reliability engineers.
• Partnering closely with Product, Services, and Data Engineering teams to provide the infrastructure foundation for their initiatives.
• Driving architectural decisions for cloud infrastructure, security systems, and operational practices.
• Establishing monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices that ensure high availability and performance.
• Ensuring compliance with industry standards (PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2) and implementing security controls.

Skills

• Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineering
• Container Orchestration and Kubernetes
• DevOps Practices and CI/CD Pipelines
• Monitoring and Observability Tools (DataDog)
• Security Practices and Compliance Frameworks
• Infrastructure Automation and Terraform

Benefits

• 401(k) match
• Dental, Medical, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Fully remote work option
• Work-from-home stipend
• Family planning resources and specialized support programs
• Equity
• Learning and Development program
• Official LinkedIn page for updates

Pay

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $209,500 - $270,000 per year. Final compensation will vary based on a variety of factors including applicable experience, location, and final leveling.

Schedule

This role is fully remote, allowing you to choose where you want to work.