Infrastructure Engineering Director

About the role

This role is a hands-on technical leadership position within FanDuel's infrastructure engineering team. The incumbent will be responsible for establishing operational excellence, standardization, and reliability across compute, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Establishing infrastructure strategy and standards across cloud provisioning, observability, disaster recovery, and cost governance.
• Standardizing processes and practices to make operations safer and faster.
• Building and scaling the infrastructure engineering team with operational rigor and discipline.
• Hiring for people who care about documentation, reliability, and unglamorous work.
• Creating career paths and developing infrastructure engineers into senior and leadership roles.
• Owning disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, testing, and organizational readiness.
• Making clear tradeoffs between cost optimization and reliability; these aren't opposing goals but require transparency.
• Designing and evolving cloud infrastructure for resilience, cost, and operational clarity.
• Managing vendor relationships, cloud costs, and capacity planning.
• Partnering closely with Platform Engineering leadership and product teams to ensure our foundation supports what they need to build.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organizations.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, and scaling.
• Strong hands-on understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure: VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS, cost management, and operating hybrid AWS environments including Outposts.
• Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or infrastructure strategy across teams, with the ability to influence technical direction and set standards.
• Proven ability to establish operational discipline: documented runbooks, change management processes, incident response frameworks, and blameless post-mortem culture.
• Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery, RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing, and resilience improvements across production systems.
• Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for infrastructure services using user-centric and business-aligned metrics.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in at least one modern programming language. Ability to build scalable tooling and automation.
• Track record of driving large-scale operational improvements through automation, reducing organizational toil, and preventing recurring classes of issues.
• Understanding of cloud cost drivers and the ability to optimize spend without sacrificing reliability, resilience, or team velocity.
• Strong analytical and communication skills. Ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders. Can translate infrastructure constraints into business and customer impact.
• A mindset of ownership, continuous improvement, and long-term platform sustainability. You know when standards are working and when they need to change.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.

Skills

• Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organizations.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, and scaling.
• Strong hands-on understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure: VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS, cost management, and operating hybrid AWS environments including Outposts.
• Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or infrastructure strategy across teams, with the ability to influence technical direction and set standards.
• Proven ability to establish operational discipline: documented runbooks, change management processes, incident response frameworks, and blameless post-mortem culture.
• Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery, RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing, and resilience improvements across production systems.
• Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for infrastructure services using user-centric and business-aligned metrics.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in at least one modern programming language. Ability to build scalable tooling and automation.
• Track record of driving large-scale operational improvements through automation, reducing organizational toil, and preventing recurring classes of issues.
• Understanding of cloud cost drivers and the ability to optimize spend without sacrificing reliability, resilience, or team velocity.
• Strong analytical and communication skills. Ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders. Can translate infrastructure constraints into business and customer impact.
• A mindset of ownership, continuous improvement, and long-term platform sustainability. You know when standards are working and when they need to change.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Disability insurance.
• A 401(k) matching program.
• Commuter benefits.
• Pet insurance.

Pay

The applicable salary range for this position is $197,000 - 246,000 USD, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand.

Schedule

Full-time position.