Key Facts

Remote From:

Full time

Expert & Leadership (>10 years)

English

Hard Skills

AWS Cloud Services CI/CD Terraform Kubernetes Argo CD DevSecOps Datadog Observability High Availability Design Root Cause Analysis AWS CloudFormation Continuous Delivery AWS Cost Management Event Marketing Access Controls Cloud-Native Applications Jenkins Finacle (Software) Budget Analysis Docker (Software) Git (Version Control System) SAFe Agile Governance Risk Management And Compliance Microsoft Azure Hybrid Cloud Computing Key Management Release Builds Reliability Availability And Maintainability (RAM) Analysis Vulnerability Management Cloud Computing Risk Governance Elasticsearch Business Continuity Differential Backup Disaster Recovery Test Automation Grafana Compliance Management Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Continuous Monitoring New Relic (SaaS) Linux Commands DevOps Incident Response Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) Kubernetes Cross-Functional Collaboration Culture Transformation Stakeholder Communications

Other Skills

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People Management
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Communication
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Leadership
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Strategic Thinking
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Team Building
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Team Performance Management
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Mentorship
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Problem Solving

Roles & Responsibilities

10+ years hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, cloud engineering and infrastructure.
5+ years in a Director or senior leadership role managing managers and large teams.
Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and modern toolchains: CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD), containers (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm), IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane), and monitoring/observability tooling.
Strong communication, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration; proven ability to drive cultural change and scale high-performance teams.

Requirements:

Own uptime, availability, scalability, and performance of all production systems; define and manage SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, and incident response; lead post-incident reviews and drive systemic reliability improvements; implement observability standards.
Own cloud infrastructure strategy (AWS, Azure, hybrid); lead infrastructure-as-code; ensure disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity tested and compliant; monitor and optimize cloud spend through cost governance and FinOps practices.
Enable CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release strategies; enable safe, frequent releases (blue/green, canary, feature flags); standardize DevOps tooling and platform capabilities; partner with Engineering to remove friction and increase delivery velocity.
Embed security into DevOps practices (DevSecOps); partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance on audits and certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI); ensure secrets management, access controls, and vulnerability remediation.

RxBenefits, Inc.

Pharmaceuticals

About RxBenefits, Inc.

Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Birmingham, AL with an office in Towson, MD, RxBenefits is the employee benefit industry’s first and only technology-enabled pharmacy benefits optimizer (PBO). Today, we employ more than 700 pharmacy pricing, data, and clinical experts to deliver prescription benefit savings to employee benefit consultants and their self-funded clients. RxBenefits exists to ensure EBC’s can offer mid-sized employers and their members an affordable pharmacy benefit solution combined with a Fortune 100 service experience. Our unique approach is enabled by our market-leading purchasing power, independent clinical solutions and high-touch superior service, allowing our clients to achieve their pharmacy program objectives. RxBenefits’ unwavering commitment to keeping pharmacy benefits affordable has created a better solution for the ever-changing market. RxBenefits provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.

Company type: SME

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Founded: 2018

Company size: 501 - 1000

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Job description

The Director of DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure is a senior leadership role that combines deep technical expertise in DevOps/Cloud/SRE practices with strategic business alignment, team leadership, and organizational transformation. This position has evolved significantly through 2026, with strong emphasis on cloud-native architectures, cost optimization, AI/ML infrastructure support, GitOps, security/governance at scale, and driving faster, more reliable software delivery while aligning with business outcomes. This role owns Cloud infrastructure, development environment strategy, platform reliability, CI/CD, cloud cost optimization and management, and operational excellence, enabling engineering teams to deliver software faster and more safely.

This leader will balance hands-on technical depth with strategic leadership, setting standards, tooling, and operating models while growing and mentoring a high-performing DevOps/SRE organization.

Essential Job Responsibilities Include:

Platform & Reliability

Own uptime, availability, scalability, and performance of all production systems.
Define and manage SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and incident response practices.
Lead post-incident reviews and drive systemic reliability improvements.
Implement observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing).

Cloud & Infrastructure

Own cloud infrastructure strategy (AWS, Azure, hybrid).
Lead infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, etc.).
Working with GRC, Ensure disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity plans are tested and compliant.
Monitor and optimize cloud spend through cost governance and FinOps practices.

DevOps, CI/CD & Engineering Enablement

Own CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release strategies.
Enable safe, frequent releases (blue/green, canary, feature flags).
Standardize DevOps tooling and platform capabilities across teams.
Partner with Engineering to remove friction and increase delivery velocity.

Monitoring, Alerting, and Event Management

Set plan and manage execution of dashboards, availability management and reporting.
Align with Product Engineering teams to define NFRs related to definition, instrumentation and logging

Security & Compliance

Embed security into DevOps practices (DevSecOps).
Partner with Security, Legal, and Compliance on audits and certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI, etc.).
Ensure secrets management, access controls, and vulnerability remediation.

Leadership & Strategy

Build and lead DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Engineering teams.
Define the DevOps operating model (centralized, embedded, hybrid).
Establish KPIs for reliability, deployment frequency, MTTR, and cost efficiency.
Partner closely with Engineering, Product, IT, Security, and Data teams.
Contribute to long-term technology and architecture roadmap.

These areas are separated into two teams with subordinate Managers:

Cloud/Infrastructure Operations
DevOps

Required Skills / Experience:

10+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, cloud engineering, and infrastructure.
5+ years as a Director in leadership/people management role (leading managers and/or large teams)
Deep expertise in modern tools and practices:
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
- Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm).
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane).
- Monitoring/Observability (DataDog, Sumo, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic).
- Scripting/automation (Python, Go, Bash).
Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum/SAFe methodologies.
Proven track record of building high-performance teams and driving cultural change.
Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Experience with large-scale, high-availability environments.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Terraform Associate, SRE-related).
Experience in regulated industries (healthcare) or with ML/AI infrastructure.
Background in cost management and cloud financial operations (FinOps).