The Associate Director, Infrastructure & DevOps Engineering is responsible for leading the execution, implementation, operational stability, resilience, automation, and cost optimization of Digital infrastructure and DevOps foundations across all the company's Digital assets. This role acts as the Digital execution owner for infrastructure services, cloud environments, DevOps enablement, automation, observability foundations, infrastructure reliability, operational readiness, and infrastructure cost management. The role ensures that Digital infrastructure and platform services are implemented, maintained, and operated in alignment with the company's enterprise cloud guidelines, cybersecurity requirements, architecture standards, compliance policies, and governance frameworks. This role is accountable for translating enterprise cloud and infrastructure guidelines into practical execution across Digital environments, vendors, infrastructure services, DevOps tooling, deployment foundations, production readiness, and platform operations.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation and operationalization of Digital infrastructure and platform services across all Digital assets and environments.
- Ensure Digital workloads are implemented in line with approved company technology standards, security policies, compliance requirements, and operational controls.
- Drive consistency across Digital environments, including development, SIT, UAT, staging, pre-production, production, and hotfix environments.
- Lead the execution of DevOps engineering practices across Digital infrastructure and platform services.
- Ensure Digital environments support faster, safer, and more predictable delivery without compromising compliance, security, or operational stability.
- Act as the Digital execution owner for infrastructure operations, ensuring vendors operate under a consistent, controlled, and measurable model.
- Partner with ICC and operations teams to ensure infrastructure-related production issues are visible, actionable, and resolved with the right ownership.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience with cloud engineering (Azure preferred).
- Understanding of IaC, monitoring and cloud security fundamentals.
- Ability to collaborate with DevSecOps and cyber stakeholders.
