Director of Engineering, Platform & DevOps

LG Ads
Denver
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 12+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Strategic thinking","Collaboration","Mentoring"]

Lead the Platform & DevOps organization to define the platform strategy, manage a large engineering team, and deliver secure, reliable, cost-efficient, developer-friendly platforms (CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes/EKS). Set multi-quarter roadmaps, budgets, and vendor relationships, partnering with Product, Security, Data, and DevOps leadership to accelerate the entire engineering organization.

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LG Ads
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6 months ago

Director of Engineering, Platform & DevOps

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Job Summary

Lead the Platform & DevOps organization to define the platform strategy, manage a large engineering team, and deliver secure, reliable, cost-efficient, developer-friendly platforms (CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes/EKS). Set multi-quarter roadmaps, budgets, and vendor relationships, partnering with Product, Security, Data, and DevOps leadership to accelerate the entire engineering organization.
Location: Denver
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and lead a large team organization (tech leads and engineers); attract, develop, and retain top talent.
  • •Define career ladders, succession plans, and healthy on-call practices; ensure sustainable delivery and team health.
  • •Champion a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement (blameless postmortems, strategic retention).
  • •Own the Platform & DevOps strategy and multi-quarter roadmap; align to company goals and product timelines.
  • •Define portfolio governance: intake, prioritization, and trade-offs across security, reliability, developer experience, and cost.
  • •Establish org-wide guardrails (golden paths, reference architectures, policy-as-code) enabling autonomy with compliance.
  • •Set technical direction for build/release, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes/EKS runtime, and observability.
  • •Establish guardrails (golden paths, templates, policy-as-code, org standards) to enable autonomy with compliance.
  • •Drive cost, performance, and availability improvements; own platform budgets/forecasts and FinOps practices.
  • •Standardize CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins or similar), artifact signing, progressive delivery.
  • •Enforce security-by-design: SCA/SAST/DAST in pipelines, secrets management, least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, runtime hardening.
  • •Lead remediation SLAs with Security; maintain audit-ready evidence for enterprise standards and regulations.
  • •Direct the design/operations of secure AWS platforms using IaC (Terraform/Pulumi) with drift detection and change controls.
  • •Oversee EKS/Kubernetes multi-cluster/multi-region strategy, capacity planning, and resiliency patterns.
  • •Define SLOs/error budgets and ensure effective incident response, post-incident learning, and reliability investments.
  • •Publish clear reference architectures, runbooks, and standards; keep documentation current and discoverable.
  • •Communicate priorities, trade-offs, and status to execs and cross-functional partners; influence with data.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience
  • •12+ years total experience in Platform/SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure, including 5+ years leading tech leads or multiple teams
  • •Proficiency in Python/Bash; automation around CI/CD, infra, and operations
  • •Deep AWS experience (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/DocumentDB/DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, security groups) and Kubernetes in AWS
  • •IaC expertise (Terraform preferred; Pulumi a plus) with sound practices (modularity, versioning, policy checks, drift detection)
Experience:12+ yearsCloudDevOpsSREPlatform engineering
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationStrategic thinkingCollaborationMentoring
Tech Stack:PythonBashGitHub ActionsJenkinsTerraformPulumiAWSKubernetesEKSECSEC2RDSDocumentDBDynamoDBIAMVPCSRECI/CDFinOpsObservability

Company Brief

LG Ads
LG Ad Solutions (LG Ads) provides connected-TV (CTV) and cross-screen advertising, leveraging deterministic ACR data from LG Smart TVs to enable targeted, measurable media activation and outcomes for advertisers and agencies.
Industry: Advertising Media Groups
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Mountain View, United States
Founded: 2013
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