Fanduel Infrastructure Engineering Director at FanDuel to own foundational cloud and outpost infrastructure. Lead operational excellence, standardization, and reliability across compute, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud provisioning.
Responsibilities
Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver critical projects
Define project tasks and resource requirements
Assemble and coordinate multi-disciplinary and geographically dispersed teams
Track project milestones and deliverables and report status updates
Identify risks and develop mitigation solutions
Provide direction and support to project teams
Identify decisions or trade-offs to ensure successful delivery
Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure clear delivery of solutions
Qualification
A mindset of ownership
Required
Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organizations.
Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, and scaling. Working knowledge of container orchestration, cluster design, workload isolation, and multi-cluster management.
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.
