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Director, Production and Infrastructure Engineering

RCP HQ (McLean, VA)Full-time$240k–$290k2026-10-26 → 2026-11-11

Core

Lead the Production and Infrastructure Engineering organization, managing DevOps, SRE, DevEx, and MLOps teams to build and optimize AI infrastructure for enterprise clients.

Role type

Director, Production and Infrastructure Engineering

Builds

Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and AI/ML agent workloads for enterprise customers.

Domain

AI Infrastructure, Cloud Operations, Enterprise Software

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Engineering people leadership, Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD, Backend software engineering, Incident response, Stakeholder management

Preferred skills

MLOps, Model serving, National security environment experience, Scaling engineering organizations

Technologies

Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, AWS, GCP, Azure

Responsibilities

Build and develop the engineering team through hiring, coaching, and performance management; Lead across technical disciplines including reliability and developer experience; Own planning and delivery of sprint goals and roadmaps; Provide hands-on technical leadership via code reviews and pairing; Lead production and release readiness processes; Strengthen operations and developer experience; Manage dedicated Red Cell Partners support team; Partner across the organization on delivery priorities and risks.

Seniority

Director, hands-on IC with people management