Director of Engineering, Infrastructure
Core
Lead the technical and organizational strategy for Ripple's multi-cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platform, ensuring high availability, security, and developer velocity for financial institution customers.
Role type
Director of Engineering, Infrastructure (Hands-on IC leader)
Builds
Multi-cloud Kubernetes-native environment, cluster architecture, workload orchestration, service networking, and CI/CD pipelines
Domain
FinTech / Crypto / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes at scale, multi-cloud strategy (AWS/GCP/Azure), infrastructure-as-code, distributed systems design, observability, service mesh, security compliance, team leadership
Preferred skills
FinTech/payments/crypto experience, blockchain node operations, hardware security modules
Technologies
Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, AWS, GCP, Azure
Responsibilities
Define multi-year infrastructure roadmap, set operational excellence standards (SLOs, incident response), drive multi-cloud execution, partner with Security/Compliance, own cloud spend efficiency, provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor teams
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with management of managers
