Director Cloud Platforms & DevSecOps

External Crown Castle Careers • Houston, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

As Director, Cloud Platforms & DevSecOps, you will define and deliver the enterprise cloud platform and DevSecOps strategy. You will lead teams to build secure, scalable platform capabilities that accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and embed security across the software development lifecycle—translating business priorities into an executable roadmap. This is an opportunity for an entrepreneurial leader to help shape the direction of Crown Castle’s technology strategy including building a solid digital and data foundation for future growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) required.
• 10+ years in software, cloud infrastructure, or DevOps, including 5+ years leading cloud platforms, infrastructure engineering, or DevSecOps teams.
• Strong experience designing, deploying, and operating AWS-based solutions, including cost and performance optimization; experience with hybrid cloud a plus.
• Proven delivery of end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls and testing (e.g., SAST/DAST).
• Track record defining platform strategy and delivering modernization through automation and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience operating scalable cloud platforms for mission-critical systems; familiarity with containers (Docker/Kubernetes), serverless patterns, and monitoring/observability (APM).
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across Product, Engineering, Security, Operations, and executive audiences.
• Ability to align roadmaps to business goals, manage budgets/capacity, and communicate ROI, risk, and trade-offs.
• Strong problem-solving and delivery discipline; able to execute long-term objectives in fast-changing environments.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a relevant technical field and/or MBA preferred.
• Cloud certifications (especially AWS) highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise cloud strategy (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Oversee design, deployment, and optimization of cloud-native and hybrid platforms
• Ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Drive cloud governance, architecture standards, and best practices
• Lead cloud migration and modernization end-to-end and ensure scalable hybrid operations across on-premises and public cloud
• Lead adoption of DevSecOps principles, integrating security into CI/CD pipelines
• Build and manage automated pipelines for build, test, and deployment
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation
• Champion shift-left security and compliance automation
• Collaborate with security teams to embed controls across the SDLC
• Embed security and compliance into cloud and delivery processes, including continuous security testing, risk management, and practices
• Oversee enterprise infrastructure including networks, servers, storage, and endpoints
• Ensure reliability and performance of corporate IT systems (on-prem and cloud)
• Manage identity and access management (IAM), endpoint security, and internal IT services
• Drive modernization of legacy systems and data centers
• Establish SLAs, KPIs, and operational metrics for infrastructure and platform services
• Lead incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and security frameworks
• Manage vendor relationships and technology partnerships
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, and Operations to translate priorities into requirements, drive enterprise initiatives, and ensure alignment and delivery
• Own DevOps tooling, CI/CD platforms, cloud operations, and IAM
• Build, mentor, and lead high-performing engineering and operations teams
• Collaborate with executive leadership to align IT initiatives with business goals
• Manage budgets, forecasting, and cost optimization initiatives
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement across platforms and processes
• Ability to communicate architectures, delivery status, recommendations, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences, including executives

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare plans with highly company subsidized premiums and up to $2,000 annual company contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA base plan for employee and dependents).
• Market-leading 401(k) plan, which includes up to 10% company contributions through our 5% match and 5% profit sharing program (based on employee contributions).
• New-child leave up to 8 weeks of 100% paid leave upon birth or legal adoption of a new child.
• Birth mothers are eligible for up to 8 weeks of additional 100% paid medical leave.
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year of eligible tuition and fees.
• Crown Castle scholarship program awarding up to $10,000 per recipient each year for eligible dependent children of employees and interns.
• Matching charitable contributions to qualified charitable organizations of up to $1,000 per year per teammate.
• Generous paid time-off for eligible full-time employees (minimum 18 days per year based on years of service).
• 10 company holidays plus 2 floating holidays.
• All offices provide free beverages and snacks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director