Director, DevOps and Mission Infrastructure

Vantor • Westminster, CO

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About The Position

Vantor is seeking a Director of DevOps & Infrastructure to lead the modernization, standardization, and operational reliability of platforms powering its mission systems and customer deployments. The role owns DevOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, release engineering, and platform operations across commercial, sovereign, and customer-managed environments. The Director will scale cloud and on-prem deployment platforms while establishing the engineering rigor, automation, and accountability needed to improve delivery reliability and reduce operational complexity.

The Director will define Vantor’s long-term platform engineering strategy, balancing centralized shared services with embedded domain support teams. This leader will help shape how mission-critical software is deployed, secured, automated, and operated across global commercial and defense missions, including in commercial cloud, sovereign national environments, at the tactical edge, and in disconnected and classified deployments. The position reports directly to the VP of Mission Platforms & Infrastructure.

The role is based in the Denver metro area, which is preferred, and expects in-office collaboration 3–5 days per week. Applicants must be a U.S. Person; U.S. citizenship is listed as a minimum qualification. Clearance eligibility is preferred.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or cloud operations.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams or technical organizations.
• Experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based cloud or hybrid infrastructure platforms.
• Strong background in AWS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and deployment orchestration.
• Experience architecting both cloud and on-prem deployment environments.
• Proven success modernizing fragmented DevOps or platform engineering ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, operational resiliency, observability, and release engineering.
• U.S. citizenship.
• Applicants must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, intelligence, or mission-critical operational systems.
• Experience with sovereign cloud, disconnected operations, or customer-managed deployments.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted DevOps, AIOps, or autonomous operational tooling.
• Experience defining centralized versus distributed platform engineering operating models.
• Familiarity with geospatial intelligence, satellite operations, or mission planning systems.
• Background at organizations such as Palantir, defense primes, or cloud-native platform companies.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust and modern DevSecOps practices.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, OpenShift; Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation; AWS, Azure, sovereign cloud, hybrid cloud; GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD; observability and monitoring platforms; infrastructure security and vulnerability management; platform engineering and SRE practices; AI-assisted software operations and AIOps platforms; and distributed systems and mission-critical operational environments.
• Platform engineering or DevOps leadership at cloud-native or mission-critical technology companies.
• Experience in defense, aerospace, geospatial, or high-reliability operational environments.
• Experience scaling Kubernetes-based infrastructure and deployment ecosystems.
• Strong operational leadership combined with hands-on architectural credibility.
• Experience modernizing fragmented CI/CD and infrastructure environments.
• Clearance eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization, standardization, and operational reliability of platforms supporting mission systems and customer deployments.
• Own DevOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, release engineering, and platform operations across commercial, sovereign, and customer-managed environments.
• Scale cloud and on-prem deployment platforms.
• Build engineering rigor, automation, and accountability to reduce operational complexity and improve delivery reliability.
• Define Vantor’s long-term platform engineering strategy, balancing centralized shared services with embedded domain support teams.
• Shape how mission-critical software platforms are deployed, secured, automated, and operated across global commercial and defense missions.

Benefits

• Robust 401(k) with company match.
• Mental health resources.
• Student loan repayment assistance.
• Adoption reimbursement.
• Pet insurance.
• Incentive-eligible position; target is based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved, with the specific plan and target determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed