Director, DevOps and Mission Infrastructure

Vantor • Westminster, CO

10d • $165,000 - $242,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Vantor is seeking a Director of DevOps & Infrastructure to lead modernization, standardization, and operational reliability for platforms powering 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 leader will scale cloud and on-premises deployment platforms while building engineering rigor, automation, and accountability to improve delivery reliability and reduce operational disruption.

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

Denver metro area is preferred. In-office collaboration is expected 3–5 days per week. U.S. Person status is required, and U.S. citizenship is specifically required in the qualifications. 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-premises 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 required.

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 technologies and domains including Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, OpenShift, Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation, AWS, Azure, sovereign and 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.
• Clearance eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead the modernization, standardization, and operational reliability of platforms powering 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-premises deployment platforms.
• Build engineering rigor, automation, and accountability to reduce operational disruption 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, with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved.

What This Job Offers

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