Director, DevOps Engineering

S&P Global•Princeton, NJ

About The Position

S&P Global’s DevOps Engineering organization builds and operates the pipelines, platforms, and infrastructure that enable fast, secure, reliable software delivery at enterprise scale. This people-first, automation-first engineering leadership role shapes the organization’s technical direction and team culture, influencing engineering velocity and platform resilience across the firm. The role calls for a pragmatic, empathetic leader who sets clear expectations, makes sound decisions under pressure, and promotes ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement. The Director leads and develops DevOps engineers and owns the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, and developer tooling. The position advances infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automation; ensures platform reliability and availability; and embeds security and compliance controls into delivery pipelines and platforms. Working with application engineering, product, operations, Security, Risk, and Architecture teams, the Director improves engineering delivery metrics, manages cloud and tooling costs and vendor relationships, and communicates strategy, priorities, risks, and outcomes to senior stakeholders. The role requires 12 or more years of relevant DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering experience, including at least five years leading DevOps or platform engineering teams. A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, is required. The anticipated US base salary range is $177,000–$210,000, and the role is eligible for an annual incentive plan and additional S&P Global benefits.

Requirements

12 or more years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering.
At least 5 years leading DevOps or platform engineering teams, with accountability for performance, delivery, and team development.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
Production experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience with Docker and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
Production experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Helm, driving automation and consistency at enterprise scale across multi-environment cloud deployments.
A proven record of ensuring platform reliability and availability through observability practices, SLO definition and measurement, capacity planning, and structured production incident response and problem management.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with DevSecOps practices, including software supply-chain security, artifact management such as JFrog Artifactory, and vulnerability management pipeline integration.
Experience building internal developer platforms or developer portals using platform engineering principles.
Experience with DORA metrics frameworks, SRE practices, and FinOps cloud cost optimization in enterprise environments.
Experience managing distributed or global DevOps engineering teams in a regulated enterprise environment.
Relevant certifications in cloud platforms, container orchestration, or infrastructure automation, such as AWS Solutions Architect, CKA/CKAD, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop DevOps engineers through structured feedback, performance management, and career planning; recruit and retain talent and foster an inclusive, accountable, continuously improving culture.
Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, and developer tooling.
Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automation to improve consistency, speed, and repeatability across the engineering estate.
Ensure platform reliability, availability, and performance through observability practices, SLO definition and measurement, capacity planning, and effective incident and problem management.
Establish measurable reliability standards that application engineering teams can depend on.
Partner with Security, Risk, and Architecture teams to embed security and compliance controls into delivery pipelines and platforms, creating automated, auditable guardrails.
Partner with application engineering, product, and operations teams to improve DORA metrics using data-driven insights and demonstrate business value.
Manage cloud and tooling costs, vendor relationships, and platform investments with a focus on efficiency and value.
Communicate strategy, priorities, risks, and outcomes to senior stakeholders and make resource allocation decisions balancing innovation with operational discipline.