Director, DevOps Engineering

S&P Global•Princeton, NJ

About The Position

S&P Global is hiring a Director, DevOps Engineering to lead the DevOps Engineering organization’s technical direction, delivery, and team culture. The organization builds and operates the pipelines, platforms, and infrastructure that enable fast, secure, and reliable software delivery at enterprise scale. This is a people-first, automation-first engineering leadership role focused on strengthening engineering velocity and platform resilience across the organization. The Director will lead and develop DevOps engineers; own the strategy and delivery roadmap for CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, container platforms, and developer tooling; and ensure platform reliability, availability, and performance. The role embeds security and compliance controls into delivery platforms and pipelines, partners across engineering and operations to improve DORA metrics, and manages cloud and tooling costs, vendor relationships, and platform investments. The position calls for a pragmatic, empathetic leader who fosters ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

12 or more years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering.
5 or more 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 enterprise-scale consistency, repeatability, and automation across multi-environment cloud deployments.
A proven track record 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 a team of DevOps engineers through structured feedback, performance management, and career planning.
Recruit and retain DevOps talent while fostering an inclusive, accountable, continuous-improvement engineering 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 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, translating requirements into 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 that balance innovation with operational discipline.