Infrastructure Engineering Director

FanDuel • Atlanta, GA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

As the Infrastructure Engineering Director, you'll own FanDuel's foundational cloud and outpost-based infrastructure layer. You'll establish operational excellence, standardization, and reliability across compute, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud provisioning that everything else runs on. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you set the standard for how infrastructure operates, not just keeping systems running but making them run predictably, with clear processes, documented procedures, and a culture that values doing things right. This role lands at a critical juncture. FanDuel is scaling rapidly across new markets and cloud footprints. Your infrastructure foundation must handle that growth without creating operational chaos or cost surprises. You'll drive standardization (provisioning, observability, disaster recovery, cost attribution), establish discipline (operational runbooks, change management, incident response), and build an infrastructure team that operates with rigor and purpose. You'll manage vendor relationships, own cloud spend and capacity planning, and balance cost optimization with reliability and resilience. By connecting infrastructure behavior to real business impact, you'll drive improvements in reliability, performance, cost, and operational maturity. You'll partner closely with Platform Engineering leadership and product teams to ensure our foundation actually supports what they need to build. In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organizations.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, and scaling.
• Working knowledge of container orchestration, cluster design, workload isolation, and multi-cluster management.
• Strong hands-on understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure: VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS, cost management, and operating hybrid AWS environments including Outposts.
• Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or infrastructure strategy across teams, with the ability to influence technical direction and set standards.
• Proven ability to establish operational discipline: documented runbooks, change management processes, incident response frameworks, and blameless post-mortem culture.
• Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery, RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing, and resilience improvements across production systems.
• Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for infrastructure services using user-centric and business-aligned metrics.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in at least one modern programming language.
• Ability to build scalable tooling and automation.
• Track record of driving large-scale operational improvements through automation, reducing organizational toil, and preventing recurring classes of issues.
• Understanding of cloud cost drivers and the ability to optimize spend without sacrificing reliability, resilience, or team velocity.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Can translate infrastructure constraints into business and customer impact.
• A mindset of ownership, continuous improvement, and long-term platform sustainability.
• You know when standards are working and when they need to change.

Nice To Haves

• Bonus Experience with service mesh platforms (Kong Mesh, Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy-based systems).
• Hands-on experience managing AWS Outposts or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Experience operating infrastructure in regulated industries where network segmentation, auditability, security controls and uptime are critical.
• CNCF Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD).
• Familiarity with observability platforms like Datadog, Prometheus, and tracing systems.

Responsibilities

• Establishing infrastructure strategy and standards across cloud provisioning, observability, disaster recovery, and cost governance.
• Building and scaling the infrastructure engineering team with operational rigor and discipline.
• Creating career paths and developing infrastructure engineers into senior and leadership roles.
• Owning disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, testing, and organizational readiness.
• Establishing SLOs/SLIs for foundational infrastructure services.
• Making clear tradeoffs between cost optimization and reliability.
• Designing and evolving cloud infrastructure for resilience, cost, and operational clarity.
• Managing AWS, outposts, Kubernetes orchestration, networking, mesh, and compute provisioning.
• Setting standards for operational discipline: change management, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement.
• Protecting infrastructure engineers from burnout while celebrating unglamorous work.
• Managing vendor relationships, cloud costs, and capacity planning.
• Owning the business relationship with infrastructure: negotiating contracts, optimizing spend, planning cloud adoption roadmap.
• Leading complex production incident response across infrastructure domains: Kubernetes, networking, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, cloud services.
• Stewarding infrastructure platforms operating under strict regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Ensuring secure operation, auditability, and disciplined change management.
• Partnering with engineering and product leadership to influence platform direction, roadmap priorities, and long-term infrastructure strategy.
• Evaluating build-versus-buy decisions and vendor capabilities against infrastructure requirements and operational sustainability goals.
• Mentoring engineers and raising infrastructure, platform networking, and operational maturity across the organization.

Benefits

• array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
• generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave)
• annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance)
• 401k with up to a 5% match
• commuter benefits
• pet insurance
• medical, vision, and dental insurance
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• a 401(k) matching program
• short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation.
• paid personal time off
• 14 paid company holidays
• paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

What This Job Offers

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