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Director, Software Engineering - Enterprise Infrastructure
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California, USA
Full-time
Director · 12+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 2 weeks ago
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Roles and Responsibilities
- Define and drive a multi-year technical infrastructure vision across network, compute, storage, and Azure, balancing reliability, security, velocity, and cost efficiency.
- Own service reliability for global network, routing, firewall telemetry, and identity/access pathways
- Drive AI transformation and automation for Infra, developer velocity, and operations
- Partner with InfoSec to harden posture (e.g., device identity, AAA, policy enforcement), complete rollouts with high compliance across global interfaces.
- Lead Azure governance for tenants, subscriptions, and shared services; scale visibility dashboards, cost guardrails, and remediation workflows in partnership with platform teams.
- Drive Zero Trust initiatives to modernize remote and enterprise access; coordinate cross-functional execution spanning network architecture, client upgrades, and policy refactoring.
- Oversee Infra migrations with predictable delivery and minimal user impact
- Provide direction for internal CI/CD platforms that serve enterprise applications (e.g., integrations for agent workflows, data pipelines) to improve developer velocity and operational rigor.
- Help lead the strategy and end-to-end delivery of corporate endpoint platforms and global VD to provide scalable device management and engineering escalation.
- Scale org effectiveness across distributed teams; ensure strong on-call, runbooks, and incident leadership practices.
- Manage multi-vendor ecosystems, negotiate contracts, and align investments to business outcomes and platform roadmaps.
- Establish annual goals/OKRs and measurable outcomes tied to platform health, compliance, and TCO (e.g., availability, MTTR, capacity, cost per workload).
- Hire, coach, and grow a diverse leadership bench (Sr. Managers, Managers, Staff+ ICs); foster a culture of clarity, accountability, craftsmanship, and bias for action.
Basic Qualifications
- BA./B.S. Degree or higher in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of experience in infrastructure/software engineering with 8+ years of people management experience.
- Experience in areas such as global network, compute, storage, and public cloud (Azure) portfolios in enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated outcomes in Infra reliability engineering, security and compliance programs, and cost optimization across complex ecosystems.
- Deep expertise in Network architecture, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), firewall telemetry, and distributed logging pipelines.
- Hands-on leadership across Azure governance (tenants, subscriptions, policy), platform observability, and FinOps practices.
- Strong experience in CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and enterprise developer platforms supporting internal applications.
- Track record of managing multi-vendor environments and large capital/operating budgets tied to business outcomes.
- Exceptional stakeholder management with executive communication and data-driven decision-making.
- Ability to clearly communicate with all levels of the organization and across functions, and translate strategy to execution.
- Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to influence and work effectively across organization boundaries.
- Ability to maintain good judgment in fast-paced, high-stress environments.
- Ability to innovate and scale ideas/processes to large teams.
- Experience managing complex software teams.
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Leadership
- Azure Cloud
- Storage
- Networks
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated outcomes in Infra reliability engineering, security and compliance programs, and cost optimization across complex ecosystems.
- Deep expertise in Network architecture, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), firewall telemetry, and distributed logging pipelines.
- Hands-on leadership across Azure governance (tenants, subscriptions, policy), platform observability, and FinOps practices.
- Strong experience in CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and enterprise developer platforms supporting internal applications.
- Track record of managing multi-vendor environments and large capital/operating budgets tied to business outcomes.
- Exceptional stakeholder management with executive communication and data-driven decision-making.
- Ability to clearly communicate with all levels of the organization and across functions, and translate strategy to execution.
- Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to influence and work effectively across organization boundaries.
- Ability to maintain good judgment in fast-paced, high-stress environments.
- Ability to innovate and scale ideas/processes to large teams.
- Experience managing complex software teams.
- Suggested Skills:
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Leadership
- Azure Cloud
- Storage
- Networks
- You will Benefit from our Culture:
- We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels.
- LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
- The pay range for this role is $215,000 to $352,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
- The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
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