Director, Production and Infrastructure Engineering
Venture studio that launches, operates, and scales technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security.
About Red Cell Partners
Red Cell Partners is an active McLean, Virginia-based venture studio founded in 2020. It creates, incubates, operates, and scales mission-critical technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security, with both incubation and investment activities.
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About the Role
You will build and lead the Production and Infrastructure Engineering organization across DevOps, SRE, DevEx and MLOps, plus a dedicated support team. You will own hiring and performance, planning and delivery, and release readiness, while staying hands-on through design and code reviews and technical investigations. You will improve cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability and incident response, and partner with Product, Platform, Applied AI and Security/GRC.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience including 5+ years of people management
- Experience leading cross-functional teams
- Strong foundation in a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS or Azure) with Kubernetes, containers, networking and identity
- Experience with Terraform, GitOps and CI/CD
- Strong software engineering background across backend services, APIs and data stores
- Experience with reliability, incident response and release management
- Some travel required
- Certain assignments may require U.S. citizenship and security clearance eligibility
Responsibilities
- Own hiring, onboarding, career development and performance management
- Set shared priorities across infrastructure, reliability, developer experience and delivery
- Lead sprint planning, capacity planning and delivery reviews
- Participate in design and code reviews and technical investigations
- Lead production and release readiness including change management and QA
- Improve cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability and incident response
- Manage a cross-functional dedicated support team
- Partner with Product, Platform, Applied AI and Security/GRC
Benefits
- 100% employer paid health care including medical, dental and vision for you and your family
- Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks
- Unlimited PTO with management approval
- Optional 401K and FSA
- Equity incentives
- Mental health benefits through Tara Mind
- GLP-1 solutions through Crux
