Infrastructure Engineering Director

Skills

About the Role

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, establish discipline, 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 the foundation supports what they need to build.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organizations
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, and scaling
• 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
• 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
• Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for infrastructure services
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in at least one modern programming language
• Track record of driving large-scale operational improvements through automation
• Understanding of cloud cost drivers and ability to optimize spend without sacrificing reliability
• Strong analytical and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Establish infrastructure strategy and standards across cloud provisioning, observability, disaster recovery, and cost governance
• Build and scale the infrastructure engineering team with operational rigor and discipline
• Own disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, testing, and organizational readiness
• Establish SLOs/SLIs for foundational infrastructure services
• Design and evolve cloud infrastructure for resilience, cost, and operational clarity, managing AWS, outposts, Kubernetes orchestration, networking, mesh, and compute provisioning
• Set standards for operational discipline: change management, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement
• Manage vendor relationships, cloud costs, and capacity planning
• Lead complex production incident response across infrastructure domains: Kubernetes, networking, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, cloud services
• Steward infrastructure platforms operating under strict regulatory and compliance requirements
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to influence platform direction, roadmap priorities, and long-term infrastructure strategy
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and vendor capabilities against infrastructure requirements
• Mentor engineers and raise infrastructure, platform networking, and operational maturity across the organization

Benefits

• Health plans including 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
• 401k with up to a 5% match
• Commuter benefits
• Pet insurance
• 14 paid company holidays