Hybrid Senior Director, DevOps

at HUMAN&HUMAN

• Job title: Senior Director, DevOps
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $0 - $230,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Amazon Redshift, AWS, BigQuery, Cassandra, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform, HBase, Kafka
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Senior Director of DevOps at HUMAN Security leading global teams and modernizing infrastructure for high-scale environments. Responsible for developing strategy and ensuring operational excellence across products.

Responsibilities

• Lead a unified global DevOps organization across Enterprise and Media teams
• Develop and execute a long-term DevOps strategy aligned with our engineering and product roadmap
• Mentor and grow DevOps Leads and ICs; create a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Establish best-in-class DevOps practices, tooling, and processes across regions
• Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of globally distributed, real-time systems that process trillions of events per month
• Lead modernization efforts across our infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and observability stack
• Partner with Engineering on architectural decisions related to distributed systems, data movement, and cloud infrastructure
• Provide hands-on leadership during escalations — guiding root-cause analysis and incident response with technical depth
• Oversee the design, implementation, and operation of high-scale infrastructure in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Scale tooling, processes, and automation to support rapid product innovation — including agentic AI–driven capabilities
• Drive improvements in cost efficiency, reliability, deployment velocity, and production security
• Champion infrastructure-as-code, testing best practices, and zero-downtime deployment methodologies
• Partner with Engineering, SRE, Security, Product, and Data teams to ensure DevOps alignment with organizational goals
• Collaborate closely with leaders across Tel Aviv, London, and the US to create a seamless global operating model
• Foster transparent communication and joint problem solving across R&D

Requirements

• 3+ years in a DevOps or Infrastructure leadership role
• Demonstrated success managing high-scale, real-time cloud environments
• Experience leading global teams and operating across multiple time zones
• Proven ability to unify disparate functions into a cohesive, high-performing organization
• Hands-on technical background with the ability to meaningfully contribute during incidents and architectural discussions
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) and distributed systems
• Experience with automation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and modern DevOps tooling
• Familiarity with large-scale data systems such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Druid, Cassandra, Parquet, HBase, etc.
• Experience with streaming or messaging frameworks (Kafka, Kinesis)
• Ability to script/code and work across a wide range of open-source technologies
• Understanding of production security, FinOps principles, observability, and high-availability system design

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards package for personal and professional development
• Well-being and learning stipends
• Flexible work options
• Dedicated time off