The Director of Infrastructure will play a critical role in helping to advance Ripple’s development and production infrastructure, leading our Engineering & Operations Teams to facilitate our DevOps process, including shared services deployment, observability, automation, and overall infrastructure orchestration.

• Own all aspects of Ripple’s cloud infrastructure and platform, including roadmap and architecture for the four core infrastructure teams; CloudOps SRE, Database Engineering, and Platform Engineering
• Set the Infrastructure Org’s long-term technical direction and strategy and heavily contribute to the broader Engineering organization process and top-level company initiatives.
• Champion reliability, performance, and scale of Ripple’s core infrastructure services. (AWS, GCP) With a keen focus on metrics and data-driven decision-making.
• Support, grow, and mentor Engineering Managers and individual contributors in your org.
• Co-own OpEx planning and execution with the VP of infrastructure, heavily focused on building financial models in partnership with FP&A.
• Responsible for budgets within his/her/their department and resource planning to meet project objectives.
• Help further develop architectural patterns of extensive geo-distributed SaaS infrastructure and applications.

• 15 years of experience in a software engineering environment, 10+ years of engineering management experience in building and scaling a global infrastructure team operating high-scale cloud infrastructure
• Solid technical background and large-scale practical experience with modering infrastructure platform container frameworks (Kubernetes), production database engine familiarity, and metrics tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Log ingest)
• Proven track record of executing customer-facing infrastructure initiatives across multiple diverse product teams. Provide resource management to major initiatives by forecasting resource demands with functional areas, coordinating the staffing of infrastructure programs/projects with managers, and providing work direction and coaching
• Experience building and maintaining a 3-tier infrastructure support model, including development, site reliability, and front-line incident management functions in a chain of continuous improvement.
• The ability to synthesize all inputs from stakeholder engineering teams and develop a crisp long-term infrastructure roadmap, with the ability to adjust and realign at the speed of the business.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, equivalent training, or work experience.