Infrastructure Engineering Director
FanDuel is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Director to own the company's foundational cloud and outpost-based infrastructure layer. This role focuses on establishing operational excellence, standardisation, and reliability across compute, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud provisioning systems.
This is a hands-on technical leadership position where the individual sets the standard for infrastructure operations. The role involves ensuring systems run predictably through clear processes, documented procedures, and a culture that prioritises high-quality engineering. The Director will manage rapid scaling across new markets and cloud footprints while maintaining cost efficiency and operational stability.
In addition to the specific responsibilities, employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned by the Company to meet evolving business needs.
- Establishing infrastructure strategy and standards across cloud provisioning, observability, disaster recovery, and cost governance.
- Building and scaling the infrastructure engineering team with operational rigor and discipline.
- Creating career paths and developing infrastructure engineers into senior and leadership roles.
- Owning disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, testing, and organisational readiness.
- Establishing SLOs/SLIs for foundational infrastructure services.
- Making clear tradeoffs between cost optimisation and reliability.
- Designing and evolving cloud infrastructure for resilience, cost, and operational clarity.
- Managing AWS, outposts, Kubernetes orchestration, networking, mesh, and compute provisioning.
- Setting standards for operational discipline including change management, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement.
- Protecting infrastructure engineers from burnout while celebrating unglamorous work.
- Managing vendor relationships, cloud costs, and capacity planning.
- Owning the business relationship with infrastructure, including negotiating contracts, optimising spend, and planning the cloud adoption roadmap.
- Leading complex production incident response across infrastructure domains such as Kubernetes, networking, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, and cloud services.
- Stewarding infrastructure platforms operating under strict regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Ensuring secure operation, auditability, and disciplined change management.
- Partnering with engineering and product leadership to influence platform direction, roadmap priorities, and long-term infrastructure strategy.
- Evaluating build-versus-buy decisions and vendor capabilities against infrastructure requirements and operational sustainability goals.
- Mentoring engineers and raising infrastructure, platform networking, and operational maturity across the organisation.
- Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organisations (required).
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, and scaling (required).
- Working knowledge of container orchestration, cluster design, workload isolation, and multi-cluster management (required).
- Strong hands-on understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure including VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS, cost management, and operating hybrid AWS environments including Outposts (required).
- Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or infrastructure strategy across teams (required).
- Proven ability to establish operational discipline including documented runbooks, change management processes, incident response frameworks, and blameless post-mortem culture (required).
- Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery, RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing, and resilience improvements (required).
- Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for infrastructure services (required).
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in at least one modern programming language (required).
- Ability to build scalable tooling and automation (required).
- Track record of driving large-scale operational improvements through automation and reducing organisational toil (required).
- Understanding of cloud cost drivers and the ability to optimise spend (required).
- Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders (required).
- A mindset of ownership, continuous improvement, and long-term platform sustainability (required).
- Experience with service mesh platforms such as Kong Mesh, Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy-based systems (nice-to-have).
- Hands-on experience managing AWS Outposts or hybrid cloud infrastructure (nice-to-have).
- Experience operating infrastructure in regulated industries (nice-to-have).
- CNCF Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKS, or CKAD (nice-to-have).
- Familiarity with observability platforms like Datadog, Prometheus, and tracing systems (nice-to-have).
- Salary range of $197,000 - $246,000 USD.
- Health plans including programs for fertility, family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
- Generous paid time off (PTO) and sick leave.
- Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities.
- 401k with up to a 5% match.
- Commuter benefits.
- Pet insurance.
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Life and disability insurance.
- 14 paid company holidays.
FanDuel Group is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the North America, FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media, including FanDuel, Stardust Casino and TVG. The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).