Infrastructure Engineering Director (iGaming)

Location: New York City, hybrid

Salary: $197,000–$246,000 USD annually, with potential bonus and stock incentives.

Company

hirify.global is a mobile gaming company operating sportsbook, iGaming, horse racing, daily fantasy sports, television, and streaming products across the United States, Canada, and other markets.

What you will do

• Define infrastructure strategy and standards across cloud provisioning, observability, disaster recovery, and cost governance.
• Design and evolve resilient infrastructure across AWS, Outposts, Kubernetes, networking, service mesh, and compute platforms.
• Own disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing, SLOs, SLIs, and organizational readiness.
• Establish operational discipline through runbooks, change management, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement.
• Lead complex production incidents involving Kubernetes, networking, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, and cloud services.
• Build and develop the infrastructure engineering team, manage vendors and cloud costs, and partner with engineering and product leadership.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organizations.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, scaling, cluster design, workload isolation, and multi-cluster management.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience with VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS, cost management, and hybrid environments including Outposts.
• Experience establishing infrastructure strategy, operational processes, disaster recovery, SLOs, SLIs, alerting, and incident response frameworks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one modern programming language for scalable tooling and automation.
• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, ownership, and continuous-improvement skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kong Mesh, Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy-based service mesh systems.
• Experience operating infrastructure in regulated industries with strict security, auditability, network segmentation, and uptime requirements.
• CNCF Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKS, or CKAD.
• Familiarity with Datadog, Prometheus, and distributed tracing systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) matching of up to 5%, paid personal time off, paid sick leave, and 14 company holidays.
• Health plans with fertility, family planning, mental health, and fitness programs.
• Annual bonus, long-term incentive opportunities, commuter benefits, and pet insurance.
• Commitment to equal opportunity, inclusion, and reasonable workplace accommodations.