Director, DevOps and Mission Infrastructure

Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States; Denver metro area preferred; in-office collaboration expected 3–5 days per week.

Salary: $165,000–$220,000–$242,000 annually in Colorado, plus incentive eligibility.

Company

hirify.global develops spatial intelligence systems and infrastructure for commercial, sovereign, customer-managed, defense, and mission-critical operations.

What you will do

• Lead DevOps, cloud infrastructure, SRE, release engineering, and platform operations across commercial, sovereign, and customer-managed environments.
• Modernize and standardize platforms supporting mission systems and customer deployments.
• Design and operate scalable cloud, hybrid, on-premises, disconnected, classified, and tactical-edge deployment environments.
• Define long-term platform engineering strategy, balancing centralized shared services with embedded domain support teams.
• Build automation, engineering rigor, and accountability to improve delivery reliability and reduce operational chaos.
• Report to the VP of Mission Platforms & Infrastructure and shape infrastructure for autonomous systems, AI-powered mission planning, sovereign intelligence platforms, and real-time situational awareness.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or cloud operations, including the relevant domain experience.
• 5+ years leading engineering teams or technical organizations.
• Experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based cloud or hybrid infrastructure platforms.
• Strong background in AWS, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automation, and deployment orchestration.
• Experience architecting both cloud and on-premises deployment environments.
• Proven success modernizing fragmented DevOps or platform engineering ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, operational resiliency, observability, and release engineering.
• U.S. citizenship and U.S. Person status required; eligibility includes U.S. citizens, permanent residents, Asylees, or Refugees.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting defense, aerospace, intelligence, or mission-critical operational systems.
• Experience with sovereign cloud, disconnected operations, customer-managed deployments, AI-assisted DevOps, AIOps, or autonomous operational tooling.
• Experience defining centralized versus distributed platform engineering operating models.
• Familiarity with geospatial intelligence, satellite operations, mission planning systems, Zero Trust, and modern DevSecOps practices.
• Background at organizations such as Palantir, defense primes, or cloud-native platform companies.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Clearance eligibility preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• In-office collaboration is expected 3–5 days per week.
• Benefits include a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
• Incentive eligibility is based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results; the plan and target depend on the role and scope of contributions.
• The platform must support commercial cloud, sovereign national environments, tactical edge, disconnected and classified deployments, and distributed global operations.

Hiring process

• Submit an application through hirify.global’s Career page.
• The application window is three days from posting or reposting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.