Infrastructure Engineering Director

This role owns FanDuel's foundational cloud and outpost-based infrastructure layer, setting the standard for how infrastructure operates across compute, networking, Kubernetes and cloud provisioning. It is a hands-on technical leadership position focused on operational excellence, standardisation, reliability and documented process, rather than simply keeping systems running. The role arrives at a critical juncture as FanDuel scales rapidly across new markets and cloud footprints, and the infrastructure foundation must absorb that growth without operational chaos or cost surprises.

• Establish infrastructure strategy and standards across cloud provisioning, observability, disaster recovery and cost governance.
• Build and scale the infrastructure engineering team with operational rigour and discipline, including hiring for documentation and reliability, creating career paths and developing engineers into senior and leadership roles.
• Own disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, testing and organisational readiness.
• Define and implement SLOs and SLIs for foundational infrastructure services, making transparent trade-offs between cost optimisation and reliability.
• Design and evolve cloud infrastructure for resilience, cost and operational clarity across AWS, Outposts, Kubernetes orchestration, networking, mesh and compute provisioning.
• Set standards for operational discipline, including change management, incident response, post-mortems and continuous improvement.
• Manage vendor relationships, cloud costs and capacity planning, including negotiating contracts, optimising spend and planning the cloud adoption roadmap.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and vendor capabilities against infrastructure requirements and operational sustainability goals.
• Lead complex production incident response across Kubernetes, networking, DNS, load balancing, service mesh and cloud services.
• Steward infrastructure platforms operating under strict regulatory and compliance requirements, ensuring secure operation, auditability and disciplined change management.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to influence platform direction, roadmap priorities and long-term infrastructure strategy.
• Mentor engineers and raise infrastructure, platform networking and operational maturity across the organisation.

• Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE or infrastructure organisations.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations and scaling, with working knowledge of container orchestration, cluster design, workload isolation and multi-cluster management.
• Strong hands-on understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure, covering VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS, cost management and hybrid AWS environments including Outposts.
• Experience defining and driving platform, reliability or infrastructure strategy across teams, with the ability to influence technical direction and set standards.
• Proven ability to establish operational discipline, including documented runbooks, change management processes, incident response frameworks and a blameless post-mortem culture.
• Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery, RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing and resilience improvements across production systems.
• Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs and alerting strategies for infrastructure services using user-centric and business-aligned metrics.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in at least one modern programming language and the ability to build scalable tooling and automation.
• Track record of driving large-scale operational improvements through automation, reducing organisational toil and preventing recurring classes of issues.
• Understanding of cloud cost drivers and the ability to optimise spend without sacrificing reliability, resilience or team velocity.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders and translate infrastructure constraints into business and customer impact.
• A mindset of ownership, continuous improvement and long-term platform sustainability, with judgement about when standards are working and when they need to change.

• Experience with service mesh platforms such as Kong Mesh, Istio, Linkerd or Envoy-based systems.
• Hands-on experience managing AWS Outposts or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Experience operating infrastructure in regulated industries where network segmentation, auditability, security controls and uptime are critical.
• CNCF Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD).
• Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus and tracing systems.

• Hybrid working arrangement.

• An array of health plans to choose from, some as low as $0 per paycheck, including medical, vision and dental insurance.
• Programmes for fertility and family planning, mental health support and fitness benefits.
• Life insurance and disability insurance.
• Generous paid time off (PTO and sick leave), including paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays.
• Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities based on performance, with eligibility for short-term or long-term incentive compensation including cash bonuses and stock programme participation.
• 401k with up to a 5% match.
• Commuter benefits and pet insurance.
• Benefits differ across location, role and level.

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, with a portfolio of leading brands spanning America's #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; FanDuel Racing in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering; and its daily fantasy sports product. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator, traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).