Infrastructure Engineering Director

This role owns the organisation's foundational cloud and outpost-based infrastructure layer, setting the standard for how compute, networking, Kubernetes and cloud provisioning operate. It is a hands-on technical leadership position focused on establishing operational excellence, standardisation and reliability at a time of rapid scaling across new markets and cloud footprints. The post holder drives standardisation, operational discipline and team building while managing vendor relationships, cloud spend and capacity planning.

• Establish infrastructure strategy and standards across cloud provisioning, observability, disaster recovery and cost governance.
• Design and evolve cloud infrastructure for resilience, cost efficiency and operational clarity, covering AWS, Outposts, Kubernetes orchestration, networking, service mesh and compute provisioning.
• Own disaster recovery strategy, including RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing and organisational readiness.
• Define SLOs and SLIs for foundational infrastructure services, making transparent trade-offs between cost optimisation and reliability.
• Build and scale the infrastructure engineering team, hiring for operational rigour, creating career paths and developing infrastructure engineers into senior and leadership roles.
• Set standards for operational discipline, including change management, incident response, blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement, while protecting infrastructure engineers from burnout.
• Lead complex production incident response across Kubernetes, networking, DNS, load balancing, service mesh and cloud services.
• Manage vendor relationships, cloud costs, capacity planning and the cloud adoption roadmap, including contract negotiation and evaluation of build-versus-buy decisions.
• 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, and mentor engineers to 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, including VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS and cost management, and experience operating 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: 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.

• Experience with service mesh platforms such as Kong Mesh, Istio, Linkerd or other 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 and Prometheus, and with tracing systems.

• Hybrid working.

• An array of health plans to choose from, some as low as $0 per paycheck, including programmes for fertility and family planning, mental health support and fitness benefits.
• Generous paid time off (PTO and sick leave).
• Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities based on performance.
• 401k with up to a 5% match.
• Commuter benefits and pet insurance.
• Medical, vision and dental insurance, life insurance and disability insurance.
• Paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays, plus paid sick time in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.
• Eligibility for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and stock programme participation.
• 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 across mobile wagering including FanDuel Sportsbook, FanDuel Casino, FanDuel Racing and its daily fantasy sports product. FanDuel is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland, and is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator, traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).