Director of Engineering, Platform & Cloud Operations

What You’ll Do

The Director of Engineering will lead our Platform and Cloud Operations organization, with a strong focus on DevOps transformation, CI/CD, observability, and secure operations. This leader will drive the evolution from traditional release and operations models to a modern, automated, and highly observable platform—enabling faster delivery, improved reliability, and scalable growth across our Azure-based environment. Experience with AWS is strongly preferred to support ongoing migration efforts from acquired platforms into Azure.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the transformation to CI/CD and continuous delivery, moving away from legacy release cycles.
• Establish scalable build, test, and deployment pipelines across all engineering teams.
• Standardize engineering practices to improve deployment frequency, lead time, and release quality.
• Drive a culture of automation, reducing manual processes and operational toil.
• Build and scale observability capabilities (monitoring, logging, tracing) across the platform.
• Define and operationalize SLOs/SLAs, alerting, and incident response practices.
• Improve system reliability, performance, and resilience under load.
• Own and evolve cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code, environment standardization, and platform scalability.
• Lead performance optimization and cloud cost efficiency initiatives.
• Lead migration of acquired AWS environments into Azure, ensuring minimal disruption, performance parity, and cost optimization.
• Define and execute a clear AWS-to-Azure migration strategy, including architecture alignment, tooling, and decommissioning of legacy AWS infrastructure.
• Build and lead high-performing platform, DevOps, SRE, and SecOps teams.

What You’ll Need to Join Our Team

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years in engineering, with strong leadership experience at Director or Sr. Manager level.
• Proven success leading DevOps and CI/CD transformations at scale.
• Deep experience building observability and reliability engineering practices (SRE mindset).
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience implementing security operations and DevSecOps practices.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code, automation, and modern DevOps toolchains.
• Demonstrated ability to improve system performance, stability, and engineering velocity.
• Experience in enterprise SaaS or regulated environments preferred.
• Previous experience managing the daily workflow of the department.
• Previous experience training, hiring, and recruiting new staff.

Why Work For Us

• Competitive Compensation from $190,000 - $200,000
• Comprehensive Benefit Package**
• • Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Company-paid Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Accident Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • 401k with generous Company Match
  • Commuter Benefits
• Paid Time Off accrued per pay period
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Annual Bonus Program
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Employee Events
• Wellness Programs
• Employee Discount Programs
• Office in Park Ridge, IL - Convenient location to Blue Line

*Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related aspects.

**Eligible to enroll the first day of employment for immediate coverage.

Although the role is open to remote, PCMI can only hire employees in the following states: 

• AL
• AZ
• CO
• CT

• FL
• GA
• IL
• KY
• LA
• MA
• MI
• MO
• NC
• NE
• NH
• NC
• OH
• PA
• SC
• TX
• WA
• WI

Note: It is required for this role to be in the Park Ridge, IL office 2 days per week if candidate is located in the Chicagoland area.