Sr Director, DevOps & AppSec

Job Description: Title: Sr. Director, DevOps & AppSec Location: Remote – USA, Canada Reports to: SVP, Engineering Vacancy: New vacancy The Role: We are hiring a Sr. Director, DevOps to lead the global DevOps function at JD Power. Reporting directly to the SVP of Engineering, you will own the strategy, execution, and day-to-day operation of the platforms, pipelines, and tooling that our engineering and data organizations rely on to ship safely and quickly. The Impact You Will Have in This Role: This is a player-coach role. You will lead a small, senior team with global responsibility across our cloud footprint, CI/CD, observability, and developer experience. You should be equally comfortable setting multi-year strategy with executive leadership and rolling up your sleeves in a pull request or an incident bridge. Success in this role looks like a leveraged, well-instrumented platform that lets product engineering teams move faster with fewer escalations, a measurably stronger reliability and security posture, and a high-trust DevOps team that other engineers actively want to work with. What You’ll Be Doing in This Role: Set and execute the DevOps and platform engineering strategy across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, secrets, and developer self-service. Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of DevOps engineers — including hiring, leveling, performance management, and succession planning. Operate as a player-coach: stay close to the technical work, contribute to architecture and code reviews, and step into incidents when needed. Partner with Security, Data, Product Engineering, and Architecture to embed security and compliance into the SDLC (DevSecOps). Own the cloud cost (FinOps) posture for the platforms under your scope and drive continuous, measurable improvement. Make and defend build-vs-buy decisions across the DevOps tooling stack; manage key vendor relationships. Be a thoughtful integrator of AI into engineering workflows where it produces real leverage. Qualifications of this Role: 12+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps, with 8+ years in management and time leading distributed or global teams. Track record of building and operating modern cloud platforms at scale — AWS strongly preferred; multi-cloud or hybrid experience a plus. Deep, current technical fluency in CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent), container orchestration (Kubernetes or equivalent), observability, and secrets management. Strong DevSecOps instincts — you’ve shipped real security improvements without grinding engineering velocity to a halt. Experience owning compliance work end-to-end (SOC 2, PCI, GDPR, HIPAA, or similar) in partnership with Security and Audit. Demonstrated ability to design for leverage: lean teams, self-service platforms, and clear demand management with the orgs you support. Nice to Have: Experience in a data, analytics, or insights business. Prior experience scaling a DevOps team from single digits into the 15–30 range. This position has a starting salary range of $225,000 - $250,000 USD/ $180,000 - $200,000 CAD per year. This is the range we reasonably and in good faith expect to pay for the role at the time of posting. An employee’s pay within the range is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, education, qualifications, experience, performance, business or organizational needs, and geographic location. Our Values We POWER Our Customer’s Success We are Innovative, Collaborative and Grounded and in Data We Make Things Easy We Get It Done We Start with Trust & Prove it Everyday JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to [email protected]. JD Power does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties. However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, JD Power has international sites and JD Power uses resources located throughout the world. JD Power may from time to time also use third parties to act on JD Power’s behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company within JD Power group of companies as well as to third parties acting on JD Power’s behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided JD Power with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America. If you are a California or United Kingdom resident, additional disclosures about the information we collect and how we use that information can be found by clicking here. To all recruitment agencies: JD Power does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Company Mission Our mission in the market we serve is clear. To power every auto-related decision through proprietary data, advanced analytics, deep industry expertise, and seamless workflows that connect insight to action. Our Values We POWER Our Customer's Success We are Innovative, Collaborative and Grounded in Data We Make Things Easy We Get It Done We Start with Trust & Prove it Everyday JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to [email protected]. JD Power does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties. However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, JD Power has international sites and JD Power uses resources located throughout the world. JD Power may from time to time also use third parties to act on JD Power’s behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company within JD Power group of companies as well as to third parties acting on JD Power’s behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided JD Power with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America. If you are a California or United Kingdom resident, additional disclosures about the information we collect and how we use that information can be found by clicking here. To all recruitment agencies: JD Power does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Apply To This Job