Director of DevOps

Job Overview

The Director of DevOps is responsible for defining and executing Knox’s enterprise DevOps, cloud platform, and automation strategy. This role provides technical and organizational leadership across Platform Engineering, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, reliability, and compliance automation in support of Knox’s regulated cloud environments. The Director ensures Knox’s platforms are secure, scalable, auditable, and cost-efficient, enabling engineering teams to deliver software rapidly while meeting FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Organizational Management
• Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Strategy
• CI/CD, DevOps Enablement & Developer Experience
• Reliability, Observability & Incident Readiness
• Security, Compliance & Audit Ownership
• Financial Governance & FinOps
• Executive & Cross-Functional Collaboration

About Knox

Knox runs the largest Federal managed cloud, building and operating secure cloud and AI environments that support the U.S. government’s most critical missions — from national security and public safety to essential public services. Our customers rely on Knox to deploy production systems that meet the highest standards for security, reliability, and compliance. Work at Knox is high-impact and purpose-driven.

Technical Environment

• Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, GCP
• IaC / Automation: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Spacelift
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Helm, Service Mesh (Istio, App Mesh)
• Observability: Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, CrowdStrike
• Secrets & Security: Vault, KMS, Azure Key Vault, Keeper
• Compliance: FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, SOC 2, ISO 27001