Dow Jones ยท 10 hours ago
VP Technology, Dev Ops
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$240K/yr - $290K/yr
12+ years expDow Jones is seeking a hard-driving and strategic Vice President of DevOps to lead our global infrastructure, reliability, platform engineering, and cloud operations functions. This executive will be accountable for ensuring our B2B and B2C financial news and data products are highly available, secure, performant, and cost-optimized. The role involves defining and executing the enterprise DevOps strategy while managing a global team to deliver operational excellence.
Digital MediaNewsPublishingSocial Media
Responsibilities
Define and drive the overall DevOps vision, roadmap, and operating model, aligned to business and product priorities
Lead and scale high-performing global teams spanning Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Release Management
Foster a culture of automation, measurement, and continuous improvement, with clear accountability for performance, availability, and delivery speed
Partner with Security and IT leadership (parent company) to ensure alignment on compliance (SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI, etc), risk posture, and enterprise resilience
Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly available, low-latency systems supporting financial data pipelines and news delivery (experience with AWS and GCP preferred)
Normalize and standardize tools, reducing fragmentation and improving consistency across environments
Ensure robust disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response practices for both B2B and B2C platforms
Embed reliability metrics into engineering processes, driving maturity with DORA metrics, SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
Lead the transformation to modern CI/CD pipelines, enabling frequent, reliable, and automated releases across multiple products
Drive adoption of AI-driven operations (AIOps) and intelligent automation for monitoring, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis
Own cloud budget oversight and deliver measurable cost optimization through FinOps practices, balancing performance, scalability, and financial discipline
Deliver transparent reporting on operational KPIs, including uptime, latency, deployment frequency, and mean time to recovery (MTTR)
Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data leadership to ensure new features launch reliably and with minimal downtime
Serve as the executive voice for DevOps, translating technical risk, performance, and trade-offs into business terms for the C-suite, board committees, and external stakeholders
Align operational practices with the unique demands of real-time financial markets, where accuracy, resilience, and global availability are non-negotiable
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience in engineering, with at least 8 years in DevOps, Infrastructure, or SRE leadership roles
Proven success in scaling DevOps practices at a high-traffic, data-driven, SaaS or media environment
Deep expertise in modern cloud-native operations; hybrid cloud (AWS, GCP), containerization, Kubernetes, and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation)
Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, and incident management practices; experience driving maturity with DORA metrics and reliability frameworks (experience with NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Demonstrated experience with FinOps, cost optimization, and cloud vendor management
Track record of leveraging automation and AI/ML for operational efficiency
Exceptional executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to influence decisions at the highest levels
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
Preferred
Advanced degree preferred
Experience with AWS and GCP preferred
Benefits
Comprehensive Healthcare Plans
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plans
Comprehensive Insurance Plans
Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources
Education Benefits
Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support
Commuter Transit Program
Subscription Discounts
Employee Referral Program
Company
Dow Jones
Dow Jones is a news and business information provider that delivers content to consumers and organizations via newspapers and more.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2007-12-13Acquired
Leadership Team
Almar Latour
CEO, Dow Jones & Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
Sarah Cottle
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Energy
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