Evergreen · 1 day ago
Director of Engineering - Cloud Platform and DevOps
Atlanta Metro
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
10+ years expEvergreen is a company focused on cloud infrastructure and internal platform capabilities. The Director of Engineering will be responsible for building and leading the cloud platform and DevOps organization, ensuring scalable and reliable cloud solutions while maintaining enterprise-grade security and operational excellence.
Information Technology & Services
Hiring Manager
Emily Goldsberry
Responsibilities
Build and lead a high-performing platform / DevOps organization; establish clear ownership, on-call models, career paths, and engineering standards in a startup context
Design and implement Evergreen.AI’s cloud platform from the ground up, with Azure as the primary provider and extensibility across AWS and GCP. Own networking, identity, compute, storage, and security primitives
Personally lead and contribute to the implementation of Kubernetes platforms, IaC foundations, CI/CD pipelines, and environment bootstrapping (dev → staging → prod)
Establish production-grade operational practices including monitoring, alerting, incident response, runbooks, SLOs/SLAs, and multi-region resiliency strategies
Implement secure SDLC practices, secrets management, identity and access controls, vulnerability scanning, and compliance-ready workflows (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)
Own cloud cost management, capacity planning, autoscaling strategies, and performance optimization as the platform scales
Build self-service tooling, developer platforms, and golden paths that enable product and AI teams to move fast without compromising stability
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in software engineering or infrastructure, with 4+ years leading platform, DevOps, or cloud engineering teams
Proven hands-on experience building cloud platforms from scratch in Azure (required); experience with AWS and GCP strongly preferred
Deep expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native architectures
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi), CI/CD systems, and release automation
Hands-on knowledge of networking, IAM, security architecture, and zero-trust patterns in cloud environments
Experience designing multi-environment, multi-region production systems with high availability requirements
Proven experience leading engineering organizations that have implemented agentic approaches to augment and enhance SDLC practices (e.g. AI-assisted development, testing, code review, deployment, and operational workflows)
Startup or scale-up experience building tools, processes, and teams with minimal existing structure
Exceptional leadership, communication, and execution skills in fast-changing environments
Advanced degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
Preferred
Experience with AWS and GCP strongly preferred
Company
Evergreen
Evergreen is the professional services division of Insight Global, an international staffing and services company specializing in sourcing IT, healthcare, and engineering professionals for Fortune 1000 clients.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase