ATG (Auction Technology Group) · 13 hours ago
Director of DevOps
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
12+ years expATG (Auction Technology Group) is a high growth marketplace company that connects auction houses with buyers globally, facilitating the sale of unique items through innovative online auction technologies. They are seeking a visionary Director of Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps to lead the evolution of their engineering practices, focusing on multi-cloud infrastructure and SRE practices to drive business value and competitive advantage.
MarketplacePublishingSocial MediaE-CommerceSoftwareAuctionsOnline Portals
Hiring Manager
Kate Stacy
Responsibilities
Define the North Star: Own and articulate a multi-year, multi-cloud (AWS & Azure) DevOps and Platform Engineering strategy that directly supports the company's aggressive growth targets and product roadmap
Outcome-Driven Execution: Establish clear, measurable, and ambitious SLOs and OKRs for the DevOps function, ensuring every platform investment directly contributes to business outcomes (e.g., increased deployment frequency, reduced MTTR, improved developer satisfaction)
Executive Partnership: Serve as the authority on cloud and reliability matters, partnering with the CIO, CTO, and Product Leadership to balance speed, cost, and risk effectively
Cultural Catalyst: Champion a culture of accountability, blameless post-mortems, and continuous, iterative improvement that prioritizes delivery velocity and resilience
Mandate SRE Practices: Instill and enforce modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, leveraging SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets to make data-backed trade-offs between feature development and toil reduction
Own the Metrics: Define, manage, and report on mission-critical KPIs, including Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, MTTR, and operational cost efficiency (FinOps), providing transparent, data-driven reporting to the CIO and Executive team
Incident Command: Lead high-stakes incident response, driving root cause analysis and ensuring the systematic implementation of automated solutions to permanently eliminate recurring failures
Build Elite Teams: Recruit, mentor, and coach a geographically distributed team of DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Engineers, focusing on professional development, psychological safety, and technical specialization
Decentralized Enablement: Drive the creation of self-service tooling, paved roads, and internal developer platforms that empower feature teams to safely and autonomously deploy and manage their own services
Technical Authority: Provide hands-on guidance on architecture reviews, ensuring solutions are robustly scalable and meet our stringent security, availability, and cost requirements
Qualification
Required
12+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure, with a minimum of 7+ years managing and scaling high-performing DevOps/SRE teams
Proven, hands-on experience leading large-scale architecture, deployment, and operations in both AWS and Azure environments
Expert command of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles; strong background with Terraform is mandatory
Deep experience with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)
Expert-level knowledge of defining and implementing enterprise observability systems (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus/Grafana) to enable proactive, data-driven operational decision-making
Mastery of modern CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary releases) that support a high-frequency release cadence
Company
ATG (Auction Technology Group)
A global technology company with over 350 employees, ATG is transforming the way billions of pounds, euros and dollars worth of items are bought and sold globally via auction.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$272.96MKey Investors
Mobeus Equity Partners
2025-02-17Post Ipo Debt· $159M
2024-12-12Post Ipo Secondary· $106.99M
2021-02-23IPO
Leadership Team
John-Paul Savant
CEO
Lesa Musatto
Chief Marketing Officer
Recent News
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