Director Engineering, Shared Services

Air-tek

$120K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience leading infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, QA, or shared engineering services teams in enterprise SaaS
  • Strong technical background in cloud-first architectures and distributed systems
  • Experience enhancing engineering operating models and cross-functional execution
  • Knowledge of scalable system design and reducing operational overhead
  • In-depth understanding of QA strategy and automated testing practices
  • Strong communication skills for translating technical details to diverse stakeholders
  • Hands-on leadership style with a focus on building high-performing teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor teams across Infrastructure, DevOps, and Quality Assurance
  • Champion engineering standards in architecture, testing, reliability, and performance
  • Establish workflows and service models for shared engineering work
  • Drive a platform-focused approach to tooling and QA practices
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance execution and manage dependencies
  • Improve delivery predictability and release management practices
  • Foster a culture of trust and accountability within shared services teams
  • Enhance developer experience through improved tooling and CI/CD practices
  • Develop a deep understanding of technical architecture to identify project constraints
  • Define and execute a QA strategy aligned with business goals

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead high-impact engineering initiatives
  • Chance to work in a fast-paced enterprise SaaS environment
  • Collaborative culture focused on continuous improvement
  • Access to modern technologies and practices in cloud computing
  • Potential for career growth and development within the company
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Director Engineering, Shared Services to lead the foundational teams that enable our product organization to build, ship, and operate high-quality enterprise software at scale. This role will bring together Infrastructure, DevOps, and Quality Assurance into a unified shared services organization focused on reliability, scalability, operational excellence, delivery efficiency, and product quality.

This is an ideal opportunity for a hands-on engineering leader who thrives in complex, customer-facing enterprise SaaS environments and brings strong systems thinking. You'll strengthen operating models, improve cross-functional collaboration, elevate developer experience and quality practices, and help create a durable foundation for future growth as we scale to serve global airline customers.

What You'll Do:

  • Lead, mentor, and grow the Infrastructure, DevOps, and Quality Assurance teams as a unified Shared Services organization
  • Champion high engineering standards around architecture, testing, reliability, security, performance, and operational excellence
  • Establish clear workflows, SOPs, intake standards, and service models for shared engineering work
  • Drive a platform-minded approach to infrastructure, DevOps, tooling, environments, automation, and robust QA practices
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Delivery, Services, and leadership to clarify priorities, manage dependencies, and improve execution
  • Improve delivery predictability, estimation, release management, incident response, and change management practices
  • Build a high-trust culture with clear roles, ownership, accountability, and career paths across shared services teams
  • Improve developer experience through better tooling, automation, environments, CI/CD practices, and operational standards
  • Develop a deep understanding of the technical architecture and business requirements to identify capacity, reliability, security, and delivery constraints
  • Define and execute a comprehensive QA strategy aligned with company goals, customer expectations, and engineering priorities


What You Bring:

  • Proven experience leading infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, QA, or shared engineering services teams in a high-growth enterprise SaaS environment
  • Strong technical background in cloud-first architectures, distributed systems, APIs, infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and enterprise software delivery
  • Experience improving engineering operating models, delivery predictability, release management, and cross-functional execution
  • Experience designing scalable systems, reducing operational overhead, and improving reuse, consistency, and maintainability
  • Strong understanding of QA strategy, automated testing, test coverage, defect management, and quality practices across the software development lifecycle
  • Comfort operating in environments with external partners, incomplete requirements, complex delivery dependencies, and high customer expectations
  • Excellent communication skills; able to translate technical tradeoffs, risks, and priorities clearly and empathetically
  • A hands-on leadership style with strong attention to detail, a bias for action, and a track record of building healthy, high-performing teams
  • Ability to identify and balance priorities in a high-growth, scale-up organization supporting B2B and B2B2C customers


Tech Stack:

  • AWS
  • Kubernetes - EKS
  • Kafka - MKS
  • Mongodb -Atlas
  • C# / .NET Core
  • RabbitMQ
  • Iac - Terraform/Pulumi


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