Red Cell Partners - Director, Production and Infrastructure Engineering

• Engineering People Leadership: 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, including 5+ years of direct engineering people management, or equivalent demonstrated experience. A track record of building teams, coaching engineers (platform, infrastructure), managing performance, and delivering through technical leads. Director-level candidates should demonstrate leadership across multiple engineering functions. • Engineering People Leadership: • Cross-Functional Execution: Experience leading teams with different technical specialties and seniority levels. Strong planning, prioritization, delegation, and stakeholder communication; able to resolve technical disagreements and keep teams aligned to shared outcomes. • Cross-Functional Execution: • Cloud Infrastructure: A strong technical foundation in at least one major cloud platform, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure, with practical experience in Kubernetes, containers, networking, identity, and production operations. • Cloud Infrastructure: • Infrastructure as Code and Delivery Automation: Practical experience with Terraform, Git-based development workflows, GitOps, and CI/CD. Able to guide the team's approach to repeatable environments, configuration control, and reliable deployments. • Infrastructure as Code and Delivery Automation: • Software Engineering: A strong background building and shipping production software, with working depth across backend services, APIs, data stores, and full-stack integration. Able to review code and designs, reason about application failures, and pair with engineers to unblock delivery. • Software Engineering: • Operational and Quality Leadership: Experience leading production delivery and support, including reliability, incident response, release and change management, and collaboration with engineers on automated testing and E2E readiness. • Operational and Quality Leadership: • Adaptability and Ownership: Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguity, learn unfamiliar technical domains, and make timely decisions with incomplete information. Comfortable shifting between people leadership, delivery issues, and technical discussions while maintaining team focus. • Adaptability and Ownership: • Customer and Partner Collaboration: Experience managing technical commitments and escalations with internal or external customers, and translating their needs into feasible priorities and delivery plans. • Customer and Partner Collaboration: • Familiarity with MLOps, model serving, or operating AI/ML and agent workloads; able to learn from and partner with specialists in these areas. • Experience supporting customer-managed environments, multiple cloud providers, or enterprise deployments with complex integration needs. • Experience in national security, federal, regulated, or other security-sensitive environments and partnering with Security/GRC on engineering requirements. • Experience scaling an engineering organization or building a new team or operating function in a fast-changing company. • Certain national security assignments may require U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance, depending on confirmed customer and contract requirements. Some travel is required. • U.S. citizenship • If you want to be on the cutting edge of technology, building AI solutions for the future, and are up for a challenge, let’s talk! • Salary Range: $240,000-290,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors. • Our Red Cell Partners Benefits (may differ for each incubation): • For full-time roles • Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows • 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. • Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay. • Unlimited PTO, with management approval. • Opportunities for professional development and continued learning. • Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available. • Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind. • Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.