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Red Cell Partners

Incubator for tech-based healthcare and security

Director – Production and Infrastructure Engineering

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of relevant engineering experience, including at least 5 years of direct engineering people management, or equivalent demonstrated experience; demonstrated leadership across multiple engineering functions for director-level candidates.
  • Experience leading teams with different technical specialties and seniority levels, with planning, prioritization, delegation, stakeholder communication, resolving technical disagreements, and alignment to shared outcomes.
  • A strong technical foundation in at least one major cloud platform such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Azure, with practical experience in Kubernetes, containers, networking, identity, and production operations.
  • Practical experience with Terraform, Git-based development workflows, GitOps, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), including guiding repeatable environments, configuration control, and reliable deployments.
  • A strong background building and shipping production software, with working depth across backend services, application programming interfaces (APIs), data stores, and full-stack integration; ability to review code and designs, reason about application failures, and pair with engineers to unblock delivery.
  • Experience leading production delivery and support, including reliability, incident response, release and change management, and collaboration with engineers on automated testing and end-to-end (E2E) readiness.
  • Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguity, learn unfamiliar technical domains, and make timely decisions with incomplete information; comfortable moving between people leadership, delivery issues, and technical discussions while maintaining team focus.
  • Experience managing technical commitments and escalations with internal or external customers, and translating their needs into feasible priorities and delivery plans.
  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Build and develop the team by owning hiring, onboarding, one-on-ones, career development, and performance management; coach junior engineers, develop technical leads, set clear expectations, give candid feedback, and build team skills and ownership.
  • Set shared priorities and clear responsibilities across infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, testing, and application delivery; delegate technical execution to appropriate leads, resolve disagreements, and hold engineers accountable to decisions and commitments.
  • Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, capacity planning, and delivery reviews with technical leads and technical program managers (TPMs); turn ambiguous goals into actionable work, manage dependencies and scope, balance roadmap delivery with incidents and customer support, and communicate tradeoffs as conditions change.
  • Participate in design and code reviews, technical investigations, and pairing sessions when the team is blocked; connect application behavior with deployment and operational concerns and guide practical solutions.
  • Make reliability, release and change management, quality assurance, and end-to-end validation part of delivery; assign accountable owners, establish readiness criteria with feature teams, and ensure testing, operational documentation, and rollback plans inform release decisions.
  • Lead improvements to cloud infrastructure, automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery, observability, on-call readiness, and incident response; prioritize work that reduces recurring incidents and developer friction, and use delivery, reliability, recovery, and support metrics to guide investment.
  • Manage a cross-functional team of full-stack engineers, DevOps engineers, and a dedicated technical program manager; align priorities, staffing, delivery commitments, and support expectations with stakeholders; resolve dependencies across application and infrastructure teams and maintain escalation paths.
  • Partner with Product, Platform, Applied AI, and Security/GRC on delivery priorities, operational readiness, and customer requirements; surface risks, secure decisions, and ensure follow-through on engineering commitments.

Desired Qualifications

  • Familiarity with MLOps, model serving, or operating AI/ML and agent workloads, with the ability to learn from and partner with specialists.
  • 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.

About the Company

Red Cell Partners

Incubator for tech-based healthcare and security

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm that builds technology-led companies aimed at quickly reaching scale in healthcare and national security. It supports ventures by developing tools and solutions designed to move advanced technologies from concept to market, addressing national priorities. Its approach combines technical development, mentorship, and strategic resources to turn promising ideas into deployable products. Unlike general accelerators, Red Cell focuses on mission-driven, defense-aligned projects with the goal of solving urgent public needs. The company’s objective is to bring practical, impactful innovations to market that strengthen national health and security capabilities.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
$598.6M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2020

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