Skip to main content
← Back to search
IE

Director, DevOps

Inizio Evoke

$100,000 - $145,000 / year

Chicago, IllinoisOn-siteExpert

Need a reasonable accommodation to apply or interview? Contact us.

JobMinglr uses automated technology to recommend jobs based on profile information and job preferences. Match Score does not determine eligibility for a position, prevent a user from viewing or applying to a job, or make hiring decisions on behalf of an employer.

Description

In the journey of your life, your career should make a difference.

At Inizio Evoke, we come together—to do the best work, in the best possible place. We're all in. Because it's everyone's role to make health more human™.

About the Role

We're looking for a DevOps engineer who takes genuine pride in keeping production systems healthy, secure, and humming. You'll own the infrastructure behind a cutting-edge agentic AI platform — from day-to-day operations to architectural decisions — and operate as a trusted peer on a collaborative platform team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role; the Director title reflects the scope of ownership and independence we expect, not the size of a team you'll manage.

This is a fully remote opportunity.

What You'll Do

Operations & Reliability

  • Support, monitor, and operate a production agentic AI platform running on AWS
  • Ensure all services are up, responsive, and scaling appropriately under real-world load
  • Own incident response end-to-end — triage, resolve, document, and follow through on prevention
  • Manage infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts spanning production and non-production environments
  • Lead release management and weekly operational rituals to ensure enhancements reach production smoothly

Infrastructure & Automation

  • Infrastructure as code is the way — we're a team that builds, deploys, and evolves everything through automation.
  • Research and evaluate new solutions to cloud infrastructure challenges; bring recommendations, not just options
  • Enforce engineering best practices with conviction — you understand why doing it right matters, even when shortcuts are tempting
  • Take rough direction, identify and propose solutions, gather feedback, and ship

Security & Compliance

  • Monitor security tooling and participate in security scans and vulnerability reviews
  • Ensure the platform stays compliant with security and data protection requirements
  • Treat compliance as an engineering concern, not a checkbox exercise

Collaboration & Process

  • Manage a backlog, track work in flight, and report progress clearly and regularly to stakeholders
  • Collaborate with the platform development team on changes and deployments — you're a peer at the table, not a downstream recipient
  • Participate actively in agile ceremonies: daily standups, sprint planning, and sprint reviews/closures
  • Partner with the platform development on sprint priorities, product backlog, and cross-team dependencies.
  • Surface issues early and proactively; the team shouldn't have to ask how things are going

What You'll Bring

Experience

  • 8+ years of hands-on DevOps or platform engineering experience at senior or staff/director level
  • Demonstrated ownership of production SaaS environments — you've been the person on the hook when things break
  • A track record of making sound, independent infrastructure decisions without creating downstream chaos

Technical

  • Deep AWS expertise, including multi-account management and production SaaS environments
  • Infrastructure as Code fluency in Terraform, AWS CDK, or both
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals — writes production-quality code in Python and TypeScript
  • Automation-first instincts — uses software to eliminate manual work and prevent future toil
  • Serverless infrastructure experience
  • Centralized logging and log management at scale
  • Metrics, monitoring, alerting, and reporting tooling
  • Experience with structured release management processes

Ways of Working

  • Highly organized — you run a backlog, track commitments, and communicate status without being asked
  • Proactive by default — you surface problems early and come with a proposed path forward
  • Comfortable in ambiguity — you can take rough direction and figure out the rest
  • Intellectually honest — you share your opinion clearly, then fully support the group's decision
  • Deeply aware of the cost of complexity — you know that complexity can be moved, but it's rarely erased; every decision to add it is a decision you're willing to own long-term
  • You treat engineering as a craft; this work should feel meaningful, not mechanical

Work Environment & Benefits

Inizio Evoke offers a fully remote work environment, competitive compensation, and outstanding company-paid benefits, including medical, dental, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. This range may differ based on your experience and skill set, geographic location, and cost of living considerations. We consider compensation more than just a base salary – that’s why we also offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work.
Compensation
$100,000—$145,000 USD

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.

About this role

Inizio Evoke is building an agentic AI platform and needs a DevOps leader to own its infrastructure end-to-end. You'll operate production systems on AWS across multiple accounts, manage incident response, drive release cycles, and make architectural decisions with genuine autonomy. The Director title here reflects scope of ownership rather than team size—this is a hands-on individual contributor role where you're a trusted peer on the platform team, not managing reports.

The work demands deep AWS expertise, infrastructure-as-code fluency in Terraform or CDK, and the ability to write production-quality Python and TypeScript. You'll need 8+ years of senior-level DevOps or platform engineering experience with a proven track record owning production SaaS environments when things break. Beyond technical chops, you'll need to be highly organized, proactive about surfacing problems early, and comfortable operating in ambiguity while taking rough direction and shipping solutions.

This role suits someone who treats engineering as a craft, understands the long-term cost of complexity, and works best as a collaborative peer rather than in isolation. You'll be fully remote based in Chicago, with compensation between $100,000 and $145,000, plus company-paid medical, dental, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

How this employer is doing

solid

  • Leadership Change
  • Hiring Mentioned

This role's local market on JobMinglr

Pay for this role

$100,000 to $145,000 per year

That is the employer's posted range, and where you land in it is usually decided in one conversation. Before that conversation, run the numbers: analyze an offer for this role.

How JobMinglr reads this job

Every listing here is scored against your profile before you apply: skills overlap, experience level, location and work arrangement, each weighted and explained. You see the score and the reasons, not just a list. How the matching works.