Equinix
Equinix
Equinix provides digital infrastructure that helps organizations connect people, platforms, and services across global ecosystems. Its offerings include data centers, colocation, interconnection, ecosystem discovery, and digital services designed to support secure, high-performance connectivity for multicloud environments. By combining low-latency networks, high bandwidth, automation, and infrastructure designed with sustainability in mind, Equinix supports digital transformation for companies in sectors including financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and commercial markets.

Director of Product Software Architecture and Engineering, Equinix Hybrid

Lead Equinix’s AI and Kubernetes platform engineering for managed digital infrastructure services. Build global DevOps capabilities and operate highly available cloud-native platforms in a hybrid role.

Description

  • Build and lead a new DevOps team delivering AI and container management services for Equinix Managed Solutions
  • Set the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Equinix’s AI and Container Management Service
  • Work with Product Management to turn customer needs and market opportunities into platform capabilities
  • Establish service-level objectives, operating standards, and platform governance
  • Promote cloud-native engineering practices across development and operations teams
  • Own architecture, design decisions, and DevOps processes for Kubernetes- and OpenShift-based managed services
  • Ensure platform scalability, resilience, security, and operational readiness
  • Automate provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and service lifecycle management
  • Connect the service with global ordering and back-office systems to enable self-service
  • Collaborate with network, infrastructure, security, EMS operations, and EMS fulfillment teams
  • Operate the service to enterprise availability standards as it scales globally
  • Improve internal organizational processes and systems
  • Surface gaps, risks, and issues and influence stakeholders to resolve them
  • Provide objective guidance to senior leaders and executive decision-makers
  • Define improvement, standardization, release, change management, and support plans
  • Report portfolio status and budget utilization to stakeholders
  • Develop operational KPIs and improve availability, performance, and customer experience continuously
  • Lead a high-performing global engineering and DevOps organization
  • Support succession planning, talent development, career paths, and individual growth plans
  • Promote ownership, innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement

Requirements

  • Director-level experience managing managers and delivering multiple software products or services
  • Demonstrated leadership of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering teams
  • Strong operational background running highly available global services
  • Experience delivering and operating Kubernetes- or preferably OpenShift-based infrastructure at scale
  • At least 15 years of professional experience in software development leadership
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering preferred

Benefits

  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance plans for employees and eligible family members
  • Retirement plan contributions
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Healthcare coverage that complements the provincial healthcare system in Canada
  • Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP) in Canada
  • Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) in Canada
  • Tax-Free Savings Plan (TSFA) in Canada
  • Vacation and personal time in Canada
  • Paid holidays in Canada
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Potential equity offering, depending on the position
  • Disability accommodations during the employment process

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