Acxiom provides data management, identity resolution, analytics and marketing technology services that help businesses shape and improve customer marketing. Its work spans sectors including automotive, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services and retail, with an emphasis on responsible data use. Acxiom also works with platforms such as Adobe, Salesforce and Snowflake to support data-driven marketing and digital transformation. The company profile identifies Acxiom as a large employer, making its roles relevant to candidates exploring work in data services and marketing technology.
Remote Director of DevOps at Acxiom
Lead Acxiom’s cloud modernization, automation, and big data infrastructure programs. Manage global DevOps teams working across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and data platforms.
Сипаттама
- Lead and coach several DevOps and automation engineering teams of 20–40 people.
- Build a culture of ongoing learning, innovation, and reliable operations.
- Guide hiring, employee development, and retention efforts.
- Create career paths and technical competency frameworks.
- Promote sound engineering practices and current DevOps approaches.
- Set and deliver strategies for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, pipelines, containers, and orchestration.
- Align DevOps tools, workflows, and practices across product teams.
- Direct the technical migration of legacy data center workloads to the cloud.
- Design and deliver automation for big data systems using SQL and Spark.
- Maintain scalable, dependable, and secure deployment pipelines for critical data workloads.
- Manage infrastructure, monitoring, and cost optimization across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Work with platform engineering, SRE, data engineering, and security teams.
- Define metrics and KPIs, and lead ongoing improvement efforts.
- Coordinate incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
- Promote knowledge sharing, proven practices, and governance.
- Report to the Senior Vice President of Product Automation.
Талаптар
- At least 12 years in technology, including 7 or more years in DevOps or platform engineering.
- At least 5 years leading and growing DevOps teams of 15 or more people.
- Experience managing global distributed teams, including offshore staff and a mix of employees and contractors.
- Demonstrated success delivering enterprise-scale cloud migrations and infrastructure modernization.
- Experience with big data systems and large-scale distributed computing.
- Advanced practical Kubernetes experience, including cluster operations, networking, and security.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform.
- Strong experience with CI/CD platforms, especially GitHub Actions, and artifact management using Nexus.
- Extensive experience with configuration management and automation, particularly Ansible.
- Strong grasp of Git workflows, branching approaches, and code management with GitHub.
- Expertise across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Experience with Helm charts, container registries, and container security.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders at every level.
- Strategic thinker who can turn business needs into technical solutions.
- Experience managing data platforms such as Snowflake or Databricks.
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives across functions.
- Demonstrated ability to guide organizational change and technology adoption.
- Strong problem-solving skills and comfort working in ambiguous settings.
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field.
- Preferred: Advanced degree or relevant credentials, such as AWS, GCP, or Kubernetes certifications.
- Preferred: Familiarity with Apache Spark, the Hadoop ecosystem, SQL processing systems, data lakes, modern analytics architectures, monitoring and observability, security scanning, DevSecOps, and GitOps.
Артықшылықтар
- Acxiom is an equal opportunity employer, including for people with disabilities and protected veterans.
- Remote, home-based work arrangement.
- Full-time position.