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About the Role

As the Infrastructure Engineering Director, you will own FanDuel's foundational cloud and outpost-based infrastructure layer. You will establish operational excellence, standardization, and reliability across compute, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud provisioning. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you set the standard for how infrastructure operates, focusing on predictable performance, clear processes, and documented procedures. The role is critical for supporting FanDuel's rapid scaling across new markets and cloud footprints, ensuring the infrastructure can handle growth without operational chaos or cost surprises. You will drive standardization, establish discipline, and build a high-performing infrastructure team. Responsibilities include managing vendor relationships, owning cloud spend and capacity planning, and balancing cost optimization with reliability and resilience. By connecting infrastructure behavior to business impact, you will drive improvements in reliability, performance, cost, and operational maturity, partnering closely with Platform Engineering leadership and product teams.

Responsibilities

Establishing infrastructure strategy and standards across cloud provisioning, observability, disaster recovery, and cost governance.
Building and scaling the infrastructure engineering team with operational rigor and discipline.
Creating career paths and developing infrastructure engineers into senior and leadership roles.
Owning disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, testing, and organizational readiness.
Establishing SLOs/SLIs for foundational infrastructure services.
Making clear tradeoffs between cost optimization and reliability.
Designing and evolving cloud infrastructure for resilience, cost, and operational clarity.
Managing AWS, outposts, Kubernetes orchestration, networking, mesh, and compute provisioning.
Setting standards for operational discipline: change management, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement.
Protecting infrastructure engineers from burnout while celebrating unglamorous work.
Managing vendor relationships, cloud costs, and capacity planning.
Owning the business relationship with infrastructure: negotiating contracts, optimizing spend, planning cloud adoption roadmap.
Leading complex production incident response across infrastructure domains: Kubernetes, networking, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, cloud services.
Stewarding infrastructure platforms operating under strict regulatory and compliance requirements.
Ensuring secure operation, auditability, and disciplined change management.
Partnering with engineering and product leadership to influence platform direction, roadmap priorities, and long-term infrastructure strategy.
Evaluating build-versus-buy decisions and vendor capabilities against infrastructure requirements and operational sustainability goals.
Mentoring engineers and raising infrastructure, platform networking, and operational maturity across the organization.

Requirements

Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organizations.
Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, and scaling.
Working knowledge of container orchestration, cluster design, workload isolation, and multi-cluster management.
Strong hands-on understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure: VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS, cost management, and operating hybrid AWS environments including Outposts.
Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or infrastructure strategy across teams, with the ability to influence technical direction and set standards.
Proven ability to establish operational discipline: documented runbooks, change management processes, incident response frameworks, and blameless post-mortem culture.
Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery, RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing, and resilience improvements across production systems.
Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for infrastructure services using user-centric and business-aligned metrics.
Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in at least one modern programming language.
Ability to build scalable tooling and automation.
Track record of driving large-scale operational improvements through automation, reducing organizational toil, and preventing recurring classes of issues.
Understanding of cloud cost drivers and the ability to optimize spend without sacrificing reliability, resilience, or team velocity.
Strong analytical and communication skills.
Ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Can translate infrastructure constraints into business and customer impact.
A mindset of ownership, continuous improvement, and long-term platform sustainability.
Experience with service mesh platforms (Kong Mesh, Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy-based systems).
Hands-on experience managing AWS Outposts or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Experience operating infrastructure in regulated industries where network segmentation, auditability, security controls and uptime are critical.
CNCF Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD).
Familiarity with observability platforms like Datadog, Prometheus, and tracing systems.

Skills

AWS
Outposts
Kubernetes
EKS
Kong Gateway
Kong Mesh
Terraform
Helm
Datadog
VPCs
Networking
IAM
EC2
Cost management
Container orchestration
Cluster design
Workload isolation
Multi-cluster management
Service mesh platforms
Observability platforms
Prometheus
Tracing systems
Software engineering
Automation
Disaster recovery
SLOs
SLIs
Change management
Incident response
Post-mortems

Location

New York
Los Angeles
Atlanta
Jersey City

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Director

Education Level

CNCF Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD)

Salary/Compensations

$197,000 - 246,000 USD

Benefits

Array of health plans (some as low as $0 per paycheck)
Programs for fertility and family planning
Mental health support
Fitness benefits
Generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave)
Annual bonus
Long-term incentive opportunities
401k with up to a 5% match
Commuter benefits
Pet insurance
Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Short-term or long-term incentive compensation
Cash bonuses
Stock program participation
14 paid company holidays
Paid sick time

About the Company

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada.
FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.
In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform.
FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland.
The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.
FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

Equal Opportunity

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law.
We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.
FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please email Benefits@fanduel.com.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.