Director, Production and Infrastructure Engineering
Redcellpartners · Seattle, WA (Preferred) or Remote (USA)
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## Director, Production and Infrastructure Engineering ### About Red Cell Partners Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies delivering revolutionary advancements across **healthcare, cyber, and national security**. ### About Trase Trase Systems (co-founded in 2023) empowers enterprise leaders to harness the full potential of **AI** without the associated complexity and risks. Trase is an end-to-end platform for deploying, managing, and optimizing AI in the enterprise—bridging the “last mile” of AI adoption. Trase is also at the forefront of **AI Agent** innovation. ### About the Role We’re seeking an Engineering Leader to build and lead our **Production and Infrastructure Engineering** organization. You will manage engineers across **DevOps, SRE, DevEx, MLOps**, and lead a dedicated **support team**—driving team performance, development, and delivery across these functions. You’ll bring a strong foundation in infrastructure and software engineering, stay close to the work to challenge assumptions and guide technical decisions, and provide hands-on leadership through **design/code reviews**, technical investigations, and pairing when needed. This role requires a nimble, adaptable leader who can organize ambiguous work, adjust plans as priorities change, and bring multiple technical disciplines together around clear outcomes. ### Responsibilities - **Build and Develop the Team:** Own hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, career development, and performance management. Coach engineers, develop technical leads, and set clear expectations. - **Lead Across Technical Disciplines:** Set shared priorities across infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, testing, and application delivery. Resolve disagreements and hold teams accountable to decisions. - **Own Planning and Delivery:** Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, capacity planning, and delivery reviews with technical leads and TPMs. Manage dependencies, scope, incidents, and customer support; replan quickly and communicate tradeoffs. - **Provide Hands-On Technical Leadership:** Participate in design/code reviews; join investigations/pairing when blocked; connect application behavior with deployment and operational concerns. - **Lead Production and Release Readiness:** Embed reliability, release/change management, QA, and E2E validation into delivery. Establish readiness criteria, ensure testing/ops documentation/rollback plans support release decisions. - **Strengthen Operations and Developer Experience:** Improve cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, observability, on-call readiness, and incident response. Use delivery/reliability/recovery/support metrics to guide investment. - **Lead Dedicated Red Cell Partners Support:** Manage a cross-functional team (full-stack, DevOps, and a dedicated TPM). Align priorities, staffing, delivery commitments, and support expectations; maintain clear escalation paths. - **Partner Across the Organization:** Work with Product, Platform, Applied AI, and Security/GRC to ensure operational readiness and meet applicable customer requirements. ### Requirements - **Engineering People Leadership:** 10+ years relevant engineering experience, including 5+ years direct people management (or equivalent). Proven ability to build teams and deliver through technical leads. - **Cross-Functional Execution:** Experience leading teams across specialties and seniority levels; strong planning/prioriti
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