Vice President Global Production Engineering

Location Details: Remote USA

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This position may be a hybrid or fully remote position, as decided by your manager. If designated as hybrid, you’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office location, so you should live within commuting distance. If designated as remote, you’ll be working remotely from your home and may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings. Your hiring manager can share more about this role’s hybrid or remote designation.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands.

Join Our Team…

GoDaddy is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking VP of Global Production Engineering to join our leadership team. This senior role is responsible for driving the strategic direction and execution of GoDaddy's self-hosted infrastructure and global technical operations, and will oversee the design, deployment, and management of scalable, high-performance private cloud systems to support GoDaddy’s millions of customers worldwide as well as driving the 24x7 service reliability of our products and platforms.

This position requires a strong technical leader with extensive operational experience managing service provider scale mission critical platforms, cloud infrastructure, automation, DevOps and ITSM practices, and building secure, resilient, economical, and high-performance technical platforms. The position works closely with other senior technology leaders, engineers, business leaders, and cross-functional teams to implement industry-leading infrastructure and DevOps practices that will enable GoDaddy’s growth and innovation in a rapidly evolving landscape.

What you'll get to do...

• Develop and execute a unified strategy for infrastructure and operations from our self-managed data centers to our 24x7 global operations
• Collaborate with senior leaders to define the technology vision and roadmap, aligning infrastructure and DevOps initiatives with business goals
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence across teams
• Drive development and execution of secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient infrastructure that support GoDaddy’s global hosting products
• Collaborate on the management and optimization of GoDaddy’s third party cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, etc.), ensuring efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and security
• Oversee the implementation of DevOps practices across the organization, creating integrations between development, testing, deployment, and operational processes
• Drive the use of modern tools and methodologies such as CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), private cloud virtualization, and containerization, to improve delivery speed, quality, and security
• Foster a collaborative environment between development, operations, and security teams to drive to improve service reliability
• Ensure infrastructure and DevOps teams implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation practices to ensure security, uptime, performance, and cost efficiency
• Establish and maintain disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity processes for core self-hosted platforms
• Operationalize efforts to ensure security best practices & standards are implemented across self-hosted infrastructure services
• Build and scale high-performing teams by attracting, mentoring, and retaining top talent in infrastructure, DevOps, and cloud engineering
• Provide leadership and direction for career development and performance management within the Infrastructure and DevOps teams
• Effectively manage significant budget with a focus on the deployment of capital for optimal business outcomes
• Oversee relationships with external vendors and organizations for cloud services, infrastructure, tools, and practices ensuring that partnerships align with GoDaddy’s strategic business goals

Your experience should include...

• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure management, DevOps, cloud computing, and related technical leadership roles
• Expertise in managing and scaling self-hosted and third-party cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc). Deep familiarity with Linux and open-source platforms, Microsoft server technologies, OpenStack, container technologies, service provider class global networks, infrastructure-as-code, and automations technologies (eg. Ansible, SALT, & Puppet)
• Proven experience in designing and operating enterpris