Director, DevOps Engineering

Job title: Director, DevOps

Reports to: VP, Infrastructure & Operations

Department: Cloud Platforms

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Remote for non-GA residents)

Grade: 22

About Priority: 

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology company on a mission to deliver a personalized, easy-to-adopt financial toolset that accelerates cash flow and optimizes working capital for businesses. Our vision is to eliminate the barriers to unlocking revenue - empowering businesses to grow faster and operate smarter. 

We achieve this through the Priority Commerce Engine, an innovative platform that combines payables, acquiring, and banking and treasury solutions. This unified approach allows businesses to streamline financial operations, reduce unnecessary costs, and uncover new revenue opportunities. 

At Priority, we're driven by results. We expect our people to be known for results - bringing expertise, momentum, and relentless focus to every challenge, helping our clients and each other thrive. 

About the Role: 

The Director, DevOps plays a key role in leading the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of DevOps capabilities across Priority’s technology environment. This role is responsible for building and scaling infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering practices that improve reliability, efficiency, and delivery speed. The position requires strong technical depth across cloud, automation, and infrastructure, along with the leadership skills to guide a global team and influence cross-functional partners. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, QA, and IT teams to strengthen system performance, operational excellence, and long-term platform scalability.

Responsibilities: 

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, ensuring best practices in automation, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD. 

• Collaborate with development, QA, and IT teams to streamline deployments and optimize system reliability. 

• Oversee infrastructure as code (IaC), monitoring, and security implementations.

• Drive continuous improvement in DevOps processes and culture. 

• Evangelize DevOps best practice and technologies, working closely with development teams to drive adoption. 

• Ensure high availability, performance, and security of applications and infrastructure. 

• Evaluate and implement new tools, technologies, and methodologies to enhance efficiency. 

• Keep up to date with industry trends and competitor products. 

• Measure and analyze product success using relevant KPIs (uptime, cost, adoption). 

• Act as the subject matter expert for internal teams regarding product direction and supported use cases. 

• Estimate costs, build business cases, and assist with budget creation. 

What Success Looks Like: 

• DevOps practices are consistently adopted across teams, improving deployment reliability and engineering efficiency. 

• Infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines support scalable, secure, and high-performing systems. 

• Uptime, cost, and adoption metrics demonstrate measurable operational improvement. 

• Cross-functional teams work effectively together to streamline delivery and reduce friction. 

• DevOps culture and best practices are embedded into engineering workflows. 

• The organization is able to scale infrastructure and delivery capabilities in line with business growth.

Candidate Requirements: 

Required 

• 10-15 years of experience.