Director, DevOps and Mission Infrastructure

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters—where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can:
Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world.

To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.

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Vantor is seeking a Director of Dev Ops & Infrastructure to lead the modernization, standardization, and operational reliability of the platforms powering our mission systems and customer deployments.

This leader will own Dev Ops, cloud infrastructure, SRE, release engineering, and platform operations across commercial, sovereign, and customer-managed environments.

The ideal candidate is both an architect and an operator — someone who can scale cloud and on-prem deployment platforms while building the engineering rigor, automation, and accountability needed to reduce operational chaos and improve delivery reliability.

You will help define Vantor’s long-term platform engineering strategy, balancing centralized shared services with embedded domain support teams.

This role reports directly to the VP of Mission Platforms & Infrastructure.

Minimum Qualifications
10+ years of experience in Dev Ops, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or cloud operations5+ years leading engineering teams or technical organizations

Experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based cloud or hybrid infrastructure platforms

Strong background in AWS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and deployment orchestration

Experience architecting both cloud and on-prem deployment environments

Proven success modernizing fragmented Dev Ops or platform engineering ecosystems

Strong understanding of distributed systems, operational resiliency, observability, and release engineering

U.S. Citizenship required

Preferred Qualifications Experience supporting defense, aerospace, intelligence, or mission-critical operational systems

Experience with sovereign cloud, disconnected operations, or customer-managed deployments

Experience implementing AI-assisted Dev Ops, AIOps, or autonomous operational tooling

Experience defining centralized vs distributed platform engineering operating models

Familiarity with geospatial intelligence, satellite operations, or mission planning systems

Background from organizations such as Palantir, defense primes, or cloud-native platform companies

Familiarity with Zero Trust and modern Dev Sec Ops  practices

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Technologies & Domains of Interest Candidates should bring strong familiarity with many of the following:

Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Open Shift Terraform , Ansible, Pulumi, Cloud

Formation

AWS, Azure, sovereign cloud, hybrid cloud

GitHub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCDObservability and monitoring platforms

Infrastructure security and vulnerability management

Platform engineering and SRE practices

AI-assisted software operations and AIOps platforms

Distributed systems and mission-critical operational environments

Why This Role Matters Vantor is building the infrastructure backbone for the next generation of spatial intelligence systems.

This role will directly shape how mission-critical software platforms are deployed, secured, automated, and operated across global commercial and defense missions.

You will help create the operational foundation that enables autonomous systems, AI-powered mission planning, sovereign intelligence platforms, and real-time global situational awareness.

The future platform must operate anywhere:

In commercial cloud

In sovereign national environments

At the tactical edge

In disconnected and classified deployments

Across distributed global…