Legion hires Director of Production Engineering to lead DevOps, SRE, and SecOps for its AWS production platform

Legion is recruiting a Director of Production Engineering (also titled Director of Engineering, DevOps & SRE) for a fully remote position in the United States. The role is positioned at the intersection of infrastructure, reliability, security, and team leadership. The posting emphasizes a mix of strategic responsibilities and hands-on technical contributions.

This position owns the availability, scalability, and security of Legion's production environment. Their infrastructure runs on AWS and specifically calls out EKS and RDS among AWS services. The director is expected to produce a reliability and infrastructure roadmap that balances high availability with cost efficiency.

The job is a hands-on leadership role. About 20–30% of the director's time is expected to be spent on architecture, tooling, and incident response. The remaining time focuses on vision, roadmap planning, cross-team execution, and people management. The listing emphasizes recruiting, mentoring, and managing a globally distributed DevOps/SRE engineering team and fostering ownership and collaboration.

Reliability, automation, and observability

Legion wants an engineering leader who will define and drive engineering OKRs for infrastructure reliability and automation. Observability and alerting best practices are part of the remit, with Datadog specifically mentioned as an example. The role includes automating alert triage and building platform tooling to reduce toil and improve mean time to resolution.

The director will lead the organization's security operations practice. Key tasks include vulnerability management, threat detection, incident response, and remediation. The goal is proactive identification and resolution of security issues before they affect customers. The role sits at the intersection of engineering and IT to ensure the platform meets security and compliance standards.

A core responsibility is hiring and scaling a distributed DevOps/SRE team. The posting expects the leader to recruit engineers, mentor them, and establish a culture of continuous improvement. Management work includes setting measurable outcomes and tracking progress against those objectives.

Cross-team collaboration and outcomes

The director will partner closely with engineering and IT to build resilient systems and drive operational excellence. Deliverables are framed around measurable outcomes: reliability SLAs, automation targets, security posture metrics, and cost-efficiency goals. The role requires translating platform needs into roadmaps and coordinating cross-functional execution.

The job listing appears alongside other senior technical roles at Legion, including a Chief Architect opening. That context suggests Legion is investing in technical leadership to scale and secure its AI-enabled workforce management product.

This role fits candidates with hands-on infrastructure experience on AWS (EKS, RDS), who can split time between technical contribution and leadership. It's appropriate for leaders who have run SecOps functions, built observability and automation practices, and who can hire and manage distributed teams.

Legion's Director of Production Engineering role is a combined technical and leadership position focused on making its AWS production platform reliable, secure, and cost-effective while building and managing a distributed DevOps/SRE organization.