Vice President Global Production Engineering

2 Months ago • 15 Years + • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

GoDaddy is looking for a Vice President of Global Production Engineering to lead the strategic direction and execution of its self-hosted infrastructure and global technical operations. This role involves overseeing the design, deployment, and management of scalable private cloud systems, ensuring 24x7 service reliability. The VP will collaborate with other leaders to define the technology vision, drive DevOps practices, and ensure infrastructure teams implement monitoring and automated remediation. The role includes managing a budget, overseeing vendor relationships, and building high-performing teams. This position requires expertise in infrastructure management, cloud computing, and experience with high-availability systems. Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills are essential.
Must have:
  • 15+ years of experience in infrastructure and cloud management
  • Expertise in managing self-hosted and third-party cloud environments
  • Experience in designing and operating enterprise-level infrastructure
Good to have:
  • Master’s degree or relevant certifications
  • Familiarity with Linux and open-source platforms
  • Experience working with security standards and compliance
Perks:
  • Paid time off
  • Retirement savings (e.g., 401k)
  • Bonus/incentive eligibility
  • Equity grants
  • Competitive health benefits

Job Details

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 enterprise-level infrastructure, and creating high-availability, fault-tolerant systems
  • Experience working with security standards, compliance regulations, and managing risk in a diverse and high-paced 24 x 7 environment
  • Strong leadership and people management skills, with a passion for developing high impact and self-managing organizations
  • Strong problem-solving to quickly drive decisive operational decisions and analytical background to make strategic decisions and deliver business results
  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with senior leadership, stakeholders, and technical teams across a global company

You might also have...

  • Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent industry experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field; master’s degree or relevant certifications is a plus

 

We've got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

GoDaddy doesn’t accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies.

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