Director of Tech Ops & IT

About TuneIn TuneIn , the world’s leading live audio service, brings together live radio, sports, news, music, podcasts, and audiobooks from around the globe. With more than 75 million monthly active users, TuneIn is one of the world's most widely used audio platforms. TuneIn broadcasts over 100,000 owned & operated and partner radio stations. With premier distribution across 200 platforms and connected devices including Tesla and Alexa, TuneIn empowers listeners to hear what they love wherever they are, including exclusive commercial-free stations from the minds of folks like Garth Brooks. TuneIn Premium subscribers get additional exclusive access to commercial-free news from top networks like CNN, Fox News Radio, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, as well as live, can't-miss F1, MLB, NHL, and college sports. For more information, please visit us at Tunein.com or follow us on Instagram, or X. Our engineering teams build and operate highly available, globally distributed systems that power one of the world's largest live audio platforms. We're looking for a technical leader who is excited about operating reliable infrastructure at scale while enabling engineers to move faster through automation, modern tooling, and operational excellence. About the Position TuneIn is looking for a Director of Tech Ops & IT to lead the teams and technologies responsible for our production infrastructure, cloud operations, site reliability, infrastructure automation, corporate IT, and internal technology services. We are looking for an experienced technology leader to own TuneIn 's cloud platform, including infrastructure security, observability, operational excellence, maintenance, and cost optimization. This role also leads key aspects of our corporate IT function, including technology governance, incident response, and vendor management. You'll manage engineers supporting both cross-functional platform capabilities and embedded engineering teams aligned to key business initiatives. You'll lead a multidisciplinary team of seven direct reports across Infrastructure Automation, Tech Operations, Security, and Corporate IT. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building high-performing teams, driving operational maturity, improving engineering productivity, and balancing long-term strategy with hands-on technical leadership. What You'll Do Engineering Operations & Reliability Drive operational excellence across TuneIn 's production systems, ensuring high availability, scalability, resiliency, security, and cost efficiency. Lead reliability initiatives, including observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and service level objectives (SLOs). Partner with Engineering teams to improve deployment velocity, operational readiness, and production reliability. Continuously improve CI/CD platforms, developer tooling, and self-service capabilities that enable engineering teams to build and ship faster. Lead major production incidents, root cause analyses, and postmortems while driving long-term corrective actions. Establish and continuously improve the team's on-call practices, participating in the rotation as needed. Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Own the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of TuneIn 's cloud infrastructure, platform services, and infrastructure automation. Define AWS infrastructure strategy, governance, IAM, networking, Kubernetes platform, cloud architecture, and infrastructure lifecycle management. Champion Infrastructure as Code and automation-first practices across AWS and Kubernetes environments. Oversee production networking, DNS, cloud identity, cloud security tooling, and platform services. Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, forecasting, and operational reporting. Oversee infrastructure automation using technologies such as Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and modern cloud-native tooling. Ensure platform architecture evolves to support future business growth while maintaining reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. Security Refine, implement, and monitor security policies related to network perimeter security, access controls, and infrastructure inventory. Facilitate regular security reviews, penetration testing, security awareness initiatives, and bug bounty programs. Partner with Data Engineering to implement and oversee data inventory, minimization, and retention policies. Own and continuously improve TuneIn 's incident response plan, serving as the incident response coordinator during security events. Support information security policy reviews with partners, customers, and certification bodies. Corporate IT Lead TuneIn 's corporate IT function, including endpoint management, identity and access management, SaaS administration, helpdesk operations, asset lifecycle management, and employee onboarding/offboarding. Oversee internal collaboration technologies, conferencing systems, office technology, and enterprise productivity platforms. Manage vendor relationships, software licensing, renewals, procurement, and IT budget planning. Evaluate and implement emerging technologies, including AI-enabled productivity tools, that improve employee experience and operational effectiveness. Drive continuous improvements to the employee technology experience across the organization. Leadership Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing Technical Operations organization. Establish clear priorities, metrics, and operational processes across the team. Foster strong cross-functional partnerships with Engineering, Security, Product, Finance, and People teams. Influence technical direction across the organization through architecture reviews, operational best practices, and technical leadership. Develop operational roadmaps aligned with company objectives and engineering priorities. Communicate infrastructure health, operational metrics, security posture, and strategic initiatives to engineering leadership. What We're Look