Western Digital Director Engineering Services 

United States, California, San Jose 

469058939

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

We are seeking a self-driven and strategic leader to build and lead a high-performing, scalable, and future-ready Engineering Services and DevOps Center of Excellence, focused on improving development velocity, platform automation and cross-functional integration. This role requires a leader with a strong ownership mindset who can drive results-oriented initiatives in close partnership with engineering and IT leaders across business units. Key focus areas include CI/CD optimization, web tools lifecycle management, build and release automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and enterprise observability.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Engineering Services, DevOps & Modernization

• Own and optimize CI/CD workflows across multiple product lines for speed, reliability, and quality.
• Establish robust build and release automation, integrating test automation and security scanning.
• Oversee modernization and lifecycle management of engineering tools and platforms.
• Consolidate fragmented tools and services across teams to drive consistency, maintainability, and business agility.
• Ability to lead DevOps initiatives leveraging cloud-native and SaaS-based DevOps tools such as GitOps, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps across multi-cloud environments.
• Champion adoption of AI/ML and Agentic AI to enable predictive, proactive operations.
• Implement self-service developer platforms and self-healing systems.

Enterprise Observability & Insights

• Lead the strategy and implementation of enterprise observability platforms, integrating metrics, logs, traces, and events.
• Drive AIOps adoption for real-time anomaly detection, RCA automation, and improved service health insights.
• Drive the development and use of dashboards and data visualizations for real-time engineering and platform metrics.
• Enable actionable insights through data analytics to inform platform health, developer productivity, and operational decisions.

Leadership & Strategic Alignment

• Partner with engineering and IT leaders to align modernization goals and execution.
• Build and lead a high-performing team focused on automation, velocity, and excellence.
• Define key performance metrics and ensure compliance, security, and service sustainability.

REQUIRED

• Bachelor's/Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 14+ years in engineering services, DevOps, or platform leadership roles.
• Proven experience in platform modernization and DevOps at scale.
• Expertise in CI/CD, IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and automation in multi-cloud environments.
• Experience with observability and AIOps platforms
• Familiarity with internal developer platforms, AI-driven automation, and Agentic AI.

SKILLS

• Strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Knowledge of SRE, platform engineering, and Agile/SAFe practices.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.

• You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either Western Digital’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.