Director of Platform Engineering

Role Overview

• Define and execute the platform engineering strategy across cloud infrastructure, ensuring alignment with business objectives and compliance requirements.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure operations across a multi-cloud environment (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Lead infrastructure evolution initiatives to improve availability, reduce costs, and enhance platform scalability.
• Drive infrastructure cost optimization through continuous analysis, rightsizing, and efficient resource utilization.
• Champion modern engineering practices including GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and Policy as Code across the organization.
• Oversee Kubernetes platform operations, ensuring robust container orchestration and deployment pipelines.
• Lead DevOps initiatives encompassing CI/CD pipelines, developer experience, and engineering tooling.
• Implement and maintain observability frameworks to ensure comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Establish and lead incident management processes, serving as a key coordination point between product development, security, and operations teams.
• Drive resilience testing and chaos engineering practices to proactively identify and address system vulnerabilities.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to maintain platform reliability and inform engineering priorities.
• Lead post-incident reviews and ensure continuous improvement through actionable follow-ups.
• Implement rigorous change management processes to minimize risk and ensure stable production environments.
• Partner with product development teams to plan and coordinate rollouts, balancing velocity with reliability.
• Establish and maintain release management standards and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, feature flags).
• Lead and mentor a globally distributed team across DevOps, SRE, Database Operations, and Incident Management functions.
• Manage relationships with cloud providers and service vendors, including coordination of incident reviews and service quality meetings.
• Build a culture of operational excellence, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing across time zones.
• Ensure infrastructure operations maintain compliance with SOC2 and ISO 27001 standards.
• Support FedRAMP readiness initiatives in collaboration with security and compliance teams.
• Partner with the security organization to implement infrastructure security controls and audit requirements.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, with at least 5 years in a leadership position within a SaaS or high-growth technology environment.
• Proven experience operating and optimizing cloud infrastructure at scale, with hands-on expertise managing cloud spend exceeding $1M annually.
• Strong technical expertise in multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code, GitOps workflows, and Policy as Code frameworks.
• Demonstrated success leading infrastructure migrations, platform modernization, and large-scale technical projects.
• Proven track record driving incident management programs, including on-call processes, escalation procedures, and post-incident reviews.
• Strong experience implementing and managing change management processes in production SaaS environments.
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to lead globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Working knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001) and their infrastructure implications.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes
• Terraform

Benefits

• Competitive regional compensation and equity package
• Flexible PTO and remote-friendly work culture
• Regional benefits (country-specific medical, wellness support)
• Global exposure with a fast-growing international tech company
• A team that values impact, transparency, and growth