Director of Platform Engineering - CANDIDATE MUST LIVE IN MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN AREA

Director, Enterprise Infrastructure & Platform Services

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Position Overview

A large, technology-driven organization is seeking an experienced infrastructure leader to guide the next phase of its enterprise technology evolution. This individual will be responsible for strengthening operational performance, leading infrastructure modernization initiatives, and developing a long-term strategy for the organization's hosting, compute, networking, and platform services landscape.

The ideal candidate brings a balance of strategic vision and hands-on operational leadership, with a proven ability to improve service reliability, modernize legacy environments, and build high-performing technical teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish a scalable operating model for enterprise infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop and execute a multi-year technology modernization roadmap.
• Evaluate future hosting and infrastructure strategies, including public cloud, hybrid environments, managed services, and alternative operating models.
• Lead long-term transition planning away from legacy technology platforms.
• Create strategic plans for data center consolidation, expansion, and migration efforts.
• Drive improvements in infrastructure governance, lifecycle management, and operational standards.
• Advance reliability engineering, monitoring, performance management, and service availability practices.
• Improve organizational processes related to change execution, release readiness, testing methodologies, and operational risk management.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve operational efficiency.
• Partner with executive leadership to align infrastructure investments with broader business objectives.

Leadership Scope

• Lead a multi-disciplinary infrastructure organization consisting of approximately 40+ engineers, technical specialists, managers, and contract resources.
• Provide oversight across multiple technology functions, including compute infrastructure, enterprise networking, hosting environments, and operational services.
• Evaluate team structure, workforce capabilities, and succession planning needs.
• Mentor technical leaders and managers while fostering a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Be Doing

• Setting strategic direction for enterprise infrastructure and platform technologies.
• Reviewing service reliability, availability, utilization, and performance metrics.
• Leading modernization and transformation initiatives across infrastructure domains.
• Guiding cloud adoption and migration planning efforts.
• Supporting data center strategy, capacity planning, and infrastructure optimization.
• Collaborating with executive stakeholders on technology investment and roadmap decisions.
• Building operational disciplines that improve stability, predictability, and service quality.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large-scale Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Services, Cloud Operations, or IT Operations teams.
• Track record of managing organizations consisting of 40+ technical professionals.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including servers, networking, hosting environments, and operational platforms.
• Experience leading complex modernization, migration, or transformation initiatives.
• Background developing cloud adoption strategies and infrastructure roadmaps.
• Demonstrated success implementing governance frameworks, operational controls, and service management practices.
• Familiarity with reliability engineering principles, observability platforms, and operational monitoring.
• Experience assessing organizational effectiveness and building high-performing technical teams.
• Ability to balance near-term operational priorities with long-term technology strategy.

Preferred Experience

• Enterprise-scale infrastructure transformation programs.
• Legacy platform modernization initiatives.
• Data center migration and consolidation planning.
• Service reliability and operational excellence programs. xhyhwjd
• Hybrid cloud and multi-environment infrastructure strategies.