Director of Cloud & Platform Engineering

Director, Cloud & Platform Engineering

Position Summary:

Build and lead a unified Cloud & Platform Engineering organization responsible for the infrastructure, platforms, automation, reliability, and operational capabilities that allow engineering teams to develop, deploy, and operate software continuously, securely, and efficiently.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Establish the strategy, operating model, service ownership, and organizational roadmap across cloud infrastructure, DevOps, DevSecOps, database engineering, and related platform services.
• Build the deployment architecture and CI/CD capabilities required for frequent, low-risk releases with near-zero downtime, rapid rollback, and minimal dependence on maintenance windows.
• Create a highly automated, self-service engineering platform using infrastructure-as-code, standardized environments, configuration and secrets management, reusable deployment patterns, and developer paved roads.
• Establish reliability and resilience practices including service-level objectives, observability, performance and capacity engineering, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and availability engineering.
• Own cloud financial management and continuously improve infrastructure utilization, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Establish and lead the enterprise major-incident management, incident-command, root-cause-analysis, and problem-management disciplines, ensuring systemic corrective actions are driven to closure.
• Partner with Information Security to build security requirements directly into cloud platforms, infrastructure, pipelines, access models, vulnerability management, and policy-as-code.
• Build durable internal ownership of critical platform capabilities, documentation, and operational knowledge while using external partners strategically.
• Apply AI and agentic tools to infrastructure automation, software delivery, observability, incident analysis, operational troubleshooting, documentation, and engineering productivity.

Background & Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive cloud, platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or related engineering experience, including significant leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience building or leading modern cloud/platform engineering capabilities supporting production software at scale.
• Deep knowledge of public-cloud architecture; Microsoft Azure experience strongly preferred.
• Strong technical experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, automated deployment, distributed systems, observability, containers/runtime platforms, networking, identity, secrets, and database operations.
• Demonstrated experience enabling continuous delivery, automated rollback, resilient architectures, and low/zero-downtime deployment practices.
• Strong experience with major-incident management, production reliability, root-cause analysis, and systematic problem management.
• Working knowledge of DevSecOps and secure cloud/platform engineering.
• High proficiency with modern AI-assisted engineering and agentic tools , with demonstrated ability to use them safely to accelerate automation, analysis, troubleshooting, coding, and operational improvement.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience. Relevant cloud/platform certifications are beneficial but not required.