Technology Director Platform Solutions Leader

About this role:

We are seeking an accomplished Technical Director of Platform Solutions Engineering with extensive experience in designing automating and operating enterprise-grade platforms at scale. This role demands a visionary leader who combines hands-on technical depth with strategic oversight to drive modernization resilience and innovation across hybrid cloud and containerized environments. You will set the technical direction for platform engineering champion automation-first principles and ensure secure compliant and highly available systems for mission-critical workloads in a regulated financial services environment.

You will lead initiatives to increase platform stability maturity and growth ensuring predictable performance and operational excellence as adoption scales. A key responsibility will be defining and executing strategies for migrating workloads from virtual machines to containers while providing developer-friendly tooling and abstractions that lower barriers to entry for application teams adopting Kubernetes. This includes curated Helm charts GitOps-driven workflows and self-service onboarding capabilities to accelerate adoption and reduce complexity.

Additionally you will establish repeatable patterns for platform delivery using GitOps principles and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) leveraging API-driven declarative services to enable agility and consistency across environments. Your vision will include building self-service automation frameworks that empower end usersfrom platform provisioning to application deploymentensuring speed security and compliance without sacrificing developer experience.

In this role you will:

• Define and execute the platform engineering strategy for hybrid cloud and container platforms aligning with business objectives and regulatory requirements
• Architect scalable secure and automated solutions across on-premises and public cloud environments (Azure GCP)
• Establish enterprise standards for Kubernetes operations GitOps workflows and repeatable platform patterns
• Drive platform maturity and stability through lifecycle best practices observability and proactive capacity planning
• Champion API-driven declarative services and automation frameworks to enable agility and consistency
• Oversee the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks using Terraform Ansible and similar tools
• Drive end-to-end automation for platform provisioning configuration and operational workflows to reduce manual intervention and improve reliability
• Implement advanced observability practices leveraging Prometheus Grafana and distributed tracing for proactive performance management
• Develop migration strategies from VM-based workloads to containerized environments ensuring minimal disruption and clear adoption paths
• Build developer-friendly automation and APIs that enable low-friction deployment from platform provisioning to application rollout
• Provide tooling and abstractions that simplify Kubernetes adoption for application teams including curated templates Helm charts and self-service onboarding
• Promote GitOps-driven delivery for platform and application lifecycle management to ensure consistency and compliance
• Lead and mentor a team of senior engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence innovation and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with security networking and application teams to ensure robust security posture and adherence to industry regulations

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education
• 4 years of management or leadership experience
• 8 years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering
• 5 years of enterprise-scale Kubernetes deployments and container orchestration
• 5 years of experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD Flux) and declarative infrastructure patterns
• 5 years of experience of networking security hardening and compliance frameworks (e.g. PCI DSS SOX)

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven expertise in:
  • Hybrid cloud architecture and operations (AWS Azure GCP)
  • Infrastructure automation and IaC (Terraform Ansible)
• Strong proficiency in scripting and automation (Python Bash PowerShell).
• Experience in regulated environments (Financial Services or similar)
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of service mesh distributed systems and high-availability architectures
• Expertise in observability platforms and performance tuning at scale
• Exceptional leadership communication and stakeholder management skills

Job Expectations:

• This position does not offer Visa sponsorship or the transfer of sponsorship
• This position has a hybrid work schedule

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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