Senior Director, Cloud Platform & Reliability Engineering
Share
Job Location:
Auckland - New Zealand
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
6 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Role Summary:
We are seeking a Senior Director to lead our cloud platform and reliability engineering strategy and execution. This role is accountable for building and operating a secure scalable and highly reliable cloud environment that enables engineering teams to deliver products faster and more safely.
This is a senior leadership position requiring deep cloud expertise strong operational discipline and the ability to influence across technology security and business teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and lead the cloud platform strategy including infrastructure reliability scalability and cost optimization.
- Drive run cost optimization strategy across infrastructure platforms and shared services ensuring cost efficiency without compromising reliability security or release velocity.
- Demonstrated experience operating and evolving largescale cloud environments with measurable scope such.
- Proven ownership of 24x7 production operations with strict SLOs/SLAs including availability latency error rates and recovery objectives (RTO/RPO).
- Experience managing complex operational concerns at scale including:
- Capacity planning and performance management
- Incident response for highseverity customerimpacting events
- Change management and release safety at scale
- Vendor and thirdparty service dependencies
- Build lead and mentor highperforming engineering teams across platform engineering cloud operations and site reliability.
- Drive an automationfirst operating model reducing manual work through Infrastructure as Code CI/CD enablement and standardized selfservice platforms.
- Own service reliability and operational excellence including incident management root cause analysis and longterm remediation.
- Partner with engineering product and security leaders to align platform capabilities with business priorities.
- Establish and enforce securebydesign practices for infrastructure applications and data.
- Implement strong observability standards (monitoring logging metrics alerting) to improve service health and decisionmaking.
- Define and validate resilience and disaster recovery strategies including failure testing and recovery readiness.
- Provide clear executivelevel reporting on platform health risks and roadmap progress.
- Manage thirdparty vendors and cloud service partners as needed.
- Ensure effective 24x7 operational coverage while continuously reducing operational burden through engineering improvements.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications :
Required Qualifications:
- 15 years of experience in engineering infrastructure cloud platform or site reliability roles with significant leadership responsibility
- Proven experience leading cloud platforms or cloudbased services at scale (AWS Azure or GCP)
- Demonstrated experience running production systems with high availability and reliability expectations
- Strong ability to lead in a matrixed crossfunctional environment
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to explain complex technical topics to senior leadership
- Strong technical foundation in:
- Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
- CI/CD and release engineering practices
- Monitoring logging and alerting systems
- Linux environments and scripting or programming (e.g. Python)
Additional Information :
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
About Company
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and b ... View more
