Director, Cloud Delivery Platform

insightsoftware-posted 2 months ago

Full-time • Senior

1,001-5,000 employees

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We are seeking an experienced Director of Platform Engineering to lead our platform team in transforming how we deliver cloud infrastructure and operations services. This role will be instrumental in building and managing a modern Internal Developer Platform that enables our managed services teams through automation, self-service capabilities, and consultative engineering services.

Define and execute the platform engineering vision and roadmap, treating the platform as an internal product
Lead the transformation from manual processes to a highly automated, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) driven operating model
Establish platform product management practices, gathering requirements from development and operations teams
Drive adoption of self-service capabilities targeting a 1:50 platform-to-developer ratio
Build and lead a team of platform engineers, IaC specialists, and automation engineers
Implement agile/DevOps methodologies within the platform team using Scrum or Kanban frameworks
Develop comprehensive training and upskilling programs focused on IaC, Kubernetes, and cloud certifications
Foster a culture of automation-first thinking and continuous improvement
Oversee development of reusable IaC modules and templates (Terraform, Ansible, Packer, etc)
Implement golden paths and paved roads for common infrastructure patterns
Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline templates and GitOps workflows
Integrate platform capabilities with enterprise systems (identity, networking, monitoring, SIEM)
Partner with cloud ops managed services teams to eliminate operational toil through automation
Implement problem management processes
Develop self-service platform capabilities
Establish a consulting framework for complex cloud engineering projects
Provide architecture reviews and technical guidance for product teams
Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives
Enable knowledge transfer through documentation, runbooks, and training materials
Establish and track platform KPIs (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change failure rate)
Drive platform adoption metrics targeting >80% self-service deployments
Ensure 100% IaC coverage for new resources and >90% automation of routine tasks

Deep experience with Terraform, CloudFormation/CDK, ARM Templates/Bicep
Expert-level knowledge of AWS and Azure services, multi-cloud architectures
Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Docker, Helm
GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
Programming: Python, Bash/PowerShell, YAML/JSON

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