Executive Director, Cloud Platform Engineering
About The Position
The Executive Director, Cloud Platform Engineering is a senior technology leader responsible for defining and executing enterprise Platform Engineering strategy across a complex AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform environment. The role builds and leads a high-performing global organization responsible for Developer Experience, Internal Developer Portals, DevOps, CI/CD platforms, Infrastructure Automation, Cloud Enablement, and Site Reliability Engineering. It oversees distributed teams across multiple regions and promotes engineering excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The Executive Director partners with Infrastructure, Security, Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Product Teams, and Business Leadership to deliver scalable, secure, cost-effective, developer-centric platforms. The position also builds partnerships with cloud service providers, technology vendors, professional services organizations, and systems integrators to accelerate adoption and enterprise transformation. This leader drives the shift from traditional infrastructure and operations models to modern platform engineering, enabling self-service, automation-first operations, and measurable improvements in software delivery, reliability, developer productivity, and cloud economics. The role champions a platform-as-a-product mindset and aligns investments with business priorities while ensuring the engineering ecosystem is scalable, resilient, secure, and financially optimized.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience, including leadership of large-scale cloud and platform engineering organizations.
- 8+ years of direct people leadership experience managing managers and senior technical leaders.
- Proven experience building and leading Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Operations, or Developer Productivity organizations in complex global enterprises.
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise cloud transformations and operating multi-cloud environments.
- Proven track record of leading large-scale organizational change and technology modernization initiatives.
- Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior leadership and enterprise stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the enterprise Platform Engineering vision, strategy, roadmap, and operating model across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Establish standards, best practices, governance, and compliance for DevOps, CI/CD, Developer Experience, Internal Developer Portals, Infrastructure Automation, SRE, and Cloud FinOps.
- Drive adoption of modern engineering practices that improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and business outcomes.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a globally distributed organization of engineering leaders and technical professionals.
- Establish talent strategies, succession plans, and capability development programs.
- Foster accountability, continuous learning, inclusion, engineering excellence, and high performance.
- Deliver self-service platform capabilities, developer portals, and standardized engineering services that accelerate software delivery and reduce complexity.
- Lead adoption of DevOps, Agile, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and SRE practices.
- Improve platform services through automation, standardization, and product-oriented delivery models.
- Partner with business leaders and technology teams to align platform investments and resources with enterprise priorities.
- Manage capability-area risks, dependencies, and strategic initiatives while ensuring effective execution and delivery.
- Establish and track key performance indicators for platform adoption, service reliability, engineering productivity, operational excellence, and business value.
- Oversee secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud platform capabilities across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Drive Cloud FinOps practices, financial accountability, and continuous optimization of cloud investments.
- Lead transformation initiatives focused on modernization, automation, reliability engineering, and emerging technology adoption.
- Advise senior technology and business leadership on platform engineering strategy, cloud transformation, and engineering productivity.
- Build and manage strategic partnerships with cloud providers, technology vendors, professional services organizations, and system integrators.
- Communicate vision, priorities, risks, progress, and outcomes to executive stakeholders.
Benefits
- Participation in a highly competitive bonus program, with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.
- Participation in the share incentive plan.
- Health insurance coverage, including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Wellness and family support programs.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Retirement savings plans.
- Paid leave programs.
- Education-related programs.
- Paid holidays and vacation time.
- Many benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
