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 multi-cloud environment. The role builds and leads a high-performing global organization covering Developer Experience, Internal Developer Portals, DevOps, CI/CD platforms, Infrastructure Automation, Cloud Enablement, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). It oversees distributed teams across multiple regions and fosters engineering excellence, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. The position partners with Infrastructure, Security, Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Product Teams, and Business Leadership to deliver scalable, secure, cost-effective, developer-centric platforms. It also develops partnerships with cloud service providers, technology vendors, professional services organizations, and systems integrators. The Executive Director leads the shift from traditional infrastructure and operations models to modern platform engineering practices, including self-service capabilities, automation-first operations, and a platform-as-a-product mindset. The role drives measurable improvements in software delivery, reliability, developer productivity, and cloud economics, while ensuring a scalable, resilient, secure, and financially optimized engineering ecosystem across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressive technology leadership experience, including 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 driving 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 across 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.
- Continuously improve platform services through automation, standardization, and product-oriented delivery models.
- Partner with business leaders, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Product 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 KPIs measuring 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 modernization, automation, reliability engineering, and emerging technology initiatives.
- 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
- Eligible for a highly competitive bonus program, with the possibility of overachievement based on performance and company results.
- Eligible to participate 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 by the company.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
