Sr. Director, Platform Engineering

Medisolv•Clarksville, MD

About The Position

Medisolv is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to lead its Platform Engineering team and strategy. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this role will keep production reliable, support the product roadmap, modernize the platform, and help the company scale. The leader will coach and develop the team, delegate effectively, remain close to technical decisions, address technical debt, drive platform innovation, and participate in architecture reviews across the technology stack. The role also serves as a technical advisor to senior leadership. The position owns the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of Medisolv’s Azure-based platform, including cloud infrastructure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), networking, governance, security, monitoring, observability, incident response, and operational readiness. It establishes and matures automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitOps, Platform Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering practices; supports enterprise data platforms such as Databricks and Spark; and works across Engineering, Security, Data Engineering, and Product. The leader will also oversee cloud cost optimization and FinOps and establish platform metrics, operational KPIs, SLAs, and SLOs. During the first 30 days, the role will build familiarity with the team, platform, Azure infrastructure, AKS environment, CI/CD pipelines, and operational posture, while meeting cross-functional leaders. By 60 days, the leader will begin shaping the roadmap and operating model, identify technical debt, reliability risks, and cost inefficiencies, and establish baseline metrics. By 90 days, the leader will independently own the platform engineering strategy and team and drive initiatives in reliability, automation, cloud governance, and cost optimization.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including leading managers and technical teams.
Deep expertise with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native architectures.
Strong experience building and operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platforms.
Experience with GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
Strong experience with Azure networking, cloud security, and governance.
Strong operational experience with monitoring, observability, incident management, and platform reliability.
Experience leading cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives.
Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders.
Must successfully pass a pre-employment background check.
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; sponsorship is not available.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with GitOps practices and tools.
Experience supporting Databricks environments and Spark-based workloads.
Experience in healthcare, SaaS, or another regulated industry.
Familiarity with HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, or similar compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

Define and execute Medisolv’s platform engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
Lead and develop the Platform Engineering team responsible for cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, developer tooling, and operational excellence.
Advise senior leadership on platform, infrastructure, and operational strategy.
Own the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of the Azure-based platform.
Oversee Azure networking, cloud governance, security, and compliance initiatives.
Lead monitoring, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and operational readiness programs.
Drive standardization, automation, and Infrastructure as Code practices across engineering teams.
Establish and mature CI/CD, GitOps, Platform Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
Support and optimize enterprise data platforms, including Databricks and Spark-based workloads.
Partner with Engineering, Security, Data Engineering, and Product leaders on business and technology priorities.
Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives.
Establish platform and reliability metrics, operational KPIs, SLAs, and SLOs.
Participate in architecture reviews across the technology stack.
Address technical debt and platform reliability risks while driving platform innovation.