Director, Platform Enablement

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Tennessee.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the i3 Platform as an internal product, maintaining a published roadmap, a prioritized backlog, and a regular schedule of delivered capabilities.

• Formulate and implement the technology organization's platform strategy in alignment with business objectives.

• Collaborate with Solution Architecture to uphold reference architectures based on the i3 Well-Architected Framework.

• Define and monitor platform KPIs such as self-service ratio, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) coverage, mean time to provision, policy violation rate, and platform adoption.

• Manage relationships with cloud service providers and platform tooling vendors effectively.

• Communicate the platform roadmap, KPIs, and investment rationale to senior technology leadership.

• Ensure consistent operating models, toolchains, and standards across AWS and Azure environments.

• Actively contribute to architectural decisions, infrastructure code reviews, and the resolution of complex technical challenges.

• Own and enhance the Terraform and Scalr Infrastructure as Code ecosystem, including module and artifact registries.

• Create reference implementations, templates, and accelerators for engineering teams.

• Promote an "Everything as Code" approach across infrastructure, configuration, policy, security controls, pipelines, and runbooks.

• Establish technical standards for the enterprise and implement security and compliance measures at the platform level.

• Conduct technical assessments, pinpoint optimization opportunities and technical debt, and lead proof-of-concept projects.

• Build, lead, and cultivate a high-performing Engineering team.

• Set performance expectations, conduct performance calibrations, and maintain individual development plans.

• Recruit, coach, mentor, and nurture engineering talent.

• Uphold quality standards, templates, and review processes for Cloud Engineers and delivery teams.

• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Cybersecurity, and Service Operations teams.

• Provide observability tools for 24/7/365 monitoring and incident response.

• Advocate for architectural thinking, technical excellence, continuous improvement, governance, reliability, and efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent demonstrated experience.

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps/SRE disciplines.

• Transition from hands-on engineering roles into technical leadership positions.

• Proven experience in architecting and managing large-scale, production-grade enterprise infrastructure.

• Experience in influencing technical direction and establishing platform standards across multiple teams.

• Proven track record of leading significant platform or infrastructure initiatives from concept to delivery.

• Exceptional leadership, people management, verbal communication, and written communication skills.

• Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving skills.

• Capacity to convert business objectives into a robust platform strategy.

• Demonstrated experience in coaching and developing engineering talent.

• Extensive knowledge of AWS and/or Azure and multi-cloud architectures.

• Proficient understanding of Infrastructure as Code, including module development, state management, and governance at scale.

• Mastery of Terraform or similar tools.

• Knowledge of networking, security, and infrastructure technologies.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC2, PCI, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and CJIS.

• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS/AKS, serverless architectures, and integration patterns.

• Programming proficiency in Python, Golang, or another comparable general-purpose language.

• Experience managing Linux and Windows-hosted workloads in cloud environments.

• Ability to review application code, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Relevant AWS or Azure certifications, or proven expertise in the Well-Architected Framework.

• Preferred: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

• Preferred experience with AWS/Azure parity, multi-team or multi-cloud consolidation, multi-year platform roadmaps, vendor management, architecture review processes, internal developer platforms, Terraform + Scalr, high availability, disaster recovery, FinOps, observability, SRE, incident response, AI-assisted engineering, and AI workload platforms.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility to work remotely.

• Occasional travel for conferences, strategic planning sessions, and key stakeholder meetings.

• Opportunities for professional development and individual growth plans.

• Coaching and mentoring programs for engineering talent.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.