Director, Platform Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the multi-tenant Azure infrastructure strategy, focusing on the integration of legacy tenants into a unified governed foundation.

• Manage and progressively modernize the legacy estate, encompassing VM-based and Windows Server workloads.

• Oversee the transition from legacy platforms to contemporary solutions.

• Spearhead infrastructure-as-code and configuration management initiatives utilizing Terraform and Ansible.

• Direct CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

• Enhance consistency, security, and repeatability across different environments.

• Ensure production reliability, which includes monitoring, alerting, incident response, and recovery protocols.

• Propel the consolidation of GitHub Enterprise and the broader engineering tooling strategy.

• Lead the identity and access infrastructure strategy, focusing on migration to modern identity platforms.

• Collaborate with Security & Compliance leadership on infrastructure practices for sensitive resident and clinical data.

• Manage the cloud cost strategy and optimization efforts.

• Build and lead a platform/infrastructure engineering team, including recruitment, mentoring, and development.

• Assess and implement platform engineering practices and tools such as feature flagging and developer self-service.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in leading a platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE function, preferably having established or scaled the function rather than merely managing an existing one.

• Extensive hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, with a strong preference for Azure.

• Proficient in infrastructure-as-code and configuration management with Terraform and Ansible.

• Experience with CI/CD practices.

• Practical experience with legacy platforms, particularly VM-based workloads and Windows Server environments.

• Ability to navigate between legacy systems and modern platforms while ensuring system stability and security.

• Proven success in production reliability, incident response, observability, and minimizing operational toil.

• Experience in consolidating or migrating infrastructure across various environments or tenants, ideally within a multi-tenant SaaS framework.

• Capacity to function as both a working leader and a people leader.

• Familiarity with closely partnering with Security/Compliance functions, preferably in handling sensitive or regulated data.

• Comfortable operating in a lean, fast-paced mid-market environment with complete ownership.

• Bonus: experience in a multi-product or multi-tenant SaaS organization that has grown through acquisition or consolidation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits package.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Opportunities for professional development and growth.

• Engaging company culture focused on innovation and teamwork.