Director, Platform Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Build, lead, and cultivate the Platform Engineering organization, encompassing engineering strategy, roadmap, standards, and operational model.

• Spearhead the design and transformation of the enterprise Microsoft Azure platform, which includes landing zones, governance, identity, networking, security, observability, and resiliency.

• Facilitate the migration of applications and infrastructure from AWS and on-premises environments to Azure.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation as the standard method for provisioning and managing infrastructure.

• Create reusable Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines, reference architectures, and standardized deployment patterns.

• Develop self-service platform capabilities and golden paths to enhance developer productivity and minimize manual infrastructure provisioning.

• Collaborate with Network Engineering on hybrid cloud connectivity, cloud networking, Private Link, DNS, routing, firewalls, and application delivery.

• Work with SRE to define platform availability objectives, observability standards, resiliency practices, incident improvements, and operational readiness.

• Set consistent standards for application and platform telemetry, covering metrics, logs, distributed traces, dashboards, alerting, and service-level monitoring.

• Ensure that cloud and platform services are instrumented and integrated with the enterprise observability platform.

• Collaborate with Security to enforce secure-by-default platform patterns, cloud governance, policy enforcement, and compliance controls.

• Establish cloud cost-management and FinOps practices across Azure and remaining AWS environments.

• Recruit, mentor, and nurture engineering leaders and senior technical talent.

• Provide executive-level communication regarding platform strategy, technology risks, investments, reliability, and progress in cloud transformation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Platform Engineering, systems engineering, or related fields.

• Significant experience in engineering leadership roles.

• Profound technical expertise in Microsoft Azure, including enterprise cloud architecture, networking, security, governance, resiliency, and platform services.

• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code and automation, particularly with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based engineering workflows.

• Proven experience leading complex cloud transformation projects, including hybrid environments, enterprise cloud migrations, or modernization of critical infrastructure.

• Experience in building or leading an enterprise Platform Engineering organization or Internal Developer Platform.

• Familiarity with AWS and experience in supporting or migrating AWS workloads.

• Knowledge of Azure Landing Zones, Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, Azure Well-Architected Framework, and Azure Verified Modules.

• Experience with Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

• Familiarity with GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar DevOps platforms.

• Experience with enterprise observability and APM platforms, preferably Datadog, and technologies like OpenTelemetry.

• Experience implementing SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, resiliency engineering, and incident management.

• Experience in implementing cloud FinOps and cost optimization strategies.

• Experience operating technology platforms in healthcare, SaaS, financial services, or other regulated environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meaningful career growth opportunities.

• Inclusive benefits program focused on employees and their families.

• Tailored programs to address employees’ unique needs.

• Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace.

• Privacy and security protections for personal information.