VP Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Platform Engineering and enterprise architecture strategy supporting growth and modernization.
• Lead CloudOps, SecOps, SRE, network, database, command center, and IT operations, building an accountable, high-performing organization.
• Own the architecture, scalability, security, reliability, and cost efficiency of cloud environment.
• Build self-service platforms and “golden paths” that enable autonomous engineering teams to deploy and operate services safely.
• Establish the infrastructure, permissions, guardrails, and governance that allow AI agents to perform operational work such as deployments, remediation, and infrastructure changes.
• Advance SRE, observability, incident management, disaster recovery, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and automated remediation.
• Drive infrastructure automation using Kubernetes, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and cloud-native technologies.
• Strengthen security operations through zero-trust controls, vulnerability management, automated threat response, and compliance with SOC 2 and PCI-DSS requirements.
• Own cloud and AI FinOps, including infrastructure optimization, capacity planning, and governance of inference and token costs.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience across Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, Security Operations, Enterprise Architecture, or related disciplines, including 8+ years in senior leadership.
• Deep experience with AWS, cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Proven success leading highly available, business-critical production platforms and 24/7 technology operations at scale.
• Experience building and leading teams across Platform Engineering, CloudOps, SRE, SecOps, networking, database, or related operational functions.
• Practical experience with AIOps, agentic tooling, AI infrastructure, or LLMOps, including the governance and guardrails required for safe production use.
• Strong knowledge of observability, incident management, disaster recovery, cloud networking, zero-trust security, and operational resilience.
• Experience owning technology budgets, cloud cost optimization, vendor strategy, and infrastructure investment decisions.