Director – Platform & Infrastructure

• Lead and grow a distributed platform and infrastructure organization, staying hands-on with the team when issues arise.
• Drive infrastructure modernization and cloud migration initiatives, including moving services to managed cloud offerings.
• Own reliability, deployment, and disaster recovery practices across the organization's core environments.
• Set engineering standards for infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and operational resilience.
• Partner with engineering and senior leadership to translate platform strategy into practical roadmaps.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading technical or engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with a major cloud provider and modern infrastructure practices.
• A track record leading and developing teams, including through incidents and high-pressure situations.
• Experience working in a product-driven technology company.
• Comfort leading distributed, cross-regional teams.
• A direct, people-first leadership style focused on team growth and hands-on support.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading technical teams and driving infrastructure modernization initiatives, with a strong focus on cloud migration, reliability, and operational resilience. Proven ability to translate platform strategy into actionable roadmaps while fostering a people-first leadership approach.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Cloud Provider Experience
• Infrastructure Automation
• CI/CD Practices
• Team Leadership
• Disaster Recovery

Hard Skills

• Infrastructure Modernization
• Cloud Migration
• Reliability Engineering
• Deployment Practices
• Operational Resilience

Soft Skills

• People-First Leadership
• Team Growth
• Hands-On Support
• Cross-Regional Team Leadership

Industry Keywords

• Product-Driven Technology Company
• Distributed Platform
• Engineering Standards