Senior Director - Cloud Platform Engineering

About This Role

This role involves strategic, operational, and execution ownership for site, infrastructure, and cloud platform services, focusing on production reliability and stability. The Senior Director will also lead the full lifecycle of infrastructure transformation, including data center exit and AWS migration, while building a robust operating model and leadership bench.

Responsibilities

• Personally own and execute end-to-end data center exit and AWS migration, from planning through decommissioning
• Define migration waves, readiness gates, and cutover plans with explicit transition into steady-state ownership
• Own architectural decisions across AWS networking, compute, storage, security, and observability
• Establish and own the post-migration operating model for cloud infrastructure and platforms
• Ensure migration execution does not introduce long-term operational debt and workloads transition cleanly
• Own the vision, roadmap, and execution for the company’s cloud platform, focusing on long-term operations on AWS
• Modernize legacy systems and architect for Multi-Tenant SaaS, enabling secure and efficient scaling across tenants
• Own and evolve the end-to-end incident management lifecycle for infrastructure and platform services
• Serve as the executive escalation owner for Sev 0 and Sev 1 incidents, leading response and executive communications
• Build and maintain a US-based SRE and incident leadership bench

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure, Cloud, SRE, or platform engineering
• 7+ years leading large engineering organizations (managers of managers or equivalent)
• Direct, hands-on leadership of at least one full data center exit and AWS migration
• Deep technical expertise in AWS, including VPC networking, EC2, EKS/Kubernetes, RDS/Aurora, S3, IAM, and observability tooling
• Strong experience operating highly available, distributed systems using SRE principles
• Proven ability to lead complex, high-risk infrastructure transformations in production environments
• Expertise in FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices
• Demonstrated ability to drive standards and adoptions across distributed engineering teams without relying on reporting lines
• Skillful operating as a front-line executive leader during critical situations

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in infrastructure, Cloud, SRE, or platform engineering; 7+ years leading large engineering organizations.

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits