About this role:We are seeking an accomplished Technical Director of Platform Solutions Engineering with extensive experience in designing, automating, and operating enterprise-grade platforms at scale. This role demands a visionary leader who combines hands-on technical depth with strategic oversight to drive modernization, resilience, and innovation across hybrid cloud and containerized environments. You will set the technical direction for platform engineering, champion automation-first principles, and ensure secure, compliant, and highly available systems for mission-critical workloads in a regulated financial services environment.
You will lead initiatives to increase platform stability, maturity, and growth, ensuring predictable performance and operational excellence as adoption scales. A key responsibility will be defining and executing strategies for migrating workloads from virtual machines to containers, while providing developer-friendly tooling and abstractions that lower barriers to entry for application teams adopting Kubernetes. This includes curated Helm charts, GitOps-driven workflows, and self-service onboarding capabilities to accelerate adoption and reduce complexity.
Additionally, you will establish repeatable patterns for platform delivery using GitOps principles and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), leveraging API-driven declarative services to enable agility and consistency across environments. Your vision will include building self-service automation frameworks that empower end users-from platform provisioning to application deployment-ensuring speed, security, and compliance without sacrificing developer experience.
In this role, you will:- Define and execute the platform engineering strategy for hybrid cloud and container platforms, aligning with business objectives and regulatory requirements
- Architect scalable, secure, and automated solutions across on-premises and public cloud environments (Azure, GCP)
- Establish enterprise standards for Kubernetes operations, GitOps workflows, and repeatable platform patterns
- Drive platform maturity and stability through lifecycle best practices, observability, and proactive capacity planning
- Champion API-driven declarative services and automation frameworks to enable agility and consistency
- Oversee the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks using Terraform, Ansible, and similar tools
- Drive end-to-end automation for platform provisioning, configuration, and operational workflows to reduce manual intervention and improve reliability
- Implement advanced observability practices leveraging Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing for proactive performance management
- Develop migration strategies from VM-based workloads to containerized environments, ensuring minimal disruption and clear adoption paths
- Build developer-friendly automation and APIs that enable low-friction deployment from platform provisioning to application rollout
- Provide tooling and abstractions that simplify Kubernetes adoption for application teams, including curated templates, Helm charts, and self-service onboarding
- Promote GitOps-driven delivery for platform and application lifecycle management to ensure consistency and compliance
- Lead and mentor a team of senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement
- Collaborate with security, networking, and application teams to ensure robust security posture and adherence to industry regulations
Required Qualifications- 8+ years of Technology Strategic Leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- 4+ years of management or leadership experience
- 8+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering
- 5 years of enterprise-scale Kubernetes deployments and container orchestration
- 5+ years of experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux) and declarative infrastructure patterns
- 5+ years of experience of networking, security hardening, and compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI DSS, SOX)
Preferred Qualifications- Proven expertise in:
- Hybrid cloud architecture and operations (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Infrastructure automation and IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
- Strong proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
- Experience in regulated environments (Financial Services or similar)
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Knowledge of service mesh, distributed systems, and high-availability architectures
- Expertise in observability platforms and performance tuning at scale
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Job Expectations:- This position does not offer Visa sponsorship or the transfer of sponsorship
- This position has a hybrid work schedule
Posting End Date: 18 Dec 2025
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