Senior Director, Platform Engineering: SDLC & Cloud-Native

Experian; Malaysia; Hybrid; MYR 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Inclusive leave

People-first culture

Job summary

Experian is seeking a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to define and govern SDLC and cloud-native foundations. You will lead a team, drive cross-functional execution, and champion adoption of стандарds across the organization.

In this hybrid leadership role, you will partner with Infrastructure, Security, and AI teams to shape standard-based delivery, measure outcomes, and improve developer experience across multiple engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related fields.
• Experience designing and scaling CI/CD platforms and cloud-native solutions.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, IaC, developer tooling, and software supply chain security.
• Ability to influence teams and drive adoption across matrixed orgs.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain CI/CD standards and reusable pipeline templates across Harness and GitHub Actions.
• Embed security, quality, compliance, and AI workflow integrations into pipelines.
• Establish standards for deployment automation, observability, and progressive delivery.
• Define cloud landing zone standards, provisioning models, and IaC patterns.
• Lead cloud adoption across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI with cost-conscious approaches.
• Set standards across Jira, source control, Artifactory, Confluence, and related SDLC tooling.
• Partner with platform teams to deliver automated onboarding and self-service experience.

Skills

CI/CD platforms

Cloud-native infra

IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu)

Security & AI workflow

Developer tooling standards

Progressive delivery

Cost-aware infra design

Standards as a product

Stakeholder influence

Governance in tech bodies

Tools

Harness

GitHub Actions

Jira

Artifactory

Confluence

Terraform

Job description

Experian is seeking a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to define and govern SDLC and cloud-native foundations. You will lead a team, drive cross-functional execution, and champion adoption of стандарds across the organization.

In this hybrid leadership role, you will partner with Infrastructure, Security, and AI teams to shape standard-based delivery, measure outcomes, and improve developer experience across multiple engineering teams.