Senior Platform Engineering Leader: Cloud Native & SDLC

Experian PLC; Malaysia; Hybrid; MYR 400,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Experian is seeking a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to lead enterprise-wide SDLC, CI/CD, and Cloud Native Foundations. You will set standards, guide cross-functional execution, and raise engineering productivity by shaping tooling strategy and developer experiences across teams.

Reporting to the Head of DevEx & AI Tooling, you will influence senior stakeholders and drive adoption of best practices in cloud platforms, IaC, and secure software delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related discipline with enterprise-scale delivery.
• Experience establishing engineering standards across developer tools and driving adoption through enablement.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise engineering standards for CI/CD, cloud platforms, and developer tooling to enable secure, consistent, and scalable software delivery.
• Design and maintain reusable automation patterns across GitHub Actions, Harness, IaC, and cloud-native platforms, embedding security, compliance, and quality controls by default.
• Establish cloud landing zone, provisioning, governance, and deployment standards across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI for efficient platform adoption.
• Partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to deliver self-service developer experiences, automated onboarding, and streamlined workflows.
• Measure and improve engineering effectiveness through DORA metrics, platform adoption insights, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

DevOps practices

Software delivery

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Artifactory

Confluence

Terraform/OpenTofu

Job description

Experian is seeking a Senior Director of Platform Engineering to lead enterprise-wide SDLC, CI/CD, and Cloud Native Foundations. You will set standards, guide cross-functional execution, and raise engineering productivity by shaping tooling strategy and developer experiences across teams.

Reporting to the Head of DevEx & AI Tooling, you will influence senior stakeholders and drive adoption of best practices in cloud platforms, IaC, and secure software delivery.