EMEA App Platform Director: Cloud-Native & Automation

MetLife Poland; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 317,000 - 486,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work with flexible hours

Annual performance bonus

Vacation bonus

Private medical subscription

Special day off

Job summary

MetLife Poland, based in Warsaw, is transforming its regional IT landscape. The EMEA App Platform Technologies Director defines the regional strategy for container platforms, databases, middleware, and cloud platform engineering across on‑prem and cloud environments, ensuring resilient, compliant, and cost‑optimized platforms.

You will lead regional teams, set the platform roadmap and automation/observability patterns, and collaborate with global architecture to accelerate cloud adoption,

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a technical field and/or relevant professional certifications underpin leadership of enterprise platform services.
• Kubernetes-based platforms (OpenShift, AKS, EKS, GKE) for orchestration and platform operations.
• Public cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) with Infrastructure-as-Code and security/observability focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional teams and portfolio covering container platforms, databases, middleware, and cloud platform engineering; align with global architecture and standards.
• Create the EMEA platform roadmap, standards, and automation/observability patterns to drive performance and security.
• Oversee on-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud container platforms ensuring high availability and compliance.
• Manage enterprise database services, middleware technologies, incident/problem/change processes, and SRE practices.
• Develop operational KPIs, enforce SLAs, drive standardization, IaC, observability, and FinOps.
• Coordinate with application teams, enterprise architects, security, and cloud governance for migrations and disaster recovery.

Skills

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

DevOps mindset

Matrix organization experience

Education

Master’s in Computer Science/Engineering

CKA/CKAD

AWS/Azure/GCP Architect

ITIL

PMP

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

AKS/EKS/GKE

Terraform/Ansible/Helm/CloudFormation

CI/CD tooling

Job description

MetLife Poland, based in Warsaw, is transforming its regional IT landscape. The EMEA App Platform Technologies Director defines the regional strategy for container platforms, databases, middleware, and cloud platform engineering across on‑prem and cloud environments, ensuring resilient, compliant, and cost‑optimized platforms.

You will lead regional teams, set the platform roadmap and automation/observability patterns, and collaborate with global architecture to accelerate cloud adoption,