Director of Platform Engineering & Cloud AI

Author Health, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Author Health, LLC is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead and transform our cloud-based patient care platform. You will drive architectural scale, high availability, and cost-efficiency while partnering with product, engineering and data teams to deliver secure, compliant infrastructure.

You will guide DevOps, security programs, and AI-enabled capabilities, ensuring platform reliability, performance, and governance across Google Cloud Platform components and IaC tooling.

Qualifications

• Experience leading platform engineering in a cloud-first environment.
• Proven ability to design scalable, secure cloud platforms.
• Strong collaboration with product, engineering and data teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a technology strategy for a scalable platform.
• Oversee DevOps and security programs (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2).
• Lead AI/automation initiatives for the platform.

Skills

GCP architecture

Terraform

Security compliance

Leadership

DevOps

AI capabilities

Database management

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

GitHub

Cloud Run

Cloud Armor

Job description

Author Health, LLC is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to lead and transform our cloud-based patient care platform. You will drive architectural scale, high availability, and cost-efficiency while partnering with product, engineering and data teams to deliver secure, compliant infrastructure.

You will guide DevOps, security programs, and AI-enabled capabilities, ensuring platform reliability, performance, and governance across Google Cloud Platform components and IaC tooling.