Director - Platform Engineering

Michael Page; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits and wellness

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

Michael Page is seeking an experienced Director of Platform Engineering to lead strategy, modernization, reliability, and production support for a mission-critical fixed income electronic trading platform in Midtown Manhattan.

This role drives cloud transformation across AWS and Azure, implements SRE and DevOps practices, and ensures high availability in a global trading environment while mentoring high-performing teams.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Production Support.
• Experience managing mission-critical production environments with high availability.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategic vision for platform engineering and production support.
• Lead Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Production Support teams for front-office trading applications.
• Drive platform modernization across Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Develop and implement reliability, observability, monitoring, and incident management frameworks.
• Own platform stability, resilience, and service availability in production environments.
• Lead cloud transformation initiatives across AWS and Azure.
• Establish CI/CD, automation, and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Partner with trading, architecture, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable solutions.
• Oversee major incident management and continuous improvement programs.
• Drive operations excellence through KPI measurement and capacity planning.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy

SRE

DevOps

Production Support

KPI & SLA

Observability

Performance Tuning

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Director of Platform Engineering to lead the strategy, modernization, reliability, and production support functions for a mission-critical fixed income electronic trading platform. This leadership role will drive cloud transformation, DevOps, SRE, and operational excellence initiatives while ensuring the stability and performance of a global trading environment.

Our client is a leading global financial institution with a strong presence across capital markets, investment banking, and financial services. The firm is investing heavily in modern engineering practices and cloud-native technologies to support the continued growth of its electronic trading capabilities and deliver highly resilient platforms to clients worldwide.

Description

As Director of Platform Engineering, you will lead the teams responsible for platform engineering, site reliability, DevOps, and production support across critical fixed income trading systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Define and execute the strategic vision for platform engineering and production support functions.
• Lead Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Production Support teams supporting front-office trading applications.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives across Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, and containerized environments.
• Develop and implement reliability, observability, monitoring, and incident management frameworks.
• Own platform stability, resilience, operational readiness, and service availability across production environments.
• Lead cloud transformation initiatives across both AWS and Azure.
• Establish DevOps best practices, CI/CD standards, automation frameworks, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Partner closely with trading, application development, architecture, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable and highly available solutions.
• Oversee major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous improvement programs.
• Drive operational excellence through KPI measurement, SLA management, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering and production support teams.

Profile

Extensive leadership experience within Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or Production Support organizations.

Strong understanding of fixed income, electronic trading, capital markets, or front-office trading systems.

Proven experience managing mission-critical production environments with high availability requirements.

Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration technologies.

Strong experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms.

Demonstrated success implementing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices.

Expertise in production support, incident management, operational governance, and service management practices.

Experience building CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automation frameworks, and cloud-native architectures.

Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, logging, and performance engineering.

Exceptional stakeholder management and leadership capabilities.

Location: Midtown Manhattan, NY.

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 3 days per week in the office.

Job Offer

Base salary of $200,000 - $235,000

Opportunity to lead a large-scale Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and Production Support organization.

High-profile role supporting business-critical fixed income electronic trading platforms.

Exposure to enterprise cloud transformation initiatives across AWS and Azure.

Strong career progression opportunities within a global financial institution.

Comprehensive benefits package including health, retirement, and wellness programs.

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.