Director, Platform Engineering — AWS & Hybrid Infra

InvestCloudOct2024; New York (NY, NJ); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Rx

Dental

Vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

InvestCloud is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to own the strategy, roadmap, and execution of our shared platform capabilities across on-prem and AWS. You will lead a team of platform engineers and managers responsible for core platform services, AWS architecture, and IaC, while guiding the shift of operations to Bangalore.

This hands-on leadership role combines strategy with hands-on design and implementation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or SRE roles, including significant AWS experience.
• 5+ years in multi-team or multi-region leadership roles, including managing managers and/or large platform charters.
• Demonstrated ownership of platform roadmaps and measurable improvements in reliability, delivery speed, and/or cost.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year platform engineering strategy and roadmap, aligned to Tech Operations, Product, and business priorities.
• Define and maintain platform standards, reference architectures, and guardrails for application delivery, CI/CD, infrastructure, networking, and access.
• Chair or co-chair platform architecture and change forums for high-impact initiatives, including major AWS changes, CI/CD upgrades, GitLab/Artifactory patterns, and edge and ingress models.
• Evaluate and steer adoption of key platform technologies, including AWS services, GitLab, Terraform, and observability tooling, balancing reliability, security, and cost.
• Lead AWS platform architecture for shared services and application workloads, including multi-account structure, landing zones, environment segmentation, shared services, centralized logging, and security.
• Guide teams in designing and implementing solutions on AWS, including networking, IAM, core services, and edge patterns.
• Partner with Server Ops and Network Engineering on hybrid patterns spanning on-prem data centers, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud-native services.
• Work with FinOps and Finance to support capacity planning, cost visibility, and optimization for platform services.
• Drive standardization on IaC frameworks, primarily Terraform, for AWS and platform components, including opinionated modules, versioning, and governance.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines, such as GitLab or equivalent, support secure, consistent delivery of infrastructure and application changes across environments.
• Promote automation-first approaches for provisioning, configuration, and change execution, reducing manual work and operational risk.
• Define and enforce patterns for configuration management, secrets management, and policy-as-code in the platform stack.
• Provide leadership over core platform operations, including environment lifecycle and configuration, platform change management, and on-call integration.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps leadership

AWS experience

IaC (Terraform)

CI/CD (GitLab)

Security & Compliance

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Kubernetes

Job description

InvestCloud is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to own the strategy, roadmap, and execution of our shared platform capabilities across on-prem and AWS. You will lead a team of platform engineers and managers responsible for core platform services, AWS architecture, and IaC, while guiding the shift of operations to Bangalore.

This hands-on leadership role combines strategy with hands-on design and implementation.