Director, Platform Engineering & Cloud Automation

Versant Health, Inc.; City of Troy, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off & holidays

Retirement with employer contribution

Professional development opportunities

Flexible work arrangements

Employee assistance programs

Diversity and inclusion programs

Job summary

Versant Health is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to drive the strategy, delivery, and modernization of our enterprise platform across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and container environments. You’ll lead architecture decisions, champion IaC, and build a high-performing team that delivers secure, reusable platform services.

The role requires a deep technical background with 10+ years of experience and strong leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required; 10+ years of experience preferred.
• Enterprise modernization with automation/IaC in hybrid cloud or container platforms.
• Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, Rancher, Tanzu or similar.
• Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure deployment standards experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise platform engineering strategy and modernization roadmap.
• Lead Platform Engineering team, establish service portfolio and practices.
• Deliver reusable platform services across hybrid cloud and container platforms.
• Advance IaC, GitOps, CI/CD, and self-service provisioning to reduce manual work.
• Provide technical direction for cloud and container platforms (Azure, AWS, OpenShift).
• Embed security, access control, secrets management, and compliance into designs.
• Own engineering lifecycle and operational health of Platform Engineering portfolio.
• Establish performance measures for adoption, reliability, and audit readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture leadership

IaC

Cloud platforms

Security integration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

AKS

EKS

Rancher

Tanzu

Terraform

Ansible

Git-based workflows

CI/CD

Job description

Versant Health is seeking a Director of Platform Engineering to drive the strategy, delivery, and modernization of our enterprise platform across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and container environments. You’ll lead architecture decisions, champion IaC, and build a high-performing team that delivers secure, reusable platform services.

The role requires a deep technical background with 10+ years of experience and strong leadership.