Director, Platform Engineering - Fintech Cloud Leader

Episode Six; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Episode Six in Austin is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering to lead DevOps and Platform Engineering, owning the in-house IaC and cloud infrastructure that powers payments for banks and fintechs worldwide. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes ownership, proactive planning, and mentoring a growing team.

You will drive Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Ansible, advance CI/CD, cost optimization, regulatory compliance (PCI DSS), and partner with operations, security and compliance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, infrastructure, platform or SRE, with 5+ years in people leadership
• Hands-on IaC and scripting with Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash
• Extensive experience operating production workloads on AWS
• Strong Linux background and production-grade Kubernetes experience
• Ability to lead troubleshooting of cross-cutting infrastructure issues under pressure
• Experience in cost optimization at scale and in regulated environments

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor DevOps engineers, setting priorities and development paths
• Own the roadmap, architecture, and IaC tooling for the E6 platform
• Adapt platform for new clients, markets, and regulatory requirements
• Plan upgrades across Kubernetes, OS, databases, and tooling; retire legacy components
• Own infrastructure cost management and partner with Finance
• Lead incident investigations and drive root cause analysis
• Improve CI/CD and release tooling for hosted and on-prem clients
• Maintain engineering practices: code reviews, testing, docs
• Collaborate with Platform Operations, InfoSec, and Compliance for PCI DSS compliance
• Represent Engineering with clients and auditors; support due diligence
• Report team objectives and platform health to leadership
• Travel occasionally to client sites and company events

Skills

Leadership

DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

AWS

Kubernetes

Linux

Communication

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Episode Six in Austin is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering to lead DevOps and Platform Engineering, owning the in-house IaC and cloud infrastructure that powers payments for banks and fintechs worldwide. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes ownership, proactive planning, and mentoring a growing team.

You will drive Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Ansible, advance CI/CD, cost optimization, regulatory compliance (PCI DSS), and partner with operations, security and compliance.