Founding Head of Application Platforms & DevOps

Floor & Decor; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Referral Bonus Program

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life ins.

Paid vacation and sick time

Paid holidays

Volunteer Time Off

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Floor & Decor is building an Application Platforms team in Atlanta to enable our developers with reliable, secure delivery. As founding leader, you will set the platform strategy, hire engineers, and personally build the first generation of services in an in-office role (3 days/wk).

You will design pipelines, tooling, and governance, partner with Internal Audit for SOX controls, and grow the team as a product-minded function focused on developer experience and deployment reliability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software or platform engineering with 3+ years leading engineers.
• Hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, GitHub, Argo.
• Strong tooling, testing, security scanning in pipelines.
• Knowledge of observability tools: Dynatrace, Grafana, OpsGenie.
• Kubernetes/container runtimes and API/messaging/streaming familiarity.
• Proven ability to build a team from a small base and deliver with limited resources.
• Excellent communication with engineers and senior stakeholders.
• Preferred: SOX/reg environment; cloud experience (Azure/AWS/GCP); platform-as-a-product mindset.

Responsibilities

• Set vision, roadmap, and operating model for Application Platforms.
• Design, build, and operate early CI/CD tooling while the team is small.
• Recruit, hire, and develop engineers; coach the team.
• Sequence work across five platform functions and make build/buy/partner decisions.
• Partner with app development leaders to gather requirements and measure adoption.
• Maintain SOX-compliant change/deployment controls with Internal Audit.
• Manage vendor relationships, licensing, and roadmap alignment.
• Define service levels, reliability targets, and cost for platform services.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Data, EA on standards.
• Establish self-service patterns and golden paths for developers.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps leadership

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Security scanning

Jenkins

GitHub

Argo

SOX compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

Argo

Dynatrace

Grafana

OpsGenie

Kubernetes

Job description

Floor & Decor is building an Application Platforms team in Atlanta to enable our developers with reliable, secure delivery. As founding leader, you will set the platform strategy, hire engineers, and personally build the first generation of services in an in-office role (3 days/wk).

You will design pipelines, tooling, and governance, partner with Internal Audit for SOX controls, and grow the team as a product-minded function focused on developer experience and deployment reliability.