Global Cloud Platforms Leader — Platform Engineering & FinOps

The Coca-Cola Company

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 217,000 - 245,000

Full time

26 hours ago

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Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company is seeking a Senior Director, Global Cloud Platforms to lead the enterprise cloud strategy and platform engineering across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You will build a high-performing global cloud organization, drive modernization, governance, and FinOps, and partner with Digital Product, Cybersecurity, and Finance to enable rapid product delivery.

This role reports to the VP Infrastructure & Operations and oversees cloud governance, SRE, and platform services in a

Qualifications

12+ years of cloud computing, infrastructure platforms, or enterprise technology leadership.
Proven track record of leading global cloud transformation initiatives at scale.
Experience enabling AI and data platforms through scalable cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and cost-optimized cloud services.
Deep expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure architecture, and platform engineering principles.
Strong understanding of cybersecurity, risk management, and compliance in cloud environments.
Experience with financial management of cloud investments, including cost optimization and value realization practices.
Demonstrated ability to integrate cloud platforms with data, analytics, and AI capabilities.
Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global cloud organization through talent development, succession planning, coaching, and engineering excellence programs.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the enterprise cloud vision, roadmap, and operating model aligned with business objectives.
Lead multi-year cloud transformation and modernization initiatives across infrastructure, applications, data, and AI platforms.
Establish cloud governance, architecture standards, policies, and best practices.
Lead the transformation toward a Platform Engineering operating model, delivering self-service capabilities, reusable services, developer portals, and automation that accelerate digital product delivery.
Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on cloud strategy, technology investments, and emerging industry trends.
Lead teams responsible for cloud architecture, engineering, platform operations, SRE, infrastructure automation, and cloud security integration.
Build and operate scalable, secure, highly available cloud platforms across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
Establish enterprise self-service cloud platforms that improve developer productivity and accelerate delivery.
Oversee infrastructure-as-code, automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and platform reliability initiatives.
Drive standardization and reusable cloud services across business units.
Lead migration of legacy applications and infrastructure to cloud-based architectures.
Partner with application development teams to modernize platforms using microservices, containers, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, and API-first architectures.
Establish and scale cloud platform capabilities supporting enterprise AI, Generative AI, machine learning, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation workloads.
Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that improve agility, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
Partner closely with cybersecurity leadership to ensure cloud platforms meet enterprise security requirements.
Implement cloud security controls, identity and access management, encryption, monitoring, and compliance frameworks.
Ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and industry standards.
Drive continuous improvement in resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, and operational risk management.
Establish cloud financial governance and optimization programs.
Drive cloud cost transparency, chargeback/showback models, and resource optimization.
Manage cloud vendor relationships, contracts, and strategic partnerships.
Develop business cases and ROI models for cloud investments.
Develop integration between cloud platforms, data, analytics, and AI capabilities.