Platform Engineering & Product Strategy Leader

American Traffic Solutions; Mesa (AZ); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Verra Mobility seeks a Vice President of Product & Platform Engineering to lead strategy, architecture, and delivery of technology platforms enabling the company’s product operating model. This hands-on executive will own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security, and platform tooling to support scalable, reliable product development.

They will partner with Product and Engineering leaders to ensure architectural alignment across squads, drive platform-as-a-product adoption,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience (12+ years) in software engineering and platform/infrastructure leadership.
• Proven track record building and scaling cloud-native platforms and distributed systems.
• Deep technical expertise in cloud platforms, microservices, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, DevOps/SRE, observability, and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the long-term platform engineering strategy supporting the organization’s product roadmap and growth.
• Own the architecture and delivery of core platform capabilities, including infrastructure, developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and shared services.
• Establish a scalable, resilient cloud architecture and infrastructure foundation.
• Drive adoption of modern platform engineering practices such as internal developer platforms, platform-as-a-product, and self-service infrastructure.
• Own enterprise-level application and platform architecture.
• Define standards for system design, microservices architecture, APIs, and data architecture.
• Ensure platforms and services are designed for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to ensure architectural alignment across product squads.
• Enable the organization’s product squad/trio operating model by providing shared platform services, architecture frameworks, and developer tooling.
• Partner closely with Product Management, Product Design, and Engineering leaders to ensure squads can build and deploy quickly without reinventing core capabilities.
• Ensure teams have access to reusable components, APIs, and platform capabilities that accelerate delivery.
• Own DevOps strategy, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering productivity tooling.
• Drive improvements in developer experience, release velocity, and system reliability.
• Lead adoption of observability, monitoring, and incident management practices.
• Build a culture of automation, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure platform and infrastructure systems meet high standards of uptime, security, and compliance.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to embed secure-by-design engineering practices.
• Establish and maintain SRE and operational excellence practices.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud-native platforms

CI/CD

DevOps/SRE

Distributed systems

Microservices

API/service architectures

Infrastructure-as-Code

Observability

Security and compliance

Strategic communication

Leadership of engineering teams

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Verra Mobility seeks a Vice President of Product & Platform Engineering to lead strategy, architecture, and delivery of technology platforms enabling the company’s product operating model. This hands-on executive will own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, security, and platform tooling to support scalable, reliable product development.

They will partner with Product and Engineering leaders to ensure architectural alignment across squads, drive platform-as-a-product adoption,