Remote Platform Engineering Leader

Madison-Davis, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 260,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison-Davis, LLC is seeking a Head of Platform Engineering for a large financial services firm in New York. The role is remote, permanent, and full-time, reporting to executive leadership.

You will lead cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and reliability engineering, guiding developer enablement and scalable systems. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in platform engineering and SRE, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, cloud-native stacks, and platform-as-a-product initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or SRE.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystems.
• Ability to be hands on and lead a team.
• Proven leadership experience managing large-scale engineering organizations.
• Experience operating in product-centric engineering environments.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or platform-as-a-product.
• Experience in high-growth environments.
• Experience with AI developer tooling or agentic AI workflows.
• Strong software engineering background in Python, Java, Go.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Strong observability and monitoring expertise.
• Experience leading large engineering organizations and scaling teams.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, containers, and infrastructure automation.
• Ability to communicate technical strategy across engineering and executive stakeholders.
• Experience with OpenStack or VMware.
• Exposure to policy-as-code frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale Platform Engineering and SRE organizations
• Define long-term cloud infrastructure and platform strategy
• Build product-oriented internal developer platforms
• Drive modernization of Kubernetes and cloud-native systems
• Improve observability, reliability, automation, deployment workflows
• Partner with leadership to improve developer experience and velocity
• Establish scalable operational standards and engineering best practices
• Mentor engineering leaders and scale organizational structure

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Leadership

Python

Java

Go

Infrastructure-as-Code

Observability

Distributed systems

OpenStack

VMware

Policy-as-code

CI/CD

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Job description

Madison-Davis, LLC is seeking a Head of Platform Engineering for a large financial services firm in New York. The role is remote, permanent, and full-time, reporting to executive leadership.

You will lead cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and reliability engineering, guiding developer enablement and scalable systems. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in platform engineering and SRE, with hands-on experience in Kubernetes, cloud-native stacks, and platform-as-a-product initiatives.