Senior Director, Autonomous Platform Engineering

A&E Television Networks, LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 208,547 - 244,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) matching

Other benefits

Job summary

A+E Global Media in New York seeks a Senior Director to define and drive the enterprise Platform Engineering strategy across Consumer Products and Corporate Technology. You will lead automated, AI-enabled engineering programs to accelerate delivery, improve developer productivity, and ensure secure, scalable services worldwide.

The role oversees Platform Engineering, Site Reliability, and security operations, coupling strategic investments with an enterprise roadmap and executive-level

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Progressive leadership experience managing enterprise Platform Engineering and DevSecOps.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams.
• Demonstrated success building modern cloud-native engineering platforms.
• Deep understanding of Platform Engineering, SRE, security, cloud infrastructure, and automation.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled software development capabilities and autonomous practices.
• Experience managing enterprise technology budgets and vendor relationships.
• Strong executive communication and organizational transformation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise Platform Engineering strategy.
• Lead the evolution of engineering platforms for developer experience, scalability, and efficiency.
• Establish enterprise standards for platform architecture, automation, and delivery.
• Drive adoption of IDPs, IaC, cloud platform engineering, Kubernetes, and release engineering.
• Build reusable engineering capabilities enabling secure and efficient delivery.
• Provide leadership, budgeting, and vendor management.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevSecOps

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

AI-enabled development

Executive communication

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's preferred

Job description

Job Description

Senior Director, Autonomous Platform Engineering – A+E Global Media.

This is an exciting transformational leadership opportunity for a technology leader who is passionate about redefining how software is built, deployed, and supported through innovative technologies, Artificial Intelligence, automation, and modern platform engineering practices. If you are energized by building next‑generation engineering capabilities and leading organizations through technology transformation, this is the role for you.

The Senior Director, Autonomous Platform Engineering will define and execute the enterprise Platform Engineering strategy supporting both Consumer Products and Corporate Technology. Reporting to the Vice President, Digital Product Engineering & Enterprise Infrastructure, this leader will drive the evolution from traditional DevSecOps to an AI‑enabled, autonomous engineering ecosystem that accelerates software delivery, improves developer productivity, strengthens operational excellence, and enables the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence throughout the software development lifecycle.

This role is accountable for the strategy, architecture, engineering, operational support, and continuous evolution of enterprise engineering platforms. The successful candidate will ensure these platforms are designed and built to the highest standards and are operated, supported, and continually improved to provide secure, scalable, resilient, and reliable services for engineering teams worldwide.

The leader will oversee global teams responsible for Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Application Security, and platform operations while managing strategic technology investments, vendor partnerships, and the enterprise platform roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise Platform Engineering strategy supporting Consumer Products and Corporate Technology.
• Lead the evolution of engineering platforms that improve developer experience, platform consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Establish enterprise standards for platform architecture, engineering automation, and software delivery.
• Drive adoption of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), Infrastructure as Code, cloud platform engineering, Kubernetes, container platforms, release engineering, environment management, artifact repositories, secrets management, observability platforms, and platform networking.
• Build reusable engineering capabilities that enable product teams to deliver software securely and efficiently.
• Provide leadership, people management, budgeting, and vendor management.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (Master’s preferred) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent academic or professional experience.
• Progressive leadership experience managing enterprise Platform Engineering and DevSecOps organizations.
• Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams.
• Demonstrated success building modern cloud‑native engineering platforms.
• Deep understanding of Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Application Security, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, and engineering automation.
• Experience implementing AI‑enabled software development capabilities and autonomous engineering practices.
• Experience managing enterprise technology budgets and strategic vendor relationships.
• Strong executive communication and organizational transformation skills.

Compensation

Annual Pay Range: $208,547 – $244,000. Annual Incentive Target: 20.00%.

A+E offers a competitive total compensation package, which includes healthcare coverage, 401(k) matching, and other benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

A+E Global Media proudly provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants and makes employment decisions consistent with this principle. The company’s employment actions and decisions – including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, compensation, transfer, layoff, and termination – are made without regard to an employee’s race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, alienage or citizenship status, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, family and medical leave status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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