Senior Director, Enterprise Infra & Azure Platform

LinkedIn; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 215,000 - 352,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn, based in Mountain View, CA, seeks a seasoned engineering leader to own strategy, execution, and outcomes for its enterprise infrastructure. This role covers global network, compute, storage, and Azure, including CI/CD platforms and departmental data pipelines.

You will drive reliability, security, velocity, and cost efficiency while partnering with InfoSec and cross-functional teams. Strong leadership and executive communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of infrastructure/software engineering experience with 8+ years of people management.
• Experience in global network, compute, storage, and Azure portfolios in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive a multi-year technical infrastructure vision across network, compute, storage, and Azure, balancing reliability, security, velocity, and cost efficiency.
• Own service reliability for global network, routing, firewall telemetry, and identity/access pathways.
• Drive AI transformation and automation for Infra, developer velocity, and operations.
• Partner with InfoSec to harden posture with high compliance across global interfaces.
• Lead Azure governance for tenants, subscriptions, and shared services; scale visibility dashboards, cost guardrails, and remediation workflows.
• Drive Zero Trust initiatives to modernize remote and enterprise access; coordinate cross-functional execution.
• Oversee Infra migrations with predictable delivery and minimal user impact.
• Provide direction for internal CI/CD platforms that serve enterprise applications to improve developer velocity.
• Help lead strategy and end-to-end delivery of corporate endpoint platforms and global VD for scalable device management.
• Scale org effectiveness across distributed teams; ensure strong on-call, runbooks, and incident leadership practices.
• Manage multi-vendor ecosystems, negotiate contracts, and align investments to business outcomes.
• Establish annual goals/OKRs and measurable outcomes tied to platform health, compliance, and TCO.

Skills

Infrastructure Engineering

Leadership

Azure Cloud

Storage

Networks

Education

BA./B.S. Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

Azure governance

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-Code

Platform observability

FinOps

Job description

LinkedIn, based in Mountain View, CA, seeks a seasoned engineering leader to own strategy, execution, and outcomes for its enterprise infrastructure. This role covers global network, compute, storage, and Azure, including CI/CD platforms and departmental data pipelines.

You will drive reliability, security, velocity, and cost efficiency while partnering with InfoSec and cross-functional teams. Strong leadership and executive communication are essential.