Senior Director, Platform Infrastructure

r1rcm; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus (25% target)

Competitive benefits package

Global team of 50+ engineers

Job summary

r1rcm is seeking an executive leader to define and drive a multi-year platform strategy, delivering modernization across cloud, automation, and reliability. You will lead a global team of 50+ engineers and coordinate with business, technology, security, and finance leaders to align technology investments with business priorities.

You will own the observability and tooling roadmap, manage operating and capital budgets, and pursue cost reductions while maintaining strong reliability and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• At least 12 years in technology engineering and operations, including at least 5 years in senior leadership.
• Leadership experience across platform engineering, observability or APM, and enterprise technology tooling.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, automation, infrastructure as code, DevOps, monitoring, and distributed systems.
• Experience with IT service management, incident and problem management, and disaster recovery.
• A track record of improving reliability, application performance, engineering productivity, or operational efficiency, plus strong executive communication and people leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Define a multi-year platform roadmap and translate business goals into capabilities, investments, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead platform modernization, cloud enablement, infrastructure as code, automation, and reusable engineering services.
• Establish reliability practices covering service indicators and objectives, resilience, availability, capacity, and disaster recovery.
• Own observability and enterprise tooling strategy across APM, DevOps, IT service management, incident response, and automation.
• Manage operating and capital budgets, forecast spending, prioritize investments, and pursue cost reductions across infrastructure, cloud, vendors, and software.
• Build and lead global engineering and operations teams; coordinate with business, technology, security, architecture, finance, and procurement leaders.

Skills

Platform engineering

Observability

Enterprise tooling

Executive communication

People leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Role overview

Set the strategy and lead delivery for enterprise platform infrastructure, aligning technology investments with business priorities. The role spans platform engineering, cloud and automation, reliability, observability, operational tooling, and financial planning, with responsibility for a global team of more than 50 people.

Responsibilities

• Define a multi-year platform roadmap and translate business goals into capabilities, investments, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead platform modernization, cloud enablement, infrastructure as code, automation, and reusable engineering services.
• Establish reliability practices covering service indicators and objectives, resilience, availability, capacity, and disaster recovery.
• Own observability and enterprise tooling strategy across application performance monitoring, DevOps, IT service management, incident response, and automation.
• Manage operating and capital budgets, forecast spending, prioritize investments, and pursue cost reductions across infrastructure, cloud, vendors, and software.
• Build and lead global engineering and operations teams; coordinate with business, technology, security, architecture, finance, and procurement leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• At least 12 years in technology engineering and operations, including at least 5 years in senior leadership.
• Leadership experience across platform engineering, observability or application performance monitoring, and enterprise technology tooling.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms, automation, infrastructure as code, DevOps, monitoring, and distributed systems.
• Experience with IT service management, incident and problem management, and disaster recovery.
• A record of improving reliability, application performance, engineering productivity, or operational efficiency, plus strong executive communication and people leadership skills.

Benefits and work setup

The listing gives a US base salary range of $152,163 to $289,353 per year and notes eligibility for an annual bonus with a 25% target. It also describes a competitive benefits package, without specifying individual benefit details.