Director - Platform Engineering & Development Operations

FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow.

We deliver exceptional value every day to our customers with comprehensive services and products including network strategy, distribution center operational design and implementation, material handling automated equipment, robotics and a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services.

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Own, evolve, and operate the platform that powers FORTNA’s mission‑critical software. This is a hands‑on leadership role. You will personally design, build, and operate RHEL and Open Shift/Kubernetes platforms, establish a secure and scalable Git Ops delivery model, and measurably improve reliability, deployment velocity, and recovery outcomes for Tier‑1 services. You will set a high operational bar—automated, auditable, and secure by default—while enforcing strong governance, including no direct developer access to production.

• Design, build, upgrade, and operate RHEL fleets and Open Shift/Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and clusters.
• Own platform concerns end‑to‑end: networking, storage, identity, security policies, scaling, and HA/DR.
• Drive platform standardization through opinionated, well‑documented golden paths.

• Architect and operate the paved path:
  Git Hub Actions → Artifactory → Argo CD.
• Build reusable Git Hub Actions workflows and runners; manage artifact immutability, retention, and provenance.
• Operate Argo CD at scale: app‑of‑apps, sync waves, health checks, drift remediation, and secrets.
• Enable progressive delivery patterns where appropriate.

• Design and run VMware and/or Nutanix estates, including HA clusters, templates/golden images, micro‑segmentation, backup/restore, and capacity planning.

• Embed security by design into build and promotion pipelines, including SAST, DAST, secret scanning, image signing, SBOMs, and policy‑as‑code gates.

• Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Improve deployment frequency and MTTR.
• Lead incident response and drive blameless post‑mortems.
• Own DR objectives and testing cadence.

• Enforce no‑human‑in‑prod via RBAC, Git Ops controls, and auditable break‑glass procedures.
• Partner closely with Application Engineering, QA, Security, and Architecture.

• Lead, mentor, and grow Platform/Dev Ops/SRE engineers.
• Set quarterly OKRs and platform roadmaps.
• Drive adoption through reference architectures and enablement.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field;
  Master’s preferred.
• 10+ years in IT, with at least 5 years in platform engineering, Dev Ops, or SRE leadership.
• Linux:
  Recent, production‑grade RHEL administration and operations.
• Containers/Orchestration:
  Operating Open Shift (or enterprise Kubernetes) in production: cluster upgrades, operators, networking/ingress, quotas/limits, security contexts, multi‑cluster promotion.
• Git Ops & CD:
  Operating Argo CD in production (app‑of‑apps, sync waves/health, drift detection, secrets management; progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts/Flagger or equivalent).
• CI & Artifacts:
  Building/owning Git Hub Actions pipelines (reusable workflows, runners) and…