Director, Platform Engineering

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The Director, Platform Engineering will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution of Invest Cloud’s shared platform capabilities across on-prem and AWS. This role provides both technical and people leadership across environments, infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform services that support mission‑critical client workloads.

You will lead a team of platform engineers and managers responsible for core platform services, AWS architecture, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), while also helping to advance our operational shift to Bangalore. This is a hands‑on leadership role: you will own strategy and roadmap, but you are also expected to dive into the details, help resolve critical issues, and directly contribute to design and implementation when needed.

The Director is accountable for platform reliability, scalability, security, cost efficiency, and developer experience, partnering closely with Application Engineering, Product, Server Ops, Network, Info Sec, and Corporate Support. This is a hybrid role with regular on‑site time to stay tightly aligned with Platform, Server Ops, Product, and other key stakeholders.

• Own the multi-year platform engineering strategy and roadmap, aligned to Tech Operations, Product, and business priorities.
• Define and maintain platform standards, reference architectures, and guardrails for application delivery, CI/CD, infrastructure, networking, and access.
• Chair or co-chair platform architecture and change forums for high-impact initiatives, including major AWS changes, CI/CD upgrades, Git Lab/Artifactory patterns, and edge and ingress models.
• Evaluate and steer adoption of key platform technologies, including AWS services, Git Lab, Terraform, and observability tooling, balancing reliability, security, and cost.
• Lead AWS platform architecture for shared services and application workloads, including multi-account structure, landing zones, environment segmentation, shared services, centralized logging, and security.
• Guide teams in designing and implementing solutions on AWS, including:
• Networking: VPC, Transit Gateway, peering, routing, and security groups
• Identity & Access: IAM roles, SSO integrations, and least‑privilege models
• Core Services: S3, RDS, caching, messaging, and related patterns
• Edge & Ingress: integration with NGINX/other edge components and DNS/TLS standards
• Partner with Server Ops and Network Engineering on hybrid patterns spanning on-prem data centers, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud-native services.
• Work with Fin Ops and Finance to support capacity planning, cost visibility, and optimization for platform services.

• Drive standardization on IaC frameworks, primarily Terraform, for AWS and platform components, including opinionated modules, versioning, and governance.
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines, such as Git Lab or equivalent, support secure, consistent delivery of infrastructure and application changes across environments.
• Promote automation-first approaches for provisioning, configuration, and change execution, reducing manual work and operational risk.
• Define and enforce patterns for configuration management, secrets management, and policy-as-code in the platform stack.

• Environment lifecycle and configuration
• Platform change management and runbooks
• On-call integration with broader Tech Ops
• Partner with regional leads to advance the operational shift to Bangalore, including:
• Defining scope and ownership for Bangalore-based run/operate functions
• Building repeatable workflows, documentation, and handoffs that enable follow‑the‑sun operations
• Ensuring strong alignment between NA/EU and Bangalore teams on priorities, standards, and escalation paths
• Maintain a strong incident management and post‑incident review culture for platform-related issues.

• Set and maintain SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for key platform services.
• Ensure robust…