VP of Platform

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Platform Operations:

• Own infrastructure across current and target environments.
• Define and operate platform SLOs.
• Manage environment provisioning, access, capacity, and decommissioning.
• Reduce cloud waste through shared infrastructure, capacity discipline, and retention controls.

Target Platform:

• Build the shared platform foundation for Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Kong, observability, and CI/CD.
• Establish standards for deployments, secrets, networking, monitoring, tracing, and release automation.
• Make platform capabilities usable by domain teams without each team having to invent its own tooling.

Migration Engineering:

• Own the Oracle to Postgres migration pipeline with the migration engineering team.
• Define migration throughput, data validation, rollback readiness, and post-migration checks.
• Work with domain teams and principal QA on parity, shadow, pilot, and cutover readiness.

Security and Reliability:

• Build the security practice and baseline controls.
• Establish incident response, on-call, alerting, and production review practices.
• Drive SOC2 / ISO 27001 readiness where needed.

Team Building:

• Lead a distributed platform organization across infrastructure, DBA, security, DevOps/SRE, internal IT, and migration engineering.
• Hire senior platform, security, SRE, and DevOps talent where the current team has gaps.
• Grow junior engineers into a disciplined platform practice

Requirements:

• 15+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, database operations, or cloud operations.
• Experience leading teams of meaningful size and mixed seniority.
• Deep experience in at least two of Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Azure/AWS, Kafka, observability, or security operations.
• Experience running production systems while modernizing them.
• Strong understanding of multi-tenant SaaS operations, access control, reliability, and incident management.
• Hands-on comfort with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling.

Skills

Cloud, Infrastructure, kubernetes, platform