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developer capabilities, golden paths, engineering templates, and developer portals that improve engineering productivity and reduce cognitive load.\nTreat engineering platforms as products by partnering with engineering teams, measuring platform adoption, collecting customer feedback, and continuously improving platform capabilities.\nLead enterprise adoption of AI-assisted software engineering tools and intelligent automation that improve software development, infrastructure provisioning, testing, documentation, deployment, security validation, operational support, and engineering productivity.\nEvaluate emerging AI technologies including coding assistants, AI agents, autonomous remediation, predictive operations, and intelligent engineering platforms.\nDrive enterprise engineering modernization through cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, containers, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation-first engineering practices, and platform engineering.\nEstablish enterprise standards for CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, release automation, cloud operations, configuration management, deployment automation, and engineering governance.\nBuild scalable cloud platforms supporting modern software delivery using Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, API management, and cloud-native services.\nEstablish Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), error budgets, operational readiness reviews, reliability engineering, and resilience frameworks.\nDrive enterprise adoption of DevSecOps practices including security-by-design, software supply chain security, secrets management, automated compliance, vulnerability management, SBOM generation, and secure software delivery.\nChampion Developer Experience (DevEx) initiatives through self-service engineering platforms, engineering automation, developer tooling, standardized environments, and streamlined software delivery workflows.\nSupport observability initiatives including OpenTelemetry, monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, telemetry, dashboards, operational intelligence, and application performance monitoring.\nImplement AIOps capabilities leveraging machine learning and intelligent automation for anomaly detection, predictive monitoring, automated incident correlation, root cause analysis, and operational insights.\nDefine and monitor engineering performance using DORA Metrics, SPACE Framework principles, deployment frequency, lead time for change, change failure rate, mean time to recovery (MTTR), platform adoption, developer productivity, availability, and service health metrics.\nPartner with Architecture teams to establish scalable, secure, API-first, cloud-native technology platforms that support Fortrea's long-term engineering strategy.\nCollaborate with Product Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Data & AI, Architecture, and Technology Leadership to support engineering strategy, investment priorities, platform roadmaps, and modernization initiatives.\nDrive cloud governance, FinOps practices, infrastructure optimization, capacity planning, cost management, and operational efficiency.\nLead workforce planning, organizational design, talent acquisition, succession planning, leadership development, and continuous learning across the Platform Engineering organization.\nManage engineering budgets, technology investments, strategic vendor partnerships, resource planning, and platform lifecycle management.\nFoster a high-performance engineering culture centered on ownership, innovation, automation-first thinking, operational excellence, engineering quality, experimentation, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer outcomes.\nContinuously evaluate emerging technologies, AI capabilities, engineering platforms, cloud services, and automation opportunities that improve software delivery and operational excellence.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nQualifications (Minimum Required):\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline. Equivalent experience will be considered.\nAdvanced knowledge of Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Software Delivery, and modern engineering practices.\nStrong understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, Kubernetes, containers, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD, and enterprise software engineering.\nStrong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and modern cloud engineering practices, with familiarity across AWS and Google Cloud Platform.\nDeep understanding of DevSecOps, cloud security, secure software development lifecycle, compliance automation, software supply chain security, and operational governance.\nDemonstrated success leading enterprise engineering transformations and building high-performing engineering organizations.\nExceptional leadership, communication, organizational development, stakeholder management, and executive influencing skills.\nAbility to define long-term engineering strategy while delivering measurable business outcomes.\nExperience (Minimum Required):\n10+ years of progressive experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Engineering, or related engineering disciplines.\n5+ years leading Engineering Managers, Platform Engineering teams, DevOps organizations, or globally distributed engineering organizations.\nDemonstrated experience supporting and executing Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering strategies within established enterprise standards.\nProven experience implementing Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), self-service engineering platforms, reusable engineering capabilities, and platform-as-a-product operating models.\nExperience leading enterprise cloud transformations, CI/CD modernization, Infrastructure as Code, release automation, GitOps, and cloud-native platform engineering initiatives.\nDemonstrated success implementing AI-assisted software engineering and intelligent automation to improve engineering productivity and software delivery.\nExperience establishing engineering standards for software delivery, operational reliability, platform engineering, cloud engineering, and engineering governance.\nExperience implementing DORA Metrics, engineering productivity metrics, operational KPIs, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement programs.\nExperience partnering with Product Engineering, Architecture, Data & AI, Security, Infrastructure, and Executive Leadership to deliver enterprise engineering capabilities.\nExperience managing technology investments, vendor relationships, budgets, workforce planning, and organizational development.\nDemonstrated success leading globally distributed engineering organizations within complex enterprise environments.\nPreferred Qualifications Include:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field.\nExperience within healthcare, life 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