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[Remote] Managing Director, Platform Engineering
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Madison-Davis, LLC is a rapidly scaling technology organization seeking a Head of Platform Engineering to lead and evolve its cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities. This role involves overseeing a large engineering organization focused on developer enablement and operational scalability while partnering with executive leadership to define platform strategy.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale Platform Engineering and SRE organizations
- Define long-term cloud infrastructure and platform strategy
- Build product-oriented internal developer platforms
- Drive modernization initiatives across Kubernetes and cloud-native systems
- Improve observability, reliability, automation, and deployment workflows
- Partner with engineering leadership to improve developer experience and software delivery velocity
- Establish scalable operational standards and engineering best practices
- Mentor engineering leaders and help scale organizational structure
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or SRE
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystems
- Ability to be hands on and lead a team is a must
- Proven leadership experience managing large-scale engineering organizations
- Experience operating in highly product-centric engineering organizations
- Experience building internal developer platforms or platform-as-a-product organizations
- Experience building platform engineering organizations in high-growth environments
- Experience with AI developer tooling or agentic AI workflows
- Strong software engineering background with Python, Java, Go, etc
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Strong observability and monitoring expertise
- Experience leading large engineering organizations and scaling technical teams
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, containers, and infrastructure automation
- Ability to communicate technical strategy across engineering and executive stakeholders
- Experience with OpenStack or VMware
- Exposure to policy-as-code frameworks
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