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ENFRA LLC

Director, Digital Platform Engineer

$134.43K - $179.43K/yr

As part of this transformation, we are looking for a Director, Digital Platform Engineer leads the enterprise experience for Microsoft 365 collaboration and knowledge work-specifically Copilot, Teams ...

MasterCard

Director, Platform Engineering

O Fallon, MO · On-site +1

Title and Summary Director, Platform Engineering Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital ...

MasterCard

Director, Platform Engineering

New York, NY · On-site +1

Title and Summary Director, Platform Engineering Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital ...

Allegis Group

Director-Connected Platform

Hanover, MD · On-site

The Director, GEA Connected Platform is responsible for the ecosystem of Client, Seller, Talent, and Recruiter products, including expert search and machine learning/AI applications. This position ...

Horizon3.ai

Director, Pentest Platform

What You'll Do As Director of Pentest Platform, you'll lead the strategy, design, and development of the core pentest execution, orchestration, and data infrastructure that powers NodeZero ...

Deckers

Director, Platform Architecture

OR · Remote

Director, Platform Architecture Reports to: Chief Digital & Data Officer Location: United States (Remote) Interested applicants must reside in one of the following approved states: Arizona ...

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Director, Platform Architecture Reports to: Chief Digital & Data Officer Location: United States (Remote) Interested applicants must reside in one of the following approved states: Arizona ...

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What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Platform Director, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Platform Director, you need strong leadership skills, strategic project management experience, and a background in platform architecture or software engineering, often supported by a relevant degree. Familiarity with cloud platforms, enterprise-level software systems, and certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect or PMP are highly valued. Outstanding communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving abilities help set top performers apart in this position. These skills and qualities are crucial for overseeing complex platform initiatives, aligning technical teams, and ensuring platform scalability and reliability.

How does a Platform Director typically collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve organizational goals?

As a Platform Director, you will regularly work alongside product managers, engineering leads, UX designers, and business stakeholders to develop and execute platform strategies. This role often involves facilitating communication between technical teams and business units, ensuring that platform initiatives align with broader company objectives. Effective collaboration is key, as you'll need to balance multiple priorities, resolve conflicts, and drive consensus to deliver scalable solutions that support diverse user and business needs.

What is a Platform Director?

A Platform Director is a senior leader responsible for overseeing the development, management, and strategic direction of a technology or business platform within an organization. They coordinate teams across engineering, product, and operations to ensure the platform meets business objectives and user needs. Platform Directors also manage budgets, set key performance indicators, and often play a central role in scaling and improving the platform's capabilities. Their work ensures the platform remains reliable, scalable, and aligned with the company's growth strategy.

What is the difference between Platform Director vs Product Manager?

AspectPlatform DirectorProduct Manager
ResponsibilitiesOversees entire platform infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and integration across multiple products or services.Focuses on specific products, managing development, features, and user experience.
Required CredentialsTypically requires a background in IT, software engineering, or systems architecture, often with leadership experience.Usually holds a degree in business, marketing, or computer science, with skills in product lifecycle management.
Work EnvironmentLeads cross-functional teams in a technical environment, often within large organizations or tech companies.Works closely with engineering, design, and marketing teams to develop and improve individual products.

While both roles involve strategic oversight, the Platform Director manages the overall platform infrastructure, whereas the Product Manager focuses on specific product development and user experience. Understanding these differences helps organizations assign the right responsibilities and expertise.

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Sr. Director, Platform Engineering

Sr. Director, Platform Engineering

Gap, Inc.

Coppell, TX • On-site

Full-time

Posted 12 days ago

Gap rating

6.8

Company rating: 6.8 out of 10

Based on 271 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

20th of 102 rated fashion retailers

Job description

About the Role
The Senior Director, Platform Engineering leads the strategy, development, and operations of our enterprise Cloud Platform across Azure and GCP. This role owns the Continuous Delivery Platform built on Kubernetes, drives FinOps discipline to optimize cloud spend, and ensures teams can build, ship, and run software with speed and confidence. You will shape the modern DevOps tech stack and champion infrastructure automation through Terraform, enabling engineering teams across the organization to deliver at scale. Your leadership will directly impact developer productivity, system reliability, and the pace of innovation.What You'll Do
CLOUD PLATFORM STRATEGY & ENGINEERING
  • Define and execute the multi-cloud platform strategy across Azure and GCP, ensuring architectural consistency, security, and scalability.
  • Lead the design and evolution of shared platform services - networking, identity, compute, storage, and observability - as self-service capabilities for product engineering teams.
  • Own the API gateway and service mesh layer (Istio), enabling secure, observable, and resilient service-to-service communication across the platform.
  • Evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies and make build-vs-buy decisions that balance innovation with operational sustainability.
  • Partner with Security, Architecture, and Compliance teams to embed governance and policy-as-code into every layer of the platform.
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY & DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE
  • Own and evolve the enterprise Continuous Delivery Platform built on Kubernetes, enabling teams to build, test, ship, and schedule workloads reliably.
  • Drive adoption of modern CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, GitOps workflows, and progressive delivery practices (canary, blue-green, feature flags).
  • Champion developer experience (DevEx) as a first-class product - reducing friction from code commit to production through self-service tooling, golden paths, and internal developer portals.
  • Establish and track platform adoption metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) aligned with DORA benchmarks.
INFRASTRUCTURE AUTOMATION & DEVOPS EXCELLENCE
  • Lead the infrastructure-as-code practice using Terraform, ensuring all cloud resources are provisioned, versioned, and managed through automated, repeatable pipelines.
  • Drive the DevOps culture and toolchain strategy - standardizing on modern practices for configuration management, secrets management, service mesh, and policy enforcement.
  • Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules, landing zones, and account/project vending solutions that accelerate onboarding of new workloads and teams.
  • Ensure infrastructure changes flow through the same CI/CD rigor as application code, with automated testing, drift detection, and compliance checks.
OBSERVABILITY, MONITORING & EVENT STREAMING
  • Define and own the enterprise observability strategy - ensuring comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting across all platform services and application workloads.
  • Lead the implementation and standardization of monitoring toolchains (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Operations Suite) to provide real-time visibility into system health and performance.
  • Own the platform's event streaming and messaging infrastructure built on Apache Kafka, enabling reliable, high-throughput, real-time data pipelines across the organization.
  • Establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets as the foundation for reliability decisions, partnering with product engineering teams to drive a culture of proactive incident prevention.
  • Ensure distributed tracing and service dependency mapping are in place across the Istio service mesh, enabling rapid root cause analysis during incidents.
API GATEWAY & SERVICE MESH MANAGEMENT
  • Lead the strategy and operations of the Istio service mesh and API gateway layer, providing traffic management, mutual TLS, rate limiting, and fine-grained access control across microservices.
  • Define and enforce API lifecycle management standards - versioning, deprecation policies, schema governance, and developer documentation.
  • Partner with application teams to optimize service-to-service communication patterns, latency, and resilience through circuit breaking, retries, and intelligent routing.
  • Ensure API gateway and mesh configurations are managed as code, fully integrated into the CI/CD pipeline with automated canary analysis and rollback.
FINOPS & CLOUD FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
  • Establish and lead the FinOps practice, creating visibility, accountability, and optimization of cloud spend across Azure and GCP.
  • Implement cost allocation frameworks (tagging, showback/chargeback) that tie cloud consumption to business units, products, and teams.
  • Partner with Finance, Procurement, and Engineering leadership to forecast cloud budgets, manage committed-use agreements, and identify savings opportunities.
  • Build dashboards and reporting cadences that keep cloud costs transparent from engineering teams to executive leadership.
TEAM LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing platform engineering organization spanning SRE, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, observability, and FinOps disciplines.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and blameless incident learning.
  • Attract and retain top engineering talent by creating an environment of technical excellence, psychological safety, and meaningful career growth.
  • Establish clear team charters, on-call rotations, SLOs, and operational readiness standards.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL PARTNERSHIP & STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
  • Serve as the primary technology leader for cloud platform and delivery infrastructure, communicating strategy, roadmaps, and trade-offs to executive leadership.
  • Partner with product engineering, data engineering, security, and enterprise architecture teams to align platform capabilities with business priorities.
  • Coordinate transparent, timely communications on platform health, incidents, capacity, and upcoming changes.
  • Prepare and deliver executive summaries covering platform performance, cost trends, reliability metrics, and strategic initiatives.
Who You Are
  • 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles managing managers.
  • Deep hands-on background in cloud platforms (Azure and/or GCP required; multi-cloud experience strongly preferred).
  • Proven experience building and operating Kubernetes-based platforms at enterprise scale, including container orchestration, Istio service mesh, and workload scheduling.
  • Strong expertise in API gateway architecture, service mesh (Istio), traffic management, and microservices communication patterns.
  • Demonstrated experience with enterprise observability and monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent), including SLI/SLO frameworks and incident management.
  • Hands-on knowledge of event streaming and messaging platforms, particularly Apache Kafka, for building real-time data pipelines at scale.
  • Strong command of infrastructure-as-code practices with Terraform and modern DevOps toolchains (CI/CD, GitOps, observability, secrets management).
  • Demonstrated success standing up or maturing a FinOps function, including cost optimization, tagging strategies, and cloud financial governance.
  • Track record of building high-performing engineering teams with a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and continuous delivery.
  • Excellent executive communication skills - able to translate complex technical strategies into business outcomes for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience driving platform adoption and developer experience as an internal product, using metrics and feedback loops to guide investment.
  • Strong knowledge of DORA metrics, SRE principles, and modern reliability practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD) or Terraform certifications (HashiCorp Certified).
  • Cloud certifications in Azure (Solutions Architect Expert) and/or GCP (Professional Cloud Architect).
  • FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent experience with the FinOps Foundation framework.
  • Experience with platform engineering tooling such as Backstage, Crossplane, ArgoCD, or Flux.
  • Certified Kafka expertise or significant production experience operating Kafka/Confluent at scale.
  • Experience with Istio certification or advanced service mesh architectures in multi-cluster environments.
  • Background in retail, e-commerce, or high-transaction-volume environments.

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