Director, Platform Engineering

About the role

FOX Technology is looking for a Director, Platform Engineering to build and lead a new team focused on advancing in-house software development, platform engineering, and AI-enabled capabilities. This role will help establish the standards, workflows, and production-readiness practices needed to take internal ideas from concept to secure, scalable solutions. You will partner primarily with teams across FOX Technology and Broadcast Engineering to evaluate and mature AI-assisted solutions that support broadcast engineering, operational workflows, distribution, and internal engineering needs. This team will serve as a key bridge between experimentation and production, helping stakeholders turn promising concepts into reliable tools and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead a new platform engineering team supporting in-house development, AI-enabled workflows, and production readiness
• Establish standards and readiness gates for moving solutions from concept to POC, pilot, and production
• Partner primarily with FOX Technology and Broadcast Engineering teams to evaluate and mature internal tools that support engineering and operational workflows
• Create and improve workflows for CI/CD, testing, deployment, release management, documentation, and operational support
• Serve as a technical gatecheck for AI-assisted development efforts, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and aligned to FOX standards
• Guide the responsible use of LLMs, Claude or similar tools, Python libraries, feedback loops, and emerging agentic workflows
• Partner with information security to review code quality, dependencies, library risks, data handling, and secure deployment practices
• Lead agile delivery for approved concepts, translating stakeholder needs into technical requirements, sprint plans, and measurable outcomes
• Support local compute initiatives that enable shared platform capabilities for FOX Technology and Broadcast Engineering
• Mentor and develop a small team of software engineers focused on building and operationalizing internal platforms and tools

Requirements

• Experience leading software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, MLOps, or infrastructure engineering teams
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, CI/CD, testing, deployment, release management, and production support
• Experience taking internal tools, platforms, or technical products from concept or POC into production
• Strong proficiency with Python and modern software engineering practices
• Experience with AI workflows, LLMs, model deployment, inference, training pipelines, or AI-enabled application development
• Experience with GPU compute, local model training, inference platforms, or high-performance computing environments
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, or similar platforms
• Experience with Claude or similar LLM-based tools used for software development, prototyping, automation, or productivity
• Understanding of agentic concepts, feedback loops, human-in-the-loop validation, and risk management
• Experience with responsible AI practices, model governance, or enterprise technology risk frameworks
• Ability to evaluate code quality, software architecture, dependencies, security posture, scalability, and production readiness
• Experience partnering with information security on secure development, vulnerability management, dependency scanning, or open-source library risk
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Qualifications

• Experience in media, broadcast technology, streaming, live production, or content distribution environments