VP, DevOps, Platform Engineering & Reliability

Position Summary

Responsible for defining and executing the strategy for the company’s Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) functions. This leader owns the reliability, scalability, security, operational governance, and engineering enablement capabilities of the platform ecosystem while enabling high-velocity, high-quality software delivery across engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Establishing scalable and reliable platform engineering capabilities that improve developer velocity without sacrificing governance or operational integrity.
• Standardizing CI/CD, observability, deployment traceability, and operational controls across engineering organizations.
• Improving production reliability, incident response effectiveness, and operational transparency.
• Reducing deployment risk through automation, validation, and platform-enforced engineering standards.
• Building internal platforms that are consumable, scalable, secure, and treated as products.
• Creating clear operational accountability through measurable reliability objectives, telemetry standards, and runtime visibility.
• Enabling engineering teams to move faster while maintaining consistent enterprise standards.
• Platform & Infrastructure Leadership: Defining and executing the long-term strategy for platform engineering, DevOps, and reliability.
• Defining and evolving scalable, secure, resilient, and operable platform architectures.
• Establishing internal platforms as productized capabilities with defined roadmaps, SLAs, adoption metrics, and operational standards.
• Defining enterprise-wide standards for deployment automation, observability, runtime traceability, and infrastructure governance.
• Driving consistency across cloud, containers, and deployment ecosystems while enabling appropriate team autonomy.
• DevOps & Engineering Enablement: Leading CI/CD strategy, automation, and engineering enablement initiatives across the organization.
• Establishing best practices for infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, release governance, and environment consistency.
• Implementing platform guardrails and automated controls that reduce operational variance without unnecessarily slowing engineering delivery.
• Ensuring deployment pipelines support automated quality enforcement, artifact traceability and immutability, release validation, reproducible deployments and operational auditability.
• Driving standardization across heterogeneous tooling ecosystems while remaining technology-flexible where appropriate.
• Site Reliability Engineering: Leading the maturity and adoption of SRE principles and operational excellence practices.
• Defining and operationalizing SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management standards.
• Improving availability, scalability, performance, and resiliency across production systems.
• Establishing standardized telemetry and distributed tracing practices across services and infrastructure.
• Ensuring operational visibility supports rapid root-cause analysis and production recovery.
• Driving post-incident learning through blameless postmortems and systemic corrective actions.
• Reliability, Security & Compliance: Ensuring platform capabilities meet enterprise security, compliance, and regulatory expectations.
• Partnering closely with security, compliance, architecture, and engineering leadership teams.
• Establishing software supply chain governance practices, including deployment traceability, artifact lineage, and auditability.
• Improving operational transparency through standardized runtime metadata and observability practices.
• Organizational & Technical Leadership: Leading, mentoring, and scaling high-performing platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams.
• Establishing a culture of operational ownership, engineering accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Balancing developer productivity with platform governance and enterprise reliability requirements.
• Influencing engineering strategy and technical direction across organizational boundaries.
• Pricing: Partnering with executive leadership to align platform investments with business objectives, delivery goals, and operational risk management.
• Hands-On Technical Expectations: Candidates should demonstrate prior ownership and implementation experience in several of the following areas within production-scale environments:
• CI/CD & Release Engineering: Designing and governing enterprise CI/CD platforms and deployment automation strategies.
• Implementing automated quality gates and release validation processes using modern CI/CD tooling.
• Implementing end-to-end deployment traceability across source control, build, release, and runtime environments.
• Managing artifact integrity, versioning, and immutable deployment practices.
• Supporting complex or heterogeneous tooling ecosystems across engineering organizations.
• Observability & Distributed Systems: Implementing enterprise observability strategies across distributed systems.
• Implementing logs, metrics, traces, and correlation strategies that support effective production diagnostics.
• Integrating deployment and runtime metadata into observability workflows for operational analysis.
• Platform & Container Engineering: Designing standardized containers and runtime strategies at organizational scale.
• Establishing secure and maintainable image lifecycle practices.
• Implementing environment consistency and operational standards across SDLC stages.
• Designing reusable platform capabilities that reduce duplication and operational inconsistency.
• Production Reliability & Operational Engineering: Diagnosing and resolving complex production failures across application, infrastructure, and dependency layers.
• Implementing resiliency and failure-handling patterns within distributed systems.
• Improving operational recovery, incident response maturity, and service reliability.
• Driving systemic operational improvements based on production learnings and reliability metrics.

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience with deep expertise in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or reliability organizations at scale.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud and infrastructure ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent).
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, automation, and reliability practices.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at both strategic and deeply technical levels.
• Strong executive communication, organizational leadership, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Experience driving enterprise engineering standardization and operational maturity initiatives preferred.