Associate Principal/Senior Manager / Associate Director – Platform Engineering, Cloud & DevOps

Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-driven operations and intelligent automation, to modernize enterprise platforms, reduce operational toil, optimize cloud costs, and deliver measurable improvements in reliability, engineering efficiency, and service delivery.

Experience & Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related technology domains, consistent with the applicable education and equivalent-experience requirements.

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, with responsibility for guiding engineering teams, driving architectural decisions, and delivering large-scale technology initiatives.

• Proven ability to lead and influence high-performing engineering teams, including mentoring senior engineers, providing technical direction, and driving engineering excellence across multiple workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience defining and executing technology strategies, engineering roadmaps, and platform modernization initiatives within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise-scale public cloud architecture, preferably AWS, including cloud networking, security, automation, containerization, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience leading or driving DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, platform automation, and cloud transformation initiatives with measurable improvements in reliability, scalability, operational efficiency, or engineering productivity.
• Strong architectural judgment and ability to evaluate complex technical trade-offs, influence engineering decisions, and guide teams through design and implementation.
• Proven ability to collaborate with senior technology stakeholders and globally distributed engineering teams, communicate technical strategies effectively, and influence decisions without direct organizational authority.
• Experience establishing engineering standards, operational excellence practices, technical governance, and continuous improvement frameworks across enterprise platforms.
• Experience driving technology adoption and engineering innovation, including cloud-native platforms, self-service infrastructure, observability, and automation.

• Previous experience as an Engineering Manager, Senior Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering Lead, DevOps Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering Manager, Associate Director, or equivalent technical leadership role.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across Platform Engineering, Cloud, DevOps, Infrastructure, or SRE functions.
• Familiarity with cloud financial management (FinOps), platform security, AI-assisted operations, and emerging engineering automation technologies.
• Experience working in a global enterprise environment, particularly within life sciences, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries, is a plus.

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