Director of Engineering, Platform & DevOps at Lgads

Org Leadership & Talent
Build and lead a large team organization (tech leads and engineers); attract, develop, and retain top talent.
Define career ladders, succession plans, and healthy on-call practices; ensure sustainable delivery and team health.
Champion a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement (blameless postmortems, strategic retention).
Strategy, Portfolio & Governance
Own the Platform & DevOps strategy and multi-quarter roadmap; align to company goals and product timelines.
Define portfolio governance: intake, prioritization, and trade-offs across security, reliability, developer experience, and cost.
Establish org-wide guardrails (golden paths, reference architectures, policy-as-code) enabling autonomy with compliance.
Platform Architecture & Governance
Set technical direction for build/release, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes/EKS runtime, and observability.
Establish guardrails (golden paths, templates, policy-as-code, org standards) to enable autonomy with compliance.
Drive cost, performance, and availability improvements; own platform budgets/forecasts and FinOps practices.
DevOps & Security
Standardize CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins or similar), artifact signing, progressive delivery.
Enforce security-by-design: SCA/SAST/DAST in pipelines, secrets management, least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, runtime hardening.
Lead remediation SLAs with Security; maintain audit-ready evidence for enterprise standards and regulations.
Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability
Direct the design/operations of secure AWS platforms using IaC (Terraform/Pulumi) with drift detection and change controls.
Oversee EKS/Kubernetes multi-cluster/multi-region strategy, capacity planning, and resiliency patterns.
Define SLOs/error budgets and ensure effective incident response, post-incident learning, and reliability investments.
Communication, Documentation & Change Management
Publish clear reference architectures, runbooks, and standards; keep documentation current and discoverable.
Communicate priorities, trade-offs, and status to execs and cross-functional partners; influence with data.

Director of Engineering, Platform & DevOps

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