Head of Platform (Infrastructure & DevOps)

Role overview Lead the platform organization and set infrastructure direction as a growing software platform expands its scale and enterprise capabilities. The remit spans cloud and AI infrastructure, reliability, developer experience, deployment options, and infrastructure costs. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines team development with architecture and operational ownership across engineering.

Responsibilities - Set infrastructure strategy and the platform roadmap, making decisions on cloud architecture, deployment approaches, vendors, and standards. - Lead and grow the Platform team, including hiring plans, goals, team structure, and potential leadership layers. - Own AI infrastructure for model training and serving, MLOps tools, and model access. - Improve developer workflows and deployment paths while meeting compliance needs. - Manage infrastructure budgets, cost attribution, forecasting, and cloud-provider relationships. - Establish reliability practices, including service objectives, on-call, incident reviews, disaster recovery testing, and capacity planning. - Oversee CI/CD, infrastructure as code, GitOps, and observability standards. - Work with engineering and business teams on enterprise deployment models, security reviews, and technical due diligence.

Requirements - Proven experience leading engineers, growing teams, and ideally managing team leads or managers. - Hands-on Kubernetes experience across multiple regions, plus infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practice. - Experience owning reliability programs, incident response, on-call, and disaster recovery. - Familiarity with an observability platform and the ability to review code, architecture, and prototypes. - Experience managing infrastructure budgets and cloud costs. - Experience designing enterprise deployment options, such as single-tenant or regional environments, and supporting security reviews and service commitments. - Clear communication across engineering, executives, and customers, with sound judgment around custom requests.

Nice to have - Familiarity with Crossplane or similar tools, Temporal, SOC 2, or technical due diligence for a funding round.

Benefits and work setup Distributed work with flexible location and schedule, company equipment, a remote-work stipend, coworking support, paid time off, enhanced parental leave, health and retirement benefits, a learning budget, and team gatherings. Compensation includes stock options; benefits may vary by location and role.