
Director, Platform Engineering
CivicPlus
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $177,000 - $279,600 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Set the platform vision and lead execution across shared services, infrastructure, and tooling while building and mentoring high-performing platform, SRE, and DevOps teams.
- Own the design and operation of secure, scalable AWS and Azure environments, establishing standards for reliability, observability, resilience, and incident management.
- Create paved-road developer platforms, CI/CD systems, and automation that improve velocity, quality, and consistency across teams.
- Champion operational rigor through SLOs, reviews, and cost-aware engineering practices, ensuring efficient, sustainable growth.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE leadership roles within a SaaS environment.
- Deep experience with secure cloud architectures, infrastructure-as-code, hybrid hosting models, and modern security technologies.
- Strong knowledge of observability and reliability engineering practices.
- Experience building internal platforms that enhance developer productivity and reduce operational burden.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and optimize cloud costs at scale.
- Strong track record in incident response, risk management, and executive communication.
- Strong knowledge of GovRAMP, FedRAMP, NIST, STIGs, ISO 27001 and other government compliance frameworks.
- Ability to engage with government agencies and communicate security posture with clarity and confidence.
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating across engineering, product, and business functions.
- Able to work additional hours during the week after hours and on the weekend with 24-7 on-call status.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible Time Off
- 401(k) plan
- and more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AWSAzureinfrastructure-as-codeCI/CDautomationobservability engineeringreliability engineeringincident managementcloud cost optimizationsecure cloud architectures
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationrisk managementexecutive communicationoperational rigorclarityconfidenceability to work additional hours