Equinix

Head of Engineering – Cloud Platform

Equinix

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $202,000 - $304,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraform

About the role

  • Lead the engineering teams responsible for core cloud infrastructure, compute, networking, container orchestration, and internal platform services
  • Define and drive the vision, architecture, and roadmap for a self-service, secure, and highly available cloud platform
  • Ensure a high standard of operational excellence through automation, monitoring, observability, incident management, and capacity planning
  • Collaborate with security and compliance teams to build platforms that are secure by design and meet regulatory standards
  • Partner with Developer Experience and SRE to streamline the development-to-deployment lifecycle and improve developer velocity
  • Lead modernization efforts such as infrastructure-as-code, service mesh adoption, multi-cloud strategy, or internal platform APIs
  • Recruit, mentor, and develop a world-class team of platform engineers and engineering leaders

Requirements

  • 12+ years of engineering experience with 7+ in a leadership role focused on cloud platforms or infrastructure
  • Deep expertise in public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi), and cloud-native architecture
  • Proven success delivering scalable platform infrastructure in high-growth or large-scale environments
  • Strong focus on automation, developer self-service, and reducing operational toil
  • Experience driving cross-functional initiatives and influencing at the executive level
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
  • A bias toward action, continuous improvement, and reliability