NetApp

Director of Platform Engineering – Operations

NetApp

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: RTPNorth CarolinaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $199,750 - $298,100 per year

Job Level

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About the role

  • Define and execute the strategy for enterprise compute, storage, and DDI platforms across hybrid environments.
  • Drive modernization of infrastructure services using IaC, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and policy-as-code frameworks.
  • Lead the evolution toward self-service platform models with clear service catalogs, SLOs, and reliability metrics.
  • Partner with executive stakeholders across IT, Security, Engineering, and Product to align platform capabilities with business priorities.
  • Establish multi-year roadmaps for infrastructure transformation, cost optimization, resilience, and scalability.
  • Oversee architecture, engineering, and lifecycle management of on-prem and cloud-based compute and storage platforms.
  • Lead global 24x7 operations with clear accountability for uptime, performance, availability, and incident response.
  • Champion AI-Ops capabilities to enhance observability, predictive analytics, and automation.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering and operations.
  • 7+ years of leadership experience managing global, distributed teams at scale.
  • Deep expertise in hybrid compute platforms (virtualization, containerization, public cloud IaaS/PaaS).
  • Enterprise storage technologies (block, file, object, hybrid architectures).
  • Global DDI services (enterprise DNS, DHCP, IPAM architectures).
  • Demonstrated experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD-driven infrastructure delivery.
  • Proven track record driving automation at scale across enterprise infrastructure.
  • Strong experience with AI-Ops platforms, observability stacks, and operational analytics.
  • Experience leading both engineering (build) and operations (run) functions within a unified organization.
Benefits
  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Retirement or Pension Plans
  • Paid Time Off
  • Various Leave options
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Restricted stocks (RSU’s)
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Hard Skills & Tools
Infrastructure as CodeCI/CD automationAI-Opsvirtualizationcontainerizationpublic cloud IaaSpublic cloud PaaSenterprise storage technologiesobservabilityoperational analytics
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic planningstakeholder managementteam managementaccountabilitycommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityperformance management