
Director of Platform Engineering – Operations
NetApp
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: RTP • North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $199,750 - $298,100 per year
Job Level
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