Platform Engineer

• Define and execute the enterprise Platform Engineering strategy supporting Consumer Products and Corporate Technology.
• Lead the evolution of engineering platforms that improve developer experience, platform consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Establish enterprise standards for platform architecture, engineering automation, and software delivery.
• Drive adoption of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), Infrastructure as Code, cloud platform engineering, Kubernetes, container platforms, release engineering, environment management, artifact repositories, secrets management, observability platforms, and platform networking.
• Build reusable engineering capabilities that enable product teams to deliver software securely and efficiently.
• Leadership, People Management, Budget & Vendor Management

Senior Director, Autonomous Platform Engineering

• Design and build the next-generation bare metal deployment pipeline to achieve sub-60-second provisioning times
• Develop and maintain Vultr’s bare metal automation and management toolkit
• Implement automated firmware update workflows across the bare metal fleet using IPMI/BMC protocols
• Build and optimize kexec-based fast boot and provisioning flows to minimize deployment latency
• Integrate cloud-init and instance metadata service for bare metal, enabling consistent configuration across VM and BM products
• Develop Puppet and Ansible modules for bare metal server configuration and lifecycle management
• Architect and implement VPC networking for bare metal instances, including network attach and routing automation
• Collaborate with the Provisioning and Orchestration teams to unify OS image pipelines and ensure bare metal integrates cleanly with Vultr’s reservation and assignment systems

Platform Engineer – Bare Metal

• Manage, lead & mentor our Platform Engineers
• Design, build, manage and monitor the infrastructure of RoadRunner technology
• Collaborate with product and engineering managers to define technical roadmaps and help guide our technology north star
• Maintain current awareness of marketplace trends, both technical and process improvements

Platform Engineer Manager

• Lead the strategy and delivery of modern infrastructure and cloud platforms that support the company’s growth and technology roadmap
• Drive large-scale platform and infrastructure initiatives, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned with business objectives
• Oversee the engineering and operational excellence of datacenters, hybrid cloud environments, core IT systems, and cloud-based services
• Implement strong governance and compliance practices across infrastructure and platform domains
• Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering and IT operations teams
• Build strong partnerships with technology leaders, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams

Senior Manager, IT Platform Engineering – Governance

• Provision complete infrastructure stacks for new product launches. Recent examples include full EKS buildouts (Karpenter, Istio, Crossplane), PostgreSQL/Redis data stores with IAM authentication, CloudFront distributions, and Datadog instrumentation across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Lead Kubernetes platform evolution. Drive cluster upgrades, add-on lifecycle (Karpenter, Istio, Crossplane), pod identity migration, and namespace management across all environments.
• Design secure, scalable abstractions that hide infrastructure complexity and define the golden paths other teams build on.
• Own authentication infrastructure for internal and external products: Auth0 SSO, Azure AD/Entra, AWS IAM, EKS Pod Identity, and OIDC federation.
• Drive zero-trust infrastructure patterns. Rotating IAM credentials for RDS, per-app Istio authorization policies, and network isolation.
• Enable LLM-powered workflows (Bedrock, Claude Code, and similar) that let engineering teams move faster without sacrificing governance.

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Senior Director, Autonomous Platform Engineering

Platform Engineer – Bare Metal

Platform Engineer Manager

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