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

• Develop and lead infrastructure platform engineering team responsible for cloud enterprise data platform architecture and engineering
• Lead database platform transformation/modernization supporting always-on enterprise applications and services
• Accelerate infrastructure transformation to provision / manage infrastructure through infrastructure as code (IaC) to enable self-service and reduce handoffs
• Collaborate with IT stakeholders to develop, communicate and execute a multi-year technology strategy to simplify architecture and delivery model
• Partner with architecture team to drive tool and data platform alignment to modern data architecture practices (modern data stack)
• Provide thought leadership for platform and data architecture as move transition to hybrid-cloud
• Provide Tier 2,3 engineering support ensuring effective 24x7x365 support for assigned technology including vendor escalation
• Partner with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity organizations to integrate disaster recovery processes with day-to-day technology engineering and operations
• Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy
• Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
• Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness
• Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
• Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization

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Senior Director, Autonomous Platform Engineering

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