Director of Platform Engineering

Vizrt is undergoing an exciting transformation from on-premises systems to modern cloud and SaaS solutions, and we’re looking for a visionary Director of Platform to lead this evolution. This role is perfect for a technical leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy, systems reliability, and hands-on engineering excellence.

You will be responsible for building and leading a world-class platform organization focused on delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance infrastructure. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll design and implement critical platform services—including CI/CD, observability, developer experience, IAM, and more—that empower our product teams to ship quickly and confidently.

This is a high-impact role for a hands-on leader passionate about cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and enabling engineering excellence across the business.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead & Inspire: Drive technical vision and execution while mentoring and growing a high-performing DevOps/Platform team.
• Architect Scalable Systems: Design and maintain cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS) that is secure, resilient, and scalable.
• Automate Everything: Champion infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD best practices, and platform automation to streamline developer workflows.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Establish best practices for monitoring, logging, and alerting. Own uptime, incident response, and performance.
• Enhance Security & Compliance: Collaborate with the Security team to proactively address vulnerabilities and enforce industry standards.
• Optimize Costs: Ensure efficient use of cloud resources through cost-aware architecture and governance.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with engineering, product, sales, and support to align platform capabilities with customer needs and business goals

Requirements

• 10+ years in a senior engineering or technical leadership role (SRE, DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure).
• Deep experience with AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, networking, IAM, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (CDK, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).
• Strong programming/scripting in Python, Typescript/JavaScript, Bash or similar.
• Proven success scaling platform operations in a cloud/SaaS environment.
• Excellent communicator with a people-first leadership style.
• Experience overseeing complex projects and driving platform roadmaps.
• Passion for modern DevOps, SRE principles, and developer productivity.

Benefits

Recruitment Process

• Recruiter Screening
• Team Interview
• Technical Discussion
• Final Interview