Director of Platform Engineering

The role

You will lead the Platform Engineering team of DevOps engineers and drive the technical direction of the platform that powers payments for banks and fintechs. This is a hands-on leadership role involving infrastructure design, automation, and technical investigation.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor and grow a team of DevOps engineers
• Own the roadmap, architecture and quality of in-house Infrastructure-as-Code
• Adapt the platform to new requirements, markets, and regulatory expectations
• Plan and drive upgrades across Kubernetes, operating systems, databases and build toolchain
• Own infrastructure cost management including visibility, forecasting, and optimization
• Lead technical investigation of complex infrastructure issues and drive root-cause analysis
• Continuously improve CI/CD and release tooling
• Establish and uphold engineering practices including code review and testing
• Partner with Platform Operations, Software Engineering, Information Security and Compliance
• Represent Platform Engineering with clients, prospects, auditors and partners

Required qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in DevOps, infrastructure, platform or site reliability engineering
• 5+ years leading engineering work
• At least 3 years in a people-leadership role
• Deep, hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools
• Scripting in Python and Bash
• Extensive experience operating production workloads on public cloud
• Strong experience running Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production
• Strong Linux background, including supporting Java applications on Linux
• Track record of proactively identifying risks and opportunities
• Ability to lead troubleshooting of complex, cross-cutting infrastructure issues under pressure
• Experience managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure costs at scale
• Experience working in a regulated environment such as financial services

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, card issuing, or a growth-stage fintech
• Experience operating multi-tenant platforms across multiple regions and regulatory jurisdictions
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud or on-prem client deployments
• Familiarity with payment HSMs, particularly the Utimaco Atalla AT1000 series

Benefits

• Professional development from day 1
• A 360 focus on your wellbeing
• The ability to work where you need to

Before you apply

• Authorization to work in either the U.S. or Canada is a precondition of employment
• E6 is not able to provide employment sponsorship at this time

About the company

Episode Six is a global provider of API-based issuer processing and ledger infrastructure. They are a 100% cloud-native fintech headquartered in Austin.