Head of Platform, Infrastructure & DevOps

The Company is seeking a Head of Platform to lead its platform team and define infrastructure strategy and the platform roadmap. Responsibilities include growing the team, owning cloud and AI infrastructure, and enabling engineering teams through reliable environments, deployment pathways, and strong developer experience. The role oversees reliability practices, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and infrastructure costs. It also involves shaping enterprise deployment models, supporting security reviews and client discussions, setting engineering standards, and reporting platform health and costs to leadership. Candidates should have proven experience leading and growing engineering teams, along with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps tools. They should have a track record of owning reliability, including SLOs, on-call, incident response, postmortems, and disaster recovery testing, plus experience with observability platforms and infrastructure budgeting. The role requires comfort reviewing code and architecture, designing enterprise deployment models, and supporting security reviews and service commitments. Strong communication skills and experience in a startup or scale-up environment are important; familiarity with Crossplane, workflow orchestration, security compliance, or technical due diligence is an advantage.