Lead Platform Engineer

Platform & CI/CD Leadership
• Lead the design, delivery, and evolution of enterprise CI/CD capabilities centered on Bitbucket source control, SonarQube quality scanning, and Artifactory artifact management.
• Define and own opinionated CI/CD workflows, patterns, and guardrails that balance developer autonomy with enterprise governance.
• Drive consistent adoption of code quality gates, artifact lifecycle and promotion standards, and secure build practices across engineering teams.
• Treat CI/CD as a product—prioritizing developer experience, stability, and long‑term sustainability.
DevOps & Automation
• Design and maintain shared pipeline components, templates, and automation frameworks that reduce duplication and improve consistency.
• Automate build, operate, and run aspects of the CI/CD ecosystem—minimizing manual intervention and operational risk.
• Enable scalable, repeatable CI/CD execution using ephemeral and containerized build environments.
SRE & Operational Ownership
• Own the operational health of assigned CI/CD platforms, including:
○ Reliability and availability
○ Monitoring, alerting, and observability
○ Risk identification and remediation
○ Continuous improvement and resilience
• Partner on incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems, ensuring learnings are fed back into platform design.
• Improve feedback loops so that failures surface early, clearly, and actionably for engineering teams.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
• Participate in prioritization and roadmap discussions with Product and Program stakeholders, translating goals into executable technical plans.
• Lead pragmatic design and trade‑off discussions—balancing speed, quality, reliability, and cost.
• Review code, pipeline changes, and automation contributed by others, ensuring alignment to standards and best practices.
• Mentor and guide engineers through hands‑on technical leadership, design reviews, and day‑to‑day problem solving.
• Contribute reusable patterns, libraries, and practices through engineering guilds and platform communities.

All About You
Experience & Background
• 12+ years of professional engineering experience, with significant ownership of platform, DevOps, or infrastructure systems at enterprise scale.
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD platforms used by multiple teams or organizations.
• Strong fundamentals in software design, automation, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
CI/CD & Tooling Expertise
• Hands‑on experience with SonarQube, Artifactory, and Bitbucket in enterprise environments
(or equivalent tooling such as GitHub/GitLab, Nexus, etc., with ability to ramp quickly).
• Deep understanding of:
○ Code quality and static analysis
○ Artifact lifecycle management and promotion models
○ Build governance and supply‑chain security
• Experience developing CI/CD automation using modern programming or scripting languages -one or more (Java, Groovy, Python, etc.).
SRE & Operations Mindset
• Strong production ownership mindset—you build it, you run it. Experienced with Linux/Unix.
• Experience improving reliability through monitoring, alerting, resilience patterns, and automation.
• Comfortable operating in environments with high regulatory, security, and compliance expectations.
Collaboration & Leadership
• Demonstrated capability to drive adoption of standards across diverse teams.
• Strong mentoring skills, supporting the growth of junior and mid‑level engineers.
• Clear, effective communicator, able to work seamlessly with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and Platform teams.
• Experience working in Agile delivery models, including planning, demos, and retrospectives.
Cloud & Modern Engineering Practices
• Experience working in cloud‑based or hybrid environments, with knowledge of access controls, identity, and automation. (Azure Or AWS)
• Familiarity with containerized or ephemeral execution models for CI/CD workloads. (Docker, K8s)
• Passion for simplifying systems, reducing cognitive load, and improving developer experience at scale.