Lead Platform Engineer - DevOps / Site Reliability

The Role - Lead Platform Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer with extensive Software Engineering background and strong business acumen to join and help lead our rapidly growing global team supporting SaaS products.

What You Will Own :

• Build, manage, and mentor a high-performing Platform Engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous development.
• Ensure timely and efficient delivery of the teams project and reactive work to support the needs of the business in alignment with Product and Technology Roadmaps
• Provide coaching, training, and career development opportunities to strengthen the team's skills and performance
• Ensure effective planning and allocation of team capacity through project management, planning / estimation, risk management and predictable delivery while creating visibility of all work
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring across teams through knowledge sharing sessions, pair programming, code reviews and solution design
• Translate business problems and complex requirements into simple, tractable technical solutions
• Contribute to the preparation and execution of Product & Technology roadmaps
• Implement and maintain monitoring / alerting / logging systems to identify and respond to incidents
• Conduct / participate in Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) and blameless post-mortems
• Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system reliability and rapid incident response.
• Ensure scalability and efficiency of cloud infrastructure and systems to handle traffic and data growth
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to design / build fit-for-purpose and observable software
• Lead innovation within the platform team, and ensure that successful ideas are evangelized and propagated across the company.

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

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