Head of Platform

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Requirements:

• 2-4 years of work experience in a demanding environment (corporate, top-tier consulting, or similar).
• A STEM or business degree from a leading university (Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or equivalent).
• At heart, you are an entrepreneur with a strong customer-first mindset and an excellent sense for building and managing client relationships.
• Outstanding Stakeholder Management – The ability to communicate complex topics clearly and align technical and non-technical teams. You’ll work with all acquired companies. Help them to understand their unique needs while maintaining a minimum stack of centralized infrastructure.
• Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure teams, with a strong ability to mentor, deploy resources strategically, and drive technical excellence.
• Commercial and Strategic Mindset – an understanding of how platform engineering drives business growth, not just technical efficiency.
• A track record of managing roadmaps and budgets, balancing cost efficiency, and aligning infrastructure spending with business goals.
• Deep expertise in platform security, particularly zero-trust implementations, access control, and vulnerability management.
• Strong technical proficiency in automation, and monitoring tools.
• A data-driven mindset with experience defining KPIs, creating dashboards, and using metrics to improve platform scalability and efficiency.
• Bias for Action – A proactive, ownership-driven approach to problem-solving and execution.
• Passion for open-source solutions and their role in driving innovation, cost reduction, and scalability.
• Excellent collaboration skills, able to work closely with leadership, finance, and engineering teams to ensure the platform’s success.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor the Platform team, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation while strategically deploying resources to support acquired and portfolio companies.
• Develop and execute a yearly roadmap for your team that connects strategic goals to day-to-day operations, while managing and optimizing the platform budget, balancing infrastructure costs and tool investments.
• Champion zero-trust security principles across the platform, ensuring robust identity verification and least-privilege access, leveraging Google Workspace as an IdP.
• Oversee the integration and optimization of key tools, including AWS, GitHub Enterprise, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring solutions to maximize efficiency and reliability.
• Partner with acquired brands to address infrastructure challenges, deliver custom automation tools, and advocate best practices while respecting individual company needs.
• Define and track platform performance through KPIs, dashboards, and data-driven automation, ensuring scalability and operational efficiency.
• Drive the adoption of open-source solutions to enhance scalability, cost-efficiency, and platform innovation.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, finance, and leadership, to align platform initiatives with broader business objectives.