Director of Platform Engineering
BrazilFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSLeadershipTerraform
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or security leadership within SaaS or fintech environments.
- Proven track record of managing infrastructure, security, and IT teams in high-growth, fast-paced organizations.
- Deep expertise in AWS services such as ECS Fargate, Aurora PostgreSQL, IAM, KMS, S3, and VPC.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Terragrunt.
- Strong knowledge of security frameworks and compliance standards including SOC 2 Type II, GLBA, CCPA, and ideally PCI DSS.
- Experience owning vendor management, cloud cost optimization, and large-scale infrastructure budgets.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong sense of ownership and autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Own and scale the end-to-end platform infrastructure, including AWS architecture, cloud cost optimization, and system reliability across multiple accounts and services.
- Lead security, compliance, and risk management programs, ensuring adherence to standards such as SOC 2 Type II, GLBA, and CCPA.
- Oversee IT operations, vendor management, and tooling strategy, including consolidation and optimization of third-party services and contracts.
- Define and execute incident response, monitoring, and cybersecurity strategies using modern observability and security tools.
- Build and lead a high-performing Platform Engineering organization spanning infrastructure, security, and IT support functions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, legal, finance, and customer success teams.
- Drive automation and operational excellence to reduce engineering toil.
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