Senior Platform Engineering Lead (Compute & Infrastructure Strategy)

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for enterprise compute and virtualization platforms, including strategic planning, architecture, engineering standards and lifecycle management.
• Lead platform modernization initiatives, including infrastructure transformation, hypervisor strategy, hardware refresh programs, automation and cloud integration efforts.
• Develop target-state platform architectures that enable scalability, resiliency, security and operational efficiency.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends and vendor roadmaps to guide platform investment decisions and long-term technology direction.
• Define and maintain engineering standards, reference architectures, technical patterns and operational best practices across platform technologies.
• Lead technical assessments, proof-of-concepts (POCs), platform evaluations and technology validation activities.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, application and security teams to ensure platform capabilities align with enterprise requirements and business objectives.
• Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, self-service capabilities and modern platform engineering practices.
• Provide technical oversight and governance for major platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and technology standards.
• Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations, articulating technology strategies, risks, trade-offs, investment recommendations and modernization roadmaps.
• Present solution architectures and technology recommendations to Architecture Review Boards, Design Review Committees and senior leadership forums.
• Serve as a senior technical advisor on compute, virtualization and infrastructure technologies across the organization.
• Mentor engineering teams and contribute to the advancement of platform engineering capabilities, operational maturity and engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, systems architecture, or enterprise technology leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in enterprise virtualization technologies, including: VMware vSphere (required) Nutanix AHV and ecosystem technologies (preferred) Additional hypervisor platforms such as Hyper-V or KVM considered an asset
• VMware vSphere (required)
• Nutanix AHV and ecosystem technologies (preferred)
• Additional hypervisor platforms such as Hyper-V or KVM considered an asset
• Strong understanding of enterprise compute platforms, including: Dell PowerEdge and/or HPE ProLiant infrastructure Blade, rack and converged infrastructure architectures
• Dell PowerEdge and/or HPE ProLiant infrastructure
• Blade, rack and converged infrastructure architectures
• Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure modernization and transformation programs.
• Strong knowledge of x86 platform architecture, virtualization, clustering, high availability and disaster recovery technologies.
• Experience designing and supporting hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-enabled operating models.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating, documenting and executing complex proof-of-concepts involving multiple stakeholders and technology vendors.
• Experience developing technology strategies, roadmaps, standards and reference architectures.
• Strong understanding of automation frameworks and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, GitOps methodologies).
• Knowledge of platform engineering concepts, including self-service infrastructure, developer platforms, automation and operational excellence.
• Experience working within large enterprise environments with formal architecture governance processes.
• Excellent executive communication skills with the ability to translate technical complexity into business-focused recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence strategic decisions and drive outcomes across teams without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting financial services, regulated industries, or large-scale enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with container platforms and modern application infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Experience integrating platform engineering practices with cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure solutions.
• Industry certifications such as VMware VCP/VCAP, Nutanix NCP, Azure, AWS, TOGAF, or equivalent.

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