Platform Engineering Director

Why this role matters:

The Vonage Platform Engineering Team is responsible for providing an industry leading PaaS internal development platform. This platform is critical to the success of Vonage’s technology teams and the simplification & standardization of our infrastructure. Vonage in partnership with Ericsson is defining new products and services that will power networks around the world.

Your key responsibilities:

• Leading multiple teams globally in the development and management of the Vonage Internal Developer Platform.
• Embrace Vonage culture and lead by example.
• Participating in all architecture discussions within the Vonage Architecture forum to ensure we’re providing the best solutions to the technical challenges within Vonage.
• Maintaining the platform both in the development and production environments. This includes participating in and maintaining the on-call rotation for your department. 
• All cost budgeting and cost forecasting for the systems you maintain across all vendors.
• All decisions around hiring globally for the teams within your organization. 
• Ensure alignment with teams hosted within the PaaS platform are using Vonage resources in the most cost effective methods.
• The security of the PaaS platform in conjunction with the Security teams.
• All compliance requirements for the PaaS platform. 
• Continuous improvement of the PaaS platform based on customer feedback.

What will you bring:

• 5-10 years of experience leading teams.
• 5+ maintaining a Kubernetes based platform.
• Expertise implementing CNCF tools like, ArgoCD, Kyverno, Karpenter and others.
• A demonstrate experience managing and leading company wide projects.
• Significant experience working within the AWS environment.
• A deep understanding of DevSecOps processes.
• Leadership, ability to develop and grow your team.
• Extensive knowledge of platform engineering theory.
• Extensive experience automating development processes.
• A robust results-driven mindset and dynamic approach.
• A customer-driven focus and flexibility to succeed in a fast-paced environment.
• An ability to collaborate across different teams in the organization, gaining support and buy-in for projects and strategic initiatives.
• Creativity and ideas - continuously pushing to improve Vonage’s technical environment.
• Passion for delivering excellence.
• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science and/or related work experience.
• Confident coding and debugging in languages such as Python, Go and Ruby.
• Experience with tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Fluent and comfortable working with Cloud Infrastructure including Infrastructure as Code.

Experience we consider a plus:

• Experience with Hashicorp Nomad and Consul.
• Experience within the Google GCP Environment.
• Experience building SRE teams within organizations.
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