• Design and maintain scalable CI/CD systems, self-service workflows, and platform capabilities that support our engineering organization. • Lead and develop a team of 2-4 Platform Engineers through 1:1s, mentoring, goal-setting, and performance management. • Own technical architecture decisions for platform systems by designing solutions that balance developer experience, reliability, and operational simplicity. • Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to drive platform adoption and embed security, reliability, and compliance into workflows. • Drive hiring efforts by refining candidate profiles, interview rubrics, and ensuring assessments validate real-world platform engineering skills. • Foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement where engineers are empowered to propose and drive solutions. • Ensure operational health of platform systems through incident response practices, SLAs, and systematic technical debt reduction. • Champion standardization by establishing golden paths for infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and observability.