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Bankrate · 2 weeks ago

Head of Platform Engineering | Bankrate

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$200K/yr - $285K/yr

10+ years exp

Bankrate is a leading financial services platform helping millions of consumers make smarter financial decisions. The Head of Platform Engineering will lead the platform engineering function, overseeing AWS cloud infrastructure, security, and developer productivity platforms while collaborating with external partners and implementing modern technologies to enhance innovation and efficiency.

BankingCommercial LendingConsumerCreditCredit CardsFinancial ServicesInsurancePersonal Finance

Responsibilities

Define and execute the vision for Bankrate’s platform with a focus on operational excellence, reliability, and developer productivity

Identify and adopt modern tools and architectures that improve efficiency, reliability, and time-to-market

Align platform capabilities with business priorities and external partner needs

Serve as a player-coach leader- balancing hands-on technical contribution with mentoring, guiding, and developing a high-performing team of engineers

Lead the evolution of our AWS environment for performance, resilience, and cost efficiency

Implement and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to maintain reliability

Manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) for consistent, secure deployments

Act as the primary technology contact for security assessments with customers, financial institutions, and other partners

Ensure compliance with SOC 2, GDPR, and other regulatory standards

Build trusted relationships with partner technology and security teams

Own and enhance in-house developer tooling to provide visibility into security, deployments, repositories, and operational health

Oversee CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for containerized and serverless applications

Improve local development environments, reduce build/deploy friction, and streamline onboarding

Enhance observability, monitoring, and incident response capabilities

Build and mentor a high-performing platform and SRE team

Manage relationships with key vendors and technology providers

Qualification

AWS cloud infrastructureInfrastructure as CodeSRE principlesCI/CD pipelinesContainerization DockerContainerization KubernetesProgramming languages PythonProgramming languages JavaScriptProgramming languages BashSecurity complianceStakeholder managementLeadership skillsCommunication skills