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StarCompliance · 1 month ago

Director Of Platform Engineering

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

StarCompliance is on a mission to make compliance simple and easy. The Director of Platform Engineering will establish and lead the new Platform Engineering function, focusing on unifying SRE and DevOps capabilities and enhancing the software delivery process across the company's SaaS products.

Financial ServicesInformation TechnologySoftware

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Establish, hire, and lead StarCompliance’s new Platform Engineering function, bringing together SRE and DevOps capabilities currently distributed across engineering teams

Coach, mentor, and develop Platform Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, autonomy, and continuous learning in alignment with 'The StarCompliance Way.'

Define and communicate the vision for a modern, cloud-native engineering platform that increases velocity, reliability, and consistency across all product teams

Lead the design, build, and governance of standardized CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, ensuring secure, repeatable, and scalable software delivery across our SaaS platform

Define release orchestration patterns, including automated gating, zero-downtime deployments, rollback processes, and environment promotion workflows

Embed test automation, SRE practices, and telemetry into pipelines to improve delivery confidence and operational reliability

Partner with the Architecture team to evolve Star’s cloud platform, ensuring alignment on patterns, standards, and long-term technical strategy

Translate architectural direction into executable platform capabilities, tooling, automation, and operational processes

Work closely with Engineering squads to ensure platform services meet developer needs while reducing cognitive load and removing delivery bottlenecks

Define and implement SRE practices such as SLIs/SLOs, performance baselines, incident response processes, and error budgets

Oversee modern observability tooling, ensuring rich telemetry, dashboards, alerting, and actionable insights that improve product reliability

Drive continuous improvement through post-incident reviews, resilience engineering, and proactive identification of risks in production systems

Lead the adoption and evolution of Azure cloud services, PaaS components, and infrastructure automation aligned to Star’s SaaS platform roadmap

Establish patterns and templates that ensure secure-by-design delivery, working closely with SecOps to embed security controls into the platform

Champion automation-first principles across infrastructure, environments, and operational workflows

Remain actively involved in hands-on engineering where appropriate - reviewing code, contributing to automation, prototyping solutions, and supporting critical incidents

Drive the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices to increase developer productivity, improve reliability, and accelerate delivery

Qualification

CI/CD pipelinesAzure DevOpsCloud-native architectureSRE practicesPlatform EngineeringInfrastructure automationProgramming languagesLeadershipProblem solvingCommunication skills

Required

Proven experience leading and developing high-performing SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering teams within a SaaS or cloud-native environment

Experience hiring, structuring, and scaling an engineering function from the ground up

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of influencing architecture, product, engineering, and executive stakeholders

Deep expertise in designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (preferred) or equivalent tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab

Strong understanding of cloud-native hybrid architectures including single and multi-tenancy, PaaS services, infrastructure automation, and scalable deployment practices

Hands-on engineering experience in at least one enterprise-grade programming language (C#, Java, Python) and the ability to contribute directly when required

Experience with observability platforms, SRE practices, telemetry pipelines, dashboards, and alerting systems

Significant experience in Azure or another major cloud provider, with strong knowledge of modern cloud services, identity, networking fundamentals, and environment configuration

Experience building internal developer platforms, platform tooling, or standardised release frameworks across multiple product teams

Strong understanding of modern DevOps and SRE principles, including incident response, post-mortems, automation, SLIs/SLOs, and resilience engineering

Familiarity with secure-by-design engineering practices and integrating security controls into CI/CD and cloud platform workflows

Ability to work effectively with SecOps teams without direct ownership of security operations

Demonstrated experience leading complex cloud, platform, or modernisation initiatives in a fast-paced SaaS environment

Ability to evaluate requirements, recommend pragmatic solutions, and drive cross-team outcomes

Strong analytical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills, with a bias for automation and continuous improvement

Degree or Equivalent

Company

StarCompliance

StarCompliance is a provider of regulatory compliance software for the financial services industry.

Founded in 1999

Rockville, Maryland, USA

201-500 employees

http://www.starcompliance.com

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