FORTNA · 1 day ago
Director - Platform Engineering & Development Operations
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
10+ years expFORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. The Director of Platform Engineering & Development Operations will own, evolve, and operate the platform that powers FORTNA’s mission-critical software, leading hands-on design and operational responsibilities across various environments.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, upgrade, and operate RHEL fleets and OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and clusters
Own platform concerns end-to-end: networking, storage, identity, security policies, scaling, and HA/DR
Drive platform standardization through opinionated, well-documented golden paths
Architect and operate the paved path: GitHub Actions → Artifactory → Argo CD
Build reusable GitHub Actions workflows and runners; manage artifact immutability, retention, and provenance
Operate Argo CD at scale: app-of-apps, sync waves, health checks, drift remediation, and secrets
Enable progressive delivery patterns where appropriate
Design and run VMware and/or Nutanix estates, including HA clusters, templates/golden images, micro-segmentation, backup/restore, and capacity planning
Embed security by design into build and promotion pipelines, including SAST, DAST, secret scanning, image signing, SBOMs, and policy-as-code gates
Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Improve deployment frequency and MTTR
Lead incident response and drive blameless post-mortems
Own DR objectives and testing cadence
Enforce no-human-in-prod via RBAC, GitOps controls, and auditable break-glass procedures
Partner closely with Application Engineering, QA, Security, and Architecture
Lead, mentor, and grow Platform/DevOps/SRE engineers
Set quarterly OKRs and platform roadmaps
Drive adoption through reference architectures and enablement
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field; Master's preferred
10+ years in IT, with at least 5 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE leadership
Recent, production-grade RHEL administration and operations
Operating OpenShift (or enterprise Kubernetes) in production: cluster upgrades, operators, networking/ingress, quotas/limits, security contexts, multi-cluster promotion
Operating Argo CD in production (app-of-apps, sync waves/health, drift detection, secrets management; progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts/Flagger or equivalent)
Building/owning GitHub Actions pipelines (reusable workflows, runners) and managing Artifactory (images/charts, immutability, SBOM/attestation, provenance/signing)
Designing/supporting VMware and/or Nutanix environments (HA clusters, templates, storage/network design, backup/restore)
Demonstrated no-dev-in-prod controls, incident leadership, SLO/error-budget practice, and DR testing
Strong people management and team-building capabilities
Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Ability to bridge technical and business objectives
Preferred
AWS/EKS operations (VPC/subnets/NAT, IRSA/IAM, add-ons, KMS/Secrets Manager/SSM, cost guardrails)
IaC at scale (Terraform/Ansible), OPA/Conftest, service mesh, Backstage developer portal
Observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK, Datadog/New Relic) and ITSM integration (ServiceNow/Jira)
AI-assisted engineering (CodeQL, Copilot/ChatGPT) with guardrails
Company
FORTNA
Fortna is a professional services firm helping companies with complex distribution operations meet customer promises.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
THL
2022-04-18Acquired
2019-03-29Private Equity
Leadership Team
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Rob McKeel
Chief Executive Officer
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