What You’ll Do
- Lead and grow one or more engineering teams responsible for foundational platform capabilities.
- Provide direct management, coaching, career development, and performance feedback for engineers and technical leads.
- Drive predictable delivery through clear planning, ownership, estimation, Jira hygiene, retrospectives, and consistent follow-through.
- Partner with Product Management and engineering leadership to define priorities, clarify requirements, and make thoughtful tradeoffs.
- Participate in architecture discussions and guide technical direction across platform systems.
- Own operational excellence for team-owned services, including reliability, security, incident response, observability, and root-cause follow-up.
- Improve platform services consumed by internal engineering teams and customer-facing products.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering efficiency through AI-assisted development, automation, and better internal tooling.
- Encourage responsible use of AI tools for code understanding, test generation, documentation, operational analysis, and repetitive workflow automation.
- Partner with engineering leaders to evaluate where AI can reduce toil, improve delivery predictability, and help teams move faster without compromising quality, security, or maintainability.
- Ensure production deployments are fast, reliable, secure, and well-supported by automation.
- Help define and mature service ownership, operational scorecards, and platform standards across teams.
- Partner with recruiting to hire, onboard, and retain strong engineering talent.
- Communicate clearly with senior leaders about progress, risk, delivery health, and investment needs.
Platform Scope
Depending on organizational priorities, this role may lead or influence work across
- Appliance operating system ownership, upgrades, hardening, packaging, provisioning, and migrations.
- Hardware and virtual appliance platform enablement.
- Cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, networking, databases, reliability, operations, and alerting.
- Device-to-cloud connectivity and customer lifecycle systems.
- CI/CD, build systems, release automation, developer tooling, and engineering workflow automation.
- Observability, telemetry pipelines, service health dashboards, incident trends, and operational reporting.
- Containerization standards, runtime operations, and secure deployment patterns.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means the Platform team is a trusted partner across engineering: services have clear ownership, teams ship safely and predictably, operational issues are visible and acted on, engineers are growing, and platform investments make the broader product organization faster, safer, and more reliable.
Vectra provides a comprehensive total rewards package that supports the financial, physical, mental and overall health of our employees and their families. Compensation includes competitive base pay, incentive plan eligibility, and participation in the employee equity plan (stock options). Specific benefits offered varies by location, but commonly include health care insurance, income protection / life insurance, access to retirement savings plans, behavioral & emotional wellness services, generous time away from work, and a comprehensive employee recognition program.