Director- Cloud Container Services

Overview

The Cloud Container Platform Product & Engineering Leader owns strategy, roadmap and engineering delivery for enterprise container platforms across public and private clouds, driving secure, scalable, and reusable services for developers. This senior role combines deep technical expertise with product and people leadership to ensure reliable platform operation and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute multi‑year product strategy and roadmap for Kubernetes‑based container platforms across Azure, AWS and private‑cloud environments
• Provide engineering leadership, establish standards, and drive automation, GitOps and self‑service onboarding for the platform
• Enhance developer experience through documented APIs, templates, golden‑path patterns and feedback loops
• Partner with Operations and Service Delivery Managers to set SLAs/SLOs, ensure reliability, capacity, security and disaster‑recovery outcomes
• Lead, mentor and grow a globally distributed engineering team while managing vendor relationships and financial accountability

Eligibility

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related field (advanced degree optional)
• Significant experience leading enterprise‑scale Kubernetes/container platform initiatives across public and private clouds
• Proven people‑management experience building high‑performing, globally distributed engineering teams

Skills