CrossTab IT Consulting
Website:
crosstab.in
Job details:
About the Role:
We are seeking a Platform Director for our client, a Software Product company head quartered in London.
Platform Director leads the buildout and orchestration of enterprise-grade AI platform services, leveraging Kubernetes, cloud platform services, and modern identity frameworks. This leadership role oversees mission-oriented platform pods and ensures secure, scalable, and reliable capabilities for internal and external products across cloud-first and hybrid environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee orchestration, deployment, and lifecycle management of platform services on Kubernetes
- Define patterns for containerized workloads, service mesh, scaling, resilience, observability, and multitenant operations
- Drive architecture and delivery of platform capabilities built on cloud platform services (e.g., Functions, API Management, Event Grid, Service Bus, Key Vault, Storage)
- Lead integration with modern identity solutions for secure external identity federation and cross-tenant collaboration
- Manage delivery of mission-oriented pods (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation as a Service, Agent as a Service, Chat Service)
- Ensure enterprise reliability, zero-downtime deployments, and continuous improvement
- Lead managers, architects, and senior engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and compliance
Required Experience:
- Extensive experience managing platform engineering or delivery teams, including leadership of leaders
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, container platforms, and distributed systems
- Deep understanding of cloud platform services and cloud-native enterprise architecture
- Experience with identity management and federation
- Proven ability to deliver large-scale, mission-critical, multitenant platforms with zero-downtime deployment practices
- Experience launching and operating enterprise platforms across cloud-first and hybrid environments
- Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience with agent-based service architectures is preferred
Ready to make an impact?
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