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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # VP, Engineering - Platform Infrastructure & Operations - **Company:** Datasite LLC - **Location:** Minneapolis, MN, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $201,000.0 - $361,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Code Generation, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Systems Development Life Cycle, Reliability Engineering, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Multi-Cloud, Technical Debt - **Published:** August 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2807fa78358632ed ## About the Role * 10+ years in engineering leadership, with at least 3-5 years at VP level * Proven leadership experience in a large-scale, global SaaS organization supporting mission-critical products with demanding availability, performance, and scalability requirements. * Experience operating platforms that serve a global customer base, with expertise in designing and managing highly available, resilient, and geographically distributed infrastructure. * Proven experience leading SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure organizations at scale (40+ engineers) * Technical depth sufficient to engage credibly on architecture, system design, and operational trade-offs - not just manage process * Experience owning or closely partnering with a technical support or application support function * Deep familiarity with multi-cloud environments and modern infrastructure patterns (IaC, GitOps, containers, observability) * Track record owning and meeting high-availability SLAs in a production SaaS environment * Experience integrating acquired infrastructure assets into a platform organization * Strong executive communication skills; ability to manage up with low noise and high signal * Demonstrated ability to develop leaders - with examples of people you've led going on to senior roles Strongly Preferred * Hands-on experience deploying AI/ML tooling for developer productivity at scale * Background in product-led, fast-paced SaaS organizations * Familiarity with centralized platform governance in a multi-team environment * Experience contributing to M&A technical due diligence ## Description We are seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead our Infrastructure & Platform Engineering organization, overseeing Cloud, SRE, CI/CD & SDLC, and Application Support. This executive will lead approximately 50 engineers through four Directors and be responsible for building a highly reliable, scalable, and efficient platform that enables the business to grow. This role requires a leader who combines deep technical credibility with executive leadership. The ideal candidate can engage on architecture, system design, and operational trade-offs while developing a high-performing, self-managing organization that delivers enterprise-grade reliability with minimal executive escalation., * Lead four Directors and ~50 engineers across Cloud, SRE, CI/CD & SDLC, and Application Support * Build and sustain a high-ownership culture where teams operate with minimal escalation * Develop Directors as leaders; hold them accountable for delivery, reliability, and team health * Drive headcount planning, hiring, and retention strategy in partnership with HR and Finance * Identify and grow future leaders - create paths for top performers to advance within and beyond your organization Technical Leadership * Provide technical leadership on architecture, system design, and engineering quality across the platform organization. * Establish and drive engineering standards for infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, reliability, and operational excellence. * Influence long-term platform strategy and architectural direction in partnership with Engineering and business leaders. * Champion platform health by proactively addressing technical debt and driving investments that improve reliability, scalability, and engineering velocity. * Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-powered developer tools and cloud platform innovations, and make strategic build, buy, or adopt decisions. Platform Reliability & Operations * Own the 99.95% uptime SLA across a multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) production environment * Define and enforce SLOs, error budgets, and incident response processes across all teams * Ensure on-call rotations, runbooks, and postmortem culture are mature and continuously improving Application Support * Lead and scale the Application Support organization, delivering consistent, enterprise-grade support across products and business units. * Own the tier-2/tier-3 technical escalation function, serving as the bridge between Customer Support and Engineering. * Ensure the team has the tools, access, and expertise to efficiently investigate and resolve complex customer issues. * Establish a closed-loop process that translates customer issue trends and root causes into prioritized engineering improvements, with defined SLAs for escalation response and resolution. * Serve as the executive escalation point for high-severity customer issues, ensuring effective resolution and continuous operational improvement. Acquisition Integration * Lead technical integration of infrastructure and platform assets from multiple small acquisitions per year * Own and evolve a repeatable integration playbook: cloud tenancy, CI/CD onboarding, monitoring, support handoff, and app support coverage * Assess acquisition infrastructure risk pre-close and provide VP-level input to M&A technical due diligence Engineering Productivity & AI Tooling * Champion AI-powered developer tooling as a productivity multiplier across the engineering organization * Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to evaluate and roll out AI tooling: code generation, observability, incident management, and beyond * Define and track metrics to demonstrate productivity improvements over time Platform Strategy & Architecture * Own the multi-year platform and infrastructure roadmap in alignment with product and business strategy * Drive standardization and centralization of infrastructure management across the organization Executive Stakeholder Management * Proactively communicate platform health, risk, and roadmap to the C-suite - escalating only what truly requires executive attention * Translate complex infrastructure and support decisions into business-level context for non-technical stakeholders * Represent Engineering in cross-functional forums: product planning, security reviews, finance, and customer escalations ## Related Videos - [The Open-source Java SDK for Multi-Cloud Development - Sandeep Pal](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2113-the-open-source-java-sdk-for-multi-cloud-development-sandeep-pal) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Resolving technical debts in software architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1680-resolving-technical-debts-in-software-architecture) - [The Cloud is Calling: Answer with In-Demand Skills](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/945-the-cloud-is-calling-answer-with-in-demand-skills) - [Leverage Cloud Computing Benefits with Serverless Multi-Cloud ML ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/78-leverage-cloud-computing-benefits-with-serverless-multi-cloud-ml) - [Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/885-platform-engineering-vs-devops-why-not-both) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production)