Senior Platform Engineering Lead (Compute & Infrastructure Strategy)

Experteer Overview In this role you lead enterprise compute and virtualization platform initiatives to enable scalable, secure, and automated infrastructure. You will partner with infrastructure, cloud, security and application teams to drive modernization, establish engineering standards, and guide long-term technology direction. You'll shape target architectures, oversee governance and POCs, and advocate IaC and self-service capabilities. This position offers broad impact across the organization and a chance to influence major modernization programs. Compensation / Benefits * Provide technical leadership for enterprise compute and virtualization platforms, including strategic planning, architecture, engineering standards and lifecycle management * Lead platform modernization initiatives, including infrastructure transformation, hypervisor strategy, hardware refresh programs, automation and cloud integration efforts * Develop target-state platform architectures that enable scalability, resiliency, security and operational efficiency * Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends and vendor roadmaps to guide platform investment decisions and long-term technology direction * Define and maintain engineering standards, reference architectures, technical patterns and operational best practices across platform technologies * Lead technical assessments, POCs, platform evaluations and technology validation activities * Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, application and security teams to ensure platform capabilities align with enterprise requirements and business objectives * Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, self-service capabilities and modern platform engineering practices * Provide technical oversight and governance for major platform initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and technology standards * Prepare and deliver executive-level presentations, articulating technology strategies, risks, trade-offs, investment recommendations and modernization roadmaps * Present solution architectures and technology recommendations to Architecture Review Boards, Design Review Committees and senior leadership forums * Serve as a senior technical advisor on compute, virtualization and infrastructure technologies across the organization * Mentor engineering teams and contribute to the advancement of platform engineering capabilities, operational maturity and engineering excellence Tasks * 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, systems architecture, or enterprise technology leadership roles * Deep expertise in enterprise virtualization technologies, including: VMware vSphere (required) * Nutanix AHV and ecosystem technologies (preferred) * Additional hypervisor platforms such as Hyper-V or KVM considered an asset * Strong understanding of enterprise compute platforms, including: Dell PowerEdge and/or HPE ProLiant infrastructure * Blade, rack and converged infrastructure architectures * Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure modernization and transformation programs * Strong knowledge of x86 platform architecture, virtualization, clustering, high availability and disaster recovery technologies * Experience designing and supporting hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-enabled operating models * Demonstrated experience evaluating, documenting and executing complex proof-of-concepts involving multiple stakeholders and technology vendors * Experience developing technology strategies, roadmaps, standards and reference architectures * Strong understanding of automation frameworks and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, GitOps methodologies) * Knowledge of platform engineering concepts, including self-service infrastructure, developer platforms, automation and operational excellence * Experience working within large enterprise environments with formal architecture governance processes * Excellent executive communication skills with the ability to translate technical complexity into business-focused recommendations * Proven ability to influence strategic decisions and drive outcomes across teams without direct authority Key requirements * health insurance * tuition reimbursement * accident and life insurance * retirement savings plans * discretionary bonuses * competitive total compensation

a recommendations and modernization roadmaps * Present solution architectures and technology recommendations to Architecture Review Boards, Design Review Committees and senior leadership forums * Serve as a senior technical advisor on compute, virtualization and infrastructure technologies across the organization * Mentor engineering teams and contribute to the advancement of platform engineering capabilities, operational maturity and engineering excellence Tasks * 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, systems architecture, or enterprise technology leadership roles * Deep expertise in enterprise virtualization technologies, including: VMware vSphere (required) * Nutanix AHV and ecosystem technologies (preferred) * Additional hypervisor platforms such as Hyper-V or KVM considered an asset * Strong understanding of enterprise compute platforms, including: Dell PowerEdge and/or HPE ProLiant infrastructure * Blade, rack and converged infrastructure aaaaa hardware * Proven experience leading large-scale infrastructure modernization and transformation programs * Strong knowledge of x86 platform architecture, virtualization, clustering, high availability and disaster recovery technologies * Experience designing and supporting hybrid cloud architectures and cloud-enabled operating models * Demonstrated experience evaluating, documenting and executing complex proof-of-concepts involving multiple stakeholders and technology vendors * Experience developing technology strategies, roadmaps, standards and reference architectures * Strong understanding of automation frameworks and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python, GitOps methodologies) * Knowledge of platform engineering concepts, including self-service infrastructure, developer platforms, automation and operational excellence * Experience working within large enterprise environments with formal architecture governance processes * Excellent executive communication a aaaQ_ with the ability to translate technical complexity into business-focused recommendations * Proven ability to influence strategic decisions and drive outcomes across teams without direct authority Key requirements * health insurance * tuition reimbursement * accident and life insurance * retirement savings plans * discretionary bonuses * competitive total compensation