Vizrt is undergoing an exciting transformation from on-premises systems to modern cloud and SaaS solutions, and we’re looking for a visionary Director of Platform to lead this evolution. This role is perfect for a technical leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy, systems reliability, and hands-on engineering excellence.
You will be responsible for building and leading a world-class platform organization focused on delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance infrastructure. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll design and implement critical platform services—including CI/CD, observability, developer experience, IAM, and more—that empower our product teams to ship quickly and confidently.
This is a high-impact role for a hands-on leader passionate about cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and enabling engineering excellence across the business.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead & Inspire: Drive technical vision and execution while mentoring and growing a high-performing DevOps/Platform team.
- Architect Scalable Systems: Design and maintain cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS) that is secure, resilient, and scalable.
- Automate Everything: Champion infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD best practices, and platform automation to streamline developer workflows.
- Drive Operational Excellence: Establish best practices for monitoring, logging, and alerting. Own uptime, incident response, and performance.
- Enhance Security & Compliance: Collaborate with the Security team to proactively address vulnerabilities and enforce industry standards.
- Optimize Costs: Ensure efficient use of cloud resources through cost-aware architecture and governance.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with engineering, product, sales, and support to align platform capabilities with customer needs and business goals
- 10+ years in a senior engineering or technical leadership role (SRE, DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure).
- Deep experience with AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFormation, networking, IAM, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (CDK, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet).
- Strong programming/scripting in Python, Typescript/JavaScript, Bash or similar.
- Proven success scaling platform operations in a cloud/SaaS environment.
- Excellent communicator with a people-first leadership style.
- Experience overseeing complex projects and driving platform roadmaps.
- Passion for modern DevOps, SRE principles, and developer productivity.
- Recruiter Screening
- Team Interview
- Technical Discussion
- Final Interview
Top Skills
What We Do
Vizrt is the leader in real-time graphics and live production solutions for content creators.
With a 25-year history of inventing new simplified workflows for storytelling whether it is in the news, sports, broadcast, education, entertainment, live events, digital media, advertising, or anywhere else video lives, Vizrt has helped define and reshape the way video is created and shared with the world.
Dedicated to delivering ground-breaking solutions for customers across graphics, cloud, remote and live production, live streaming, sports productions, virtual reality and virtual studios, and infrastructure – Vizrt enables more stories, better told.
In a world where attention spans are short, grabbing and holding onto audiences for entertainment, education or information requires craft, design, and vision. Vizrt’s team of 24/7 on-call experts and market-leading creative solutions, offers everything storytellers need to dazzle audiences, simply, effectively, and beautifully.
Billions of people watch stories or video powered by Vizrt everyday including from media companies such as Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, CBS, ESPN, FOX, NBC, NHL, NFL, NRK, Sky Group, The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, New York Giants, Nickelodeon, CBS Radio, ESPN Radio, MTV, USA TODAY, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), NASA, PWC, and more than 80% of the U.S. Fortune 100.
Vizrt is a global company with 700 employees in over 40 countries and is privately owned by Nordic Capital
