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As the Director of Developer Platforms at Zinnia, you will play a crucial role in owning the DevX strategy and leading a team of senior managers and managers to build top-notch infrastructure, tooling, and practices that significantly improve developer productivity, platform resilience, and software delivery velocity. Your responsibilities will include defining and executing the strategic roadmap for Developer Experience and Internal Developer Platforms at Zinnia. You will lead, mentor, and scale a global team across various areas such as CI/CD, observability, dev environments, testing infrastructure, and automation platforms. Collaboration with Engineering, Product, Security, and SRE teams will be essential to design and evolve platform standards that align with Zinnia's rapid growth across regions and product lines. Driving architectural and operational excellence in internal developer systems will be a key focus, encompassing build/deploy pipelines, sandbox environments, telemetry, fault injection systems, and release engineering frameworks. You will ensure that gold standards are transformed into reusable tooling, opinionated golden paths, and secure-by-default frameworks. Additionally, establishing and tracking engineering-wide KPIs related to build times, release cadence, platform availability, MTTR, and test coverage will be crucial. Your role will also involve championing engineering productivity initiatives that enhance team efficiency and safety, from friction audits to self-service tooling. Furthermore, you will lead Zinnia's cultural transformation towards a developer-first engineering mindset characterized by high standards in reliability, security, quality, and delivery. To excel in this role, you should have a solid background in software engineering, with at least 5 years of experience leading infrastructure, platform, or DevX teams at scale. Experience in building or transforming DevX or Developer Platform functions in a modern cloud-native, microservices-based enterprise will be highly beneficial. Strong leadership skills, the ability to manage managers, and a track record of delivering high-impact outcomes through strategy, people, and architecture are essential. Expertise across modern CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, observability frameworks, and quality automation tools is required. Familiarity with tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Playwright, Selenium, JMeter, Chaos Mesh, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and service mesh technologies will be advantageous. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills are also necessary to align technical leaders, engineering teams, and business counterparts effectively. In summary, this role offers a unique opportunity to drive innovation, shape Zinnia's developer platform strategy, and contribute to the company's growth and success in the insurance technology sector.,

Key Responsibilities Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement Oversee the development, operation, and evolution of our developer platforms, focusing on container orchestration with Kubernetes Collaborate with architecture teams and product management to inform platform decisions that enhance developer experience Partner with development teams to understand their needs and optimize the developer experience Establish and track meaningful metrics to measure and improve developer productivity across the organization Manage team priorities, resource allocation, and project delivery while maintaining high operational standards Build strong relationships across engineering teams to ensure platform solutions meet organizational needs Facilitate technical design reviews and contribute insights on platform utilization best practices Help define and drive the platform engineering roadmap in collaboration with stakeholders Required Qualifications 5+ years of experience in platform engineering or DevOps, with at least 3 years in a management role Proven track record of building and operating production-grade Kubernetes platforms Deep understanding of container technologies, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures Experience implementing and managing developer productivity tools and metrics Strong background in automation, infrastructure as code, and site reliability engineering Demonstrated success in leading technical teams and managing stakeholder relationships Experience with agile methodologies and project management Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to balance technical debt with business needs Leadership Competencies Strong mentorship and coaching abilities to develop team members technical and soft skills Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to various audiences Strategic thinking with a focus on long-term platform scalability and sustainability - Proven ability to influence and drive consensus across multiple teams Experience in recruitment, performance management, and career development Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and make data-driven decisions Preferred Qualifications Experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD Understanding of security best practices and compliance requirements Contribution to open-source projects or developer tools Experience with developer experience (DevX) optimization Background in implementing platform observability and monitoring solutions Knowledge of cost optimization strategies for cloud infrastructure Impact & Scope Lead a team responsible for critical developer infrastructure supporting multiple engineering teams Partner with architecture and product teams to align platform implementation with technical strategy Collaborate with engineering leadership to align platform capabilities with business objectives Champion developer experience improvements through effective platform solutions Play a key role in shaping the platform engineering roadmap and strategic initiatives