General Manager, Platform Engineering

You will lead the architecture and engineering of modular, multi-tenant cybersecurity platforms for IT/OT convergence. Your responsibilities will include building and scaling cloud-native infrastructures using AWS/Azure/GCP, ensuring 99.9% uptime, horizontal scalability, and security-by-design principles. You will implement and govern robust CI/CD, IaC (e.g., Terraform), containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and monitoring frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK). Ensuring platform readiness for integration with cybersecurity tools including SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IAM, PKI, and asset discovery platforms will be crucial. Driving DevSecOps maturity across environments, ensuring best practices in secure coding, automated testing, secrets management, and release pipelines will be part of your role. You will define platform engineering OKRs, build sprint governance, and lead agile delivery teams across infrastructure, tooling, and backend development. Collaboration with Product, Delivery, OT Engineering, and GRC teams to ensure platform alignment to business goals, service offerings, and compliance needs is essential. Leading vendor evaluations, tool benchmarking, and integration programs with OEM cybersecurity, cloud, and automation partners is also a key responsibility. You should have 15+ years of experience in technology architecture or platform engineering, with a minimum of 5 years in leadership roles. Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, DevSecOps, SRE, and cybersecurity integrations is required. Experience in microservices, modular platforms, and container orchestration (K8s, Docker) is essential, along with strong exposure to at least two public clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP). Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation, secrets management, and release pipelines is expected. Familiarity with compliance standards such as IEC 62443, NIST CSF, ISO 27001 is a plus. Prior experience in OT/ICS cybersecurity, IT-OT convergence, or critical infrastructure platforms is desirable. You should also have a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, communicate with CXOs, and manage strategic vendors. As for qualifications, you should hold a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Additional specialization in Cybersecurity, Cloud Architecture, or Systems Engineering is a strong plus. Preferred certifications include Cloud Certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or GCP Professional Cloud Architect. Security Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CISA are recommended to demonstrate security leadership. DevOps/Architecture certifications like TOGAF, Kubernetes CKA/CKAD, or HashiCorp Terraform Certification are beneficial. Awareness of Compliance standards such as IEC 62443, or training in NIST/ISO 27001/GRC frameworks would also be advantageous.,