The Director, Platform Engineering & DevOps is responsible for supporting and executing Fortrea's Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, and Software Delivery strategy in alignment with established enterprise standards. This leader is accountable for managing the engineering platforms, cloud infrastructure, automation capabilities, and developer experience that enable secure, scalable, reliable, and efficient software delivery across the enterprise.
This role will lead Fortrea's transformation toward a modern engineering platform by driving adoption of AI-assisted software engineering, cloud-native architectures, Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps, and intelligent automation practices.
Working closely with Product Engineering, Architecture, Security, Data & AI, Infrastructure, and Technology Leadership, the Director will establish the technical foundations that accelerate engineering productivity, improve developer experience, increase deployment velocity, strengthen operational resilience, and enable engineering teams to rapidly deliver innovative, high-quality products.
This position is accountable for engineering productivity, software delivery performance, cloud engineering standards, platform reliability, operational excellence, AI-enabled engineering capabilities, and continuous modernization of Fortrea's engineering ecosystem.
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Summary of Responsibilities:
Support and execute Fortrea's Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, and Software Delivery strategy aligned with business and technology objectives.
Build, lead, mentor, and develop Engineering Managers, Platform Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers, Cloud Engineers, and technical leaders while creating strong succession plans and career development opportunities.
Establish and evolve Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), reusable engineering services, self-service developer capabilities, golden paths, engineering templates, and developer portals that improve engineering productivity and reduce cognitive load.
Treat engineering platforms as products by partnering with engineering teams, measuring platform adoption, collecting customer feedback, and continuously improving platform capabilities.
Lead enterprise adoption of AI-assisted software engineering tools and intelligent automation that improve software development, infrastructure provisioning, testing, documentation, deployment, security validation, operational support, and engineering productivity.
Evaluate emerging AI technologies including coding assistants, AI agents, autonomous remediation, predictive operations, and intelligent engineering platforms.
Drive enterprise engineering modernization through cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, containers, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation-first engineering practices, and platform engineering.
Establish enterprise standards for CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, release automation, cloud operations, configuration management, deployment automation, and engineering governance.
Build scalable cloud platforms supporting modern software delivery using Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, API management, and cloud-native services.
Establish Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), error budgets, operational readiness reviews, reliability engineering, and resilience frameworks.
Drive enterprise adoption of DevSecOps practices including security-by-design, software supply chain security, secrets management, automated compliance, vulnerability management, SBOM generation, and secure software delivery.
Champion Developer Experience (DevEx) initiatives through self-service engineering platforms, engineering automation, developer tooling, standardized environments, and streamlined software delivery…