VP Engineering - Infrastructure & SRE - jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a VP Engineering - Infrastructure & SRE based in United States.

This executive engineering role offers the opportunity to define the future of infrastructure for a fast-growing technology platform operating in a highly demanding financial environment. You will lead the strategy, reliability, security, and evolution of critical cloud infrastructure while remaining technically engaged with the systems you oversee. The position combines organizational leadership with hands-on technical expertise, requiring deep knowledge of cloud platforms, Kubernetes, databases, and site reliability engineering. You will build and mentor high-performing teams while establishing operational excellence, resilience, and scalable engineering practices. Working closely with security, compliance, finance, and engineering stakeholders, you will shape systems that support business growth and customer trust. This is a high-impact opportunity for a technical leader who thrives on solving complex challenges, driving innovation, and improving how infrastructure teams operate at scale.

Accountabilities:

As the VP Engineering - Infrastructure & SRE, you will own the technical vision and execution strategy for infrastructure, platform engineering, and site reliability operations. You will ensure the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of mission-critical systems while building a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

• Define and execute the infrastructure vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap to support platform growth, operational resilience, and compliance requirements.
• Lead, mentor, and scale infrastructure, platform, and SRE teams by developing talent, improving processes, and fostering a culture of ownership and operational excellence.
• Own platform reliability by establishing service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, incident management practices, and measurable reliability improvements.
• Participate in and oversee the on-call rotation, acting as a senior incident leader during critical events by driving investigation, communication, mitigation, and long-term resolution.
• Direct cloud infrastructure strategy, including AWS architecture, account structures, networking, identity management, multi-region capabilities, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Own Kubernetes platform strategy, including architecture, upgrades, workload management, scaling, developer experience, and operational best practices.
• Manage database infrastructure strategy, including availability, performance, migrations, backup processes, recovery planning, and scalability.
• Design and continuously improve disaster recovery and business continuity programs, including testing, failover exercises, and recovery objectives.