About the Role
This is a transformational leadership opportunity for a technology leader passionate about redefining software development, deployment, and support through innovative technologies, AI, automation, and modern platform engineering. The role drives the evolution from traditional DevSecOps to an AI-enabled, autonomous engineering ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the enterprise Platform Engineering strategy supporting Consumer Products and Corporate Technology.
- Lead the evolution of engineering platforms to improve developer experience, platform consistency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Establish enterprise standards for platform architecture, engineering automation, and software delivery.
- Drive adoption of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), Infrastructure as Code, cloud platform engineering, Kubernetes, container platforms, release engineering, environment management, artifact repositories, secrets management, observability platforms, and platform networking.
- Build reusable engineering capabilities enabling product teams to deliver software securely and efficiently.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (Master’s preferred) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent academic or professional experience.
- Progressive leadership experience managing enterprise Platform Engineering and DevSecOps organizations.
- Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams.
- Demonstrated success building modern cloud-native engineering platforms.
- Deep understanding of Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Application Security, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, and engineering automation.
- Experience implementing AI-enabled software development capabilities and autonomous engineering practices.
- Experience managing enterprise technology budgets and strategic vendor relationships.
- Strong executive communication and organizational transformation skills.
Skills
- Platform Engineering
- DevSecOps
- AI
- Automation
- Platform Engineering practices
- Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud platform engineering
- Kubernetes
- Container platforms
- Release engineering
- Environment management
- Artifact repositories
- Secrets management
- Observability platforms
- Platform networking
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Application Security
- Cloud infrastructure
- Developer platforms
- Engineering automation
- AI-enabled software development capabilities
- Autonomous engineering practices
- Executive communication
- Organizational transformation
Location
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Stamford, CT
- Remote (eligible states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming)
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Full-time in office
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- Progressive leadership experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent academic or professional experience
- Master's degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $208,547 - $244,000
- Annual Incentive Target: 20.00%
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- 401k matching
About the Company
- A+E Global Media operates on a flexible model that allows for remote, hybrid or full time in office work.
- A+E’s Technology team is deep-rooted in the heart of our business.
- A+E Global Media is a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.
Equal Opportunity
- A+E Global Media proudly provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants, and makes employment decisions consistent with this principle.
- The company’s employment actions and decisions – including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, compensation, transfer, layoff, and termination – are made without regard to an employee’s race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin, ancestry, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, alienage or citizenship status, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, family and medical leave status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.
