Director, Cloud Delivery Platform

Company Description
insightsoftware is a global provider of comprehensive solutions for the Office of the CFO. We believe an actionable business strategy begins and ends with accessible financial data. With solutions across financial planning and analysis (FP&A), accounting, and operations, we transform how teams operate, empowering leaders to make timely and informed decisions. With data at the heart of everything we do, insightsoftware enables automated processes, delivers trusted insights, boosts predictability, and increases productivity. Learn more at

Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Director of Platform Engineering to lead our platform team in transforming how we deliver cloud infrastructure and operations services. This role will be instrumental in building and managing a modern Internal Developer Platform that enables our managed services teams through automation, self-service capabilities, and consultative engineering services.

Key Responsibilities
Platform Leadership & Strategy

• Define and execute the platform engineering vision and roadmap, treating the platform as an internal product
• Lead the transformation from manual processes to a highly automated, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) driven operating model
• Establish platform product management practices, gathering requirements from development and operations teams
• Drive adoption of self-service capabilities targeting a 1:50 platform-to-developer ratio

Team Management & Development

• Build and lead a team of platform engineers, IaC specialists, and automation engineers
• Implement agile/DevOps methodologies within the platform team using Scrum or Kanban frameworks
• Develop comprehensive training and upskilling programs focused on IaC, Kubernetes, and cloud certifications
• Foster a culture of automation-first thinking and continuous improvement

Technical Delivery

• Oversee development of reusable IaC modules and templates (Terraform, Ansible, Packer, etc)
• Implement golden paths and paved roads for common infrastructure patterns
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipeline templates and GitOps workflows
• Integrate platform capabilities with enterprise systems (identity, networking, monitoring, SIEM)

Managed Services Enablement

• Partner with cloud ops managed services teams to eliminate operational toil through automation
• Implement problem management processes
• Develop self-service platform capabilities

Consulting Services

• Establish a consulting framework for complex cloud engineering projects
• Provide architecture reviews and technical guidance for product teams
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives
• Enable knowledge