VP - Platform

Role Summary The VP Platform runs the current infrastructure while building the target platform. This is an operating role and a transformation role. The role keeps existing SaaS environments stable, builds the new cloud-native platform, owns the Oracle to Postgres migration pipeline, establishes the security practice, and brings platform engineering discipline into the way teams ship. Platform Operations Own infrastructure across current and target environments. Define and operate platform SLOs. Manage environment provisioning, access, capacity, and decommissioning. Reduce cloud waste through shared infrastructure, capacity discipline, and retention controls. Target Platform Build the shared platform foundation for Kubernetes, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Kong, observability, and CI/CD. Establish standards for deployments, secrets, networking, monitoring, tracing, and release automation. Make platform capabilities usable by domain teams without each team having to invent its own tooling. Migration Engineering Own the Oracle to Postgres migration pipeline with the migration engineering team. Define migration throughput, data validation, rollback readiness, and post-migration checks. Work with domain teams and Principal QA on parity, shadow, pilot, and cutover readiness. Security And Reliability Build the security practice and baseline controls. Establish incident response, on-call, alerting, and production review practices. Drive SOC2 / ISO 27001 readiness where needed. Team Building Lead a distributed platform organization across infrastructure, DBA, security, DevOps/SRE, internal IT, and migration engineering. Hire senior platform, security, SRE, and DevOps talent where the current team has gaps. Grow junior engineers into a disciplined platform practice. Required Experience 18+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, database operations, or cloud operations. Experience leading teams of meaningful size and mixed seniority. Deep experience in at least two of Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Azure/AWS, Kafka, observability, or security operations. Experience running production systems while modernizing them. Strong understanding of multi-tenant SaaS operations, access control, reliability, and incident management. Hands-on comfort with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling. Helpful Experience Oracle to Postgres migration experience. Retail, ERP, POS, OMS, or e-commerce platform experience. Experience building a platform team from an early stage. Familiarity with .NET, Java/Spring Boot, and mixed-stack modernization. Compliance exposure, including ISO 27001, SOC2, penetration testing, or security audits. .