Senior Director Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Lif*** Technology team is at the forefront of the evolution of Lif*** into a digital-first company, transforming existing experiences and creating brand new ones both online and in our clubs. If you enjoy a fast-paced environment with the latest technologies and have a passion for health and fitness – we should meet.

Benefits

Qualifications

• The Lif*** Technology team is at the forefront of the evolution of Lif*** into a digital-first company, transforming existing experiences and creating brand new ones both online and in our clubs.
• Minimum
• 15+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, including 7+ leading engineering teams.
• Hands-on fluency with IaC tooling (Terraform required; Ansible a plus).
• Demonstrated experience building or maturing an SRE or platform engineering function — not just running ops.
• Architectural-level knowledge of AWS and/or Azure (networking, compute, identity, storage, cost).
• Experience owning an enterprise identity platform (Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, or equivalent) and Zero Trust principles.
• Proven ability to shift team culture and practices toward engineering excellence.
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred
• Building an internal developer platform or self-service infrastructure layer.
• GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux).

Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering
• Lead the design, build, and operation of cloud, data center, and hybrid infrastructure on engineering-first principles.
• Drive IaC adoption so infrastructure is version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and deployed through automated pipelines — manual change is the exception.
• Own capacity planning, lifecycle management, and modernization of on-prem data center and storage.
• Define the hybrid-cloud strategy: what stays on-prem, what moves, and the engineering path to get there.
• Site Reliability & Operational Excellence
• Establish SRE practices: SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, and reliability data that drives investment.
• Shift the model from incident response to failure prevention — observable, self-healing platforms designed for graceful degradation.
• Champion blameless postmortems and engineering-led root cause analysis.
• Identity & Access Management
• Own and modernize the enterprise identity platform: directory services, PAM, and SSO/federation.
• Partner with Security to reduce standing access, enforce least privilege, and enable secure self-service.

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