Director, Platform Engineering

The OCC

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Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$174,900–$292,300 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
9 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role pays more than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $160,750–$250,587 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $234k versus about $206k for comparable roles.

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About The OCC

The OCC (Options Clearing Corporation) is the world''s largest equity derivatives clearing organization, acting as issuer and guarantor for options and futures contracts to promote stability and market integrity. Industry: Financial Clearing & Derivatives

The OCC currently has 38 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $122,900–$185,300 across 29 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, Platform Engineering

JOB TITLE: Director, Platform Engineering The Director, Platform Engineering leads a team of engineers and managers to drive reliability, observability, and cloud platform engineering excellence within a complex cloud-based computing environment. This people-management role involves mentoring technical teams, managing hiring, and overseeing project prioritization while ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks like CIS and NIST. You will build and mature SRE practices, own the lifecycle of SLOs as code using tools like OpenSLO or Sloth, and deliver golden paths via Terraform modules and Helm charts. Key responsibilities include driving resilience engineering through chaos engineering with AWS FIS or Gremlin and monitoring performance using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. You will also manage DORA metrics and infrastructure-as-code practices to optimize cloud efficiency and improve developer experience across the platform organization.

What you'll do

  • Manage and develop a team of engineers and managers focused on SRE, observability, and cloud platform engineering.
  • Lead hiring, staffing, performance evaluations, and career development plans for the engineering organization.
  • Serve as a technical authority to elevate SRE practices, including SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
  • Own the definition, governance, and lifecycle of SLOs and SLAs using SLO-as-code frameworks.
  • Drive resilience engineering through chaos engineering, load testing, and performance optimization.
  • Deliver "golden path" templates for Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines with built-in observability defaults.
  • Act as the product owner for observability, defining the roadmap and requirements for platform capabilities.
  • Monitor and report on DORA metrics, platform adoption, and observability health to drive continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • 10+ years of progressive hands-on experience in software engineering and 10+ years in IT systems installation, operations, and maintenance.
  • 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams with a focus on talent development and high-performing cultures.
  • Hands-on expertise in SRE, observability, and cloud platform engineering (primarily AWS) for large-scale computing solutions.
  • Proficiency with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/PromQL, and tracing/logging backends like Tempo, Loki, or Splunk.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, Jenkins, and configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
  • Proven track record in SLO/SLA governance, resilience engineering (chaos engineering), and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) at scale.
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification or higher (strongly desired).

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