Director - Platform Engineering

As Director of Platform Engineering, you will lead the teams responsible for platform engineering, site reliability, DevOps, and production support across critical fixed income trading systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Define and execute the strategic vision for platform engineering and production support functions.
• Lead Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Production Support teams supporting front-office trading applications.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives across Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, and containerized environments.
• Develop and implement reliability, observability, monitoring, and incident management frameworks.
• Own platform stability, resilience, operational readiness, and service availability across production environments.
• Lead cloud transformation initiatives across both AWS and Azure.
• Establish DevOps best practices, CI/CD standards, automation frameworks, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Partner closely with trading, application development, architecture, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable and highly available solutions.
• Oversee major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous improvement programs.
• Drive operational excellence through KPI measurement, SLA management, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering and production support teams.

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.