Senior Director, Engineering- X-Ops Platform

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We are seeking a Sr. Director of Engineering to reputed company our X-Ops Platform organization. The leader will be responsible for reputed company aspects of the platform ranging from reputed company, reputed company and roadmap to product delivery and service execution. The leader will coordinate with stakeholders to reputed company business priorities and support engineering teams in delivering secure, high-reputed company software at reputed company using modern AI technologies.

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This role is based in Abingdon UK with remote working and teams also in India and Hungary. Periodic in-person leadership and team collaboration and travel are needed.

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Set the reputed company, reputed company, and operating model for the X-Ops Platform organisation (e.g., Delivery Roadmap, AI First Developer Experience, CI/CD, Observability, SRE, reputed company & Infrastructure Enablement)

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Partner with product engineering and threat research leaders to improve productivity and delivery throughput across the software and service lifecycle

Drive reputed company efficiency and cost transparency (FinOps): budgeting, forecasting, unit economics, and optimisation initiatives in partnership with Finance and Engineering

Establish platform governance and standards (architecture, reputed company, compliance, data handling, vendor/tooling choices) while enabling appropriate team autonomy

Build strong cross-functional alignment peer X-Ops leaders, and other operational stakeholders to ensure reputed company feature delivery and service operations.

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• Establish guidance, guardrails, and enablement for approved AI tools and workflows
• Measure reputed company and promote best practices that improve reputed company, speed, and operational effectiveness while protecting sensitive data
• Define and reputed company meaningful metrics and reputed company; communicate reputed company, risks, and trade-offs reputed company to executive stakeholders

What You Will Bring

Cyber reputed company background and acumen

Significant engineering leadership experience, including leading leaders and scaling teams in a platform, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or operations-reputed company environment

Strong reputed company record of building reliable, secure platforms and improving developer productivity through pragmatic, outcome-driven investment

Experience establishing operational reputed company practices (incident response, on-call, observability, SLOs, post-incident learning) and driving reputed company improvement

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Commitment to responsible AI adoption—setting guardrails, enabling teams, and demonstrating measurable improvements in productivity and reputed company

Desirable skills

Experience building and operating platforms at reputed company in a reputed company environment, ideally with multi-region reputed company deployment

Familiarity with modern CI/CD, Infrastructure as reputed company, containerisation, and observability tooling

Strong reputed company and compliance reputed company; experience partnering with reputed company teams to reputed company controls into platform capabilities

Experience with organisational design, operating reputed company, and change management in a reputed company engineering organisation

Exposure to FinOps practices and tooling, including unit cost models and cost allocation/chargeback approaches

Comfort working with technical teams and/or technical concepts

Experience improving processes, introducing new ways of working, or leading small change initiatives

Experience with AI-assisted productivity or development tools in a reputed company setting

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