• Manage a prioritized strategic backlog spanning infrastructure, security, identity, and developer experience • Make daily priority and trade-off decisions autonomously— you are the operational owner • Treat engineering teams as your customers; measure success by their ability to ship with speed and confidence • Run sprint planning, refinement, and capacity allocation for the team • Say "no" or "not yet" to incoming requests with clear rationale and alternatives • Directly manage ~5 platform engineers across infrastructure, security, and DevOps disciplines • Own team health, growth, and career development through regular 1:1s with candid, compassionate feedback • Create an environment where the team feels empowered to take calculated risks and learn from failures • Manage on-call rotation and incident response with a blameless learning culture • Set direction for cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS), CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), and observability (Datadog, App Insights) • Advocate for Infrastructure as Code, identity and access management, and zero-trust security practices • Partner with security and IT to drive governance, compliance, and audit readiness across multiple product lines • Use data (DORA metrics, reliability indicators, developer experience surveys) to measure impact and drive continuous improvement • Interface with external compliance stakeholders (PE firm security teams, audit frameworks) • Coordinate with feature team leads on platform dependencies, onboarding, and access management • Partner with IT on MDM, VPN, and device management initiatives • Communicate platform strategy and progress to engineering leadership.