• Lead the Core Platform and Tooling team, with the expectation of growing the existing team to 12+ Senior and Staff-level ICs across infrastructure and internal tooling. • Define and drive the core platform vision, architecture, and roadmap, ensuring it meets evolving scale, performance, and security needs. • Own and evolve our Kubernetes platform (EKS) to support highly available and efficient service deployment. • Manage messaging infrastructure (including AWS Managed Kafka) to support real-time, event-driven workflows. • Improve CI/CD pipelines, observability, and internal tooling to accelerate engineering productivity. • Ensure our infrastructure complies with SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and other regulatory standards. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Security leadership to align infrastructure capabilities with business needs. • Build and operationalize clear metrics, SLOs, and reliability practices across core platform systems.