• Define and own Knox’s DevOps and Platform Engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model. • Build, lead, and scale a multi-disciplinary organization of DevOps Managers, Platform Engineers, and SREs. • Establish clear ownership models, career paths, performance standards, and succession planning. • Champion a DevSecOps culture focused on automation, reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Serve as the executive escalation point for platform reliability, deployment risk, and operational maturity. • Set architectural direction for multi-cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code. • Ensure platform designs and automation meet FedRAMP Moderate/High requirements and NIST 800-53 controls. • Own the enterprise CI/CD strategy supporting multiple product and engineering teams. • Define and track DORA metrics, deployment success rates, and release reliability KPIs. • Partner with NOC and Security teams to improve detection, alerting, and incident response.