Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Life Time Inc. is a leading Healthy Way of Life brand focused on transforming its technology foundation. The Senior Director of Platform Engineering will oversee the development and operation of core platforms, ensuring they meet the needs of internal engineering teams and drive proactive, product-driven engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, build, and operation of cloud, data center, and hybrid infrastructure on engineering-first principles
- Drive IaC adoption so infrastructure is version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and deployed through automated pipelines — manual change is the exception
- Own capacity planning, lifecycle management, and modernization of on-prem data center and storage
- Define the hybrid-cloud strategy: what stays on-prem, what moves, and the engineering path to get there
- Establish SRE practices: SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, and reliability data that drives investment
- Shift the model from incident response to failure prevention — observable, self-healing platforms designed for graceful degradation
- Champion blameless postmortems and engineering-led root cause analysis
- Own and modernize the enterprise identity platform: directory services, PAM, and SSO/federation
- Partner with Security to reduce standing access, enforce least privilege, and enable secure self-service
- Run the internal developer platform as a product, with a prioritized backlog, adoption metrics, and developer satisfaction as a north-star KPI
- Give teams frictionless self-service access to compute, secrets, and deployment tooling — the best platform interaction needs no ticket
- Build and grow a high-performing team — hiring for engineering depth, developing people, and fostering ownership
- Manage operating and capital budgets transparently, framing investment in terms of reliability, velocity, and risk
- Communicate strategy, risks, and progress to executive stakeholders in business terms
Skills
- 15+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, including 7+ leading engineering teams
- Hands-on fluency with IaC tooling (Terraform required; Ansible a plus)
- Demonstrated experience building or maturing an SRE or platform engineering function — not just running ops
- Architectural-level knowledge of AWS and/or Azure (networking, compute, identity, storage, cost)
- Experience owning an enterprise identity platform (Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, or equivalent) and Zero Trust principles
- Proven ability to shift team culture and practices toward engineering excellence
- Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Building an internal developer platform or self-service infrastructure layer
- GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux)
- Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
- Observability stack ownership (OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana)
- Compliance frameworks: SOX, PCI, HIPAA
- Consumer-facing or multi-site retail/hospitality technology
Benefits
- A fully subsidized membership
- Discounts on Life Time products and services
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company discretionary match (21 years of age and older)
- Training and professional development
- Paid sick leave where required by law
- Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
- Short term and long term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending and dependent care plans
- Parental leave and adoption assistance
- Paid time off, including 5 to 20 vacation days per calendar year (based on tenure) and paid sick leave
- Deferred compensation plan, if the team member meets the required income threshold
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