Lead Platform Engineer

KKR
Dublin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Stakeholder management","Communication","Systems thinking"]

Lead the ADAPT platform engineering function to modernize KKR’s AWS-native, Atlassian, and ServiceNow ecosystems. Drive the multi-year roadmap for developer-facing platform services, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code, and design secure, scalable AWS foundations. Architect API-first, event-driven integrations across core SaaS systems, replace bespoke scripts with governed services, and mentor a global team to improve engineering velocity, reliability, and operational quality.

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KKR
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Lead Platform Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead the ADAPT platform engineering function to modernize KKR’s AWS-native, Atlassian, and ServiceNow ecosystems. Drive the multi-year roadmap for developer-facing platform services, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code, and design secure, scalable AWS foundations. Architect API-first, event-driven integrations across core SaaS systems, replace bespoke scripts with governed services, and mentor a global team to improve engineering velocity, reliability, and operational quality.
Location: Dublin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the vision and multi-year roadmap for the ADAPT platform, translating business priorities into a prioritized delivery plan.
  • •Lead secure, scalable AWS foundation design, build, and operations, driving landing-zone patterns and guardrails for cost, resilience, and security.
  • •Own and evolve Jira/Jira Service Management/Confluence and ServiceNow engineering strategy, including platform administration standards, workflow design, and app/plugin governance.
  • •Architect and deliver enterprise integrations between AWS, Atlassian, ServiceNow, Workday, and other SaaS platforms using event-driven and API-first patterns.
  • •Provide operational excellence through availability, security, and compliance focus; partner with Cybersecurity and mentor a global team across geographies.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of hands-on platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud/integration engineering, including 3+ years leading senior technical projects.
  • •Expert-level, hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, IAM, and container/serverless services, plus Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
  • •Deep experience delivering enterprise integrations across Atlassian (Jira/JSM/Confluence) and ServiceNow, including workflow design, APIs, webhooks, and governance.
  • •Strong experience with event-driven, API-first cloud integrations between SaaS platforms using iPaaS/EventBridge, Kafka, or equivalent patterns.
  • •Modern CI/CD, containerization (Kubernetes/Docker), observability, and secure-by-design cloud architecture with strong programming/scripting skills (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Java).
Experience:10+ years
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipStakeholder managementCommunicationSystems thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AWSEKSECSServerlessIAMTerraformCI/CDAtlassian JiraJira Service ManagementConfluenceServiceNowWorkdayRESTGraphQLWebhooksIPaaSEventBridgeKafkaPythonTypeScript

Company Brief

KKR
Global investment firm providing alternative asset management and capital markets services across private equity, credit, real assets, and hedge funds, serving institutional and private clients worldwide.
Industry: Asset Management
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 1976
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