Head of Cloud Platform Engineering

Totara

Remote regions

US

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

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What you'll be responsible for:

  • Bringing teams together: Build a unified operating model across infrastructure and cloud engineering teams.
  • Building a scalable platform: Own platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to provision, deploy, and operate services.
  • Modernising our infrastructure: Lead the infrastructure migration towards the target operating model through incremental, low-risk delivery.

What success looks like:

  • Within your first six months: Infrastructure teams are working within a shared operating model with common standards.
  • Within your first year: Automated provisioning and lifecycle management is operating successfully in production.
  • Platform engineering organisation works as one team with strong engineering culture.

What we're looking for:

  • Deep hands-on AWS expertise across infrastructure as code (Terraform), containers, networking, and cloud security.
  • Experience designing and operating dedicated customer or cell-based deployment models.
  • Strong Site Reliability Engineering mindset including service levels, incident management, and observability.

Totara

Totara is a global learning platform trusted by more than 1,500 organisations and 21 million users worldwide, offering flexible learning, compliance, and talent development solutions. With a distributed team across New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the US, the company values diverse perspectives and offers flexible, hybrid working.

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