Director – Platform Engineering

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🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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CyberMaxx

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

⚖️ Legal

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Legal • Consulting

CyberMaxx is a company providing tech-enabled security solutions designed to help customers assess, monitor, and manage cyber risks. They specialize in Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services, offering 24x7x365 threat detection and zero-latency response. Their services are tailored for industries such as healthcare, financial services, and government sectors. CyberMaxx aims to strengthen security postures by integrating both offensive and defensive strategies, leveraging a robust ecosystem of technology partners. They are committed to continuously managing cybersecurity threats through proactive threat hunting and providing comprehensive security solutions, including network security, endpoint detection and response, vulnerability risk management, and incident response. CyberMaxx positions itself as an extension of an organization's team, handling baseline security needs, thereby allowing clients to focus on strategic goals. Additionally, they are involved in charitable causes like Defenders For Children, contributing to the defense against cyber threats.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end architecture of the Elastic estate, including deployment model, cluster topology, tiering, and multi-tenant isolation • Hold final sign-off authority on platform architecture decisions • Lead migration of the remaining ECE-based estate onto ECK • Execute the existing engineering plan, close technical gaps, and drive the program to completion without service disruption • Remain directly engaged through design reviews, upgrade planning, escalated troubleshooting, and prototype work • Maintain and evolve capacity planning; forecast ingest growth, size clusters and hardware, and drive procurement • Chair the weekly Platform Engineering change control forum and represent the department at the enterprise Change Advisory Board • Own ingest pipeline design and health, log source onboarding, and data quality standards • Partner with Detection Engineering and Security Operations on detection tuning and alerting quality • Plan and execute Elastic version upgrades with minimal client-facing disruption • Maintain platform currency and manage end-of-life risk • Serve as named Platform Engineering escalation contact under Major Incident Management • Lead root cause analysis and remediation for platform-originated incidents • Lead, coach, and develop platform engineers; own hiring, performance management, career development, and workload allocation • Run the department's operating cadence • Chair the Engineering Leadership Roundtable across engineering, infrastructure, detection engineering, security operations, and product • Translate platform constraints for product and commercial stakeholders • Manage the Elastic relationship, licensing, renewals, true-ups, tooling evaluation, and technical negotiations • Lead integration of acquired environments, including cluster migration, ingest re-pointing, client mapping, and license consolidation • Establish documentation standards for architecture, runbooks, and recovery procedures • Reduce key-person dependency as an explicit early deliverable • Serve as responsible officer for platform-relevant control documentation and support SOC 2 and client audit evidence requests

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 10 years in infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering • At least 4 years leading engineering teams • Demonstrated ownership of a large-scale, multi-tenant data platform in production • Experience operating in a managed services, MSSP, or MDR environment where platform availability is contractually bound • Track record of inheriting and stabilizing an environment built by others, including reverse-engineering undocumented systems • Track record of delivering a platform migration or consolidation program end to end • Deep, hands-on expertise with the Elastic Stack at scale — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats and Agent — including multi-tenant cluster design and operation • Strong Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) experience strongly preferred • Strong grounding in log ingestion architecture, data normalization (ECS), index lifecycle management, and retention design • Working knowledge of SIEM and detection engineering concepts; familiarity with detection-as-code practices • Linux systems administration • Containerization and orchestration, including Kubernetes • Infrastructure-as-code • Identity and access integration: SAML, LDAP, SSO, and role-based access design • Capacity modeling and cost-to-serve analysis for data-intensive platforms • Ability to hold architectural authority while remaining open to being wrong • Ability to lead execution of a plan authored by others and build team credibility • Comfortable running a department where most work is unplanned while defending strategic capacity • Clear written and verbal communication with engineers and executives • Effective in a distributed, multi-time-zone organization • Elastic certification preferred, such as Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Certified Architect • Experience with 24x7 operational environments and formal change management frameworks such as ITIL preferred • Prior experience presenting platform posture to enterprise clients or in audit contexts preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off • 401k with a company match • Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage • Voluntary Short Term and Long-Term Disability • Employee Assistance Program with Mental Health Supplement • Voluntary Basic, Accidental, and other ancillary life insurance • Health Savings Account Contribution (with selection of a HDHP) • 10 annual, paid holidays • Fully remote work arrangement