EMEA App Platform Technologies Director

As part of MetLife’s Technology organization, you will report directly to the EMEA CTO. The team supports regional application and infrastructure teams across EMEA, ensuring core platform services are robust, scalable, and aligned with regional and global standards. The team partners with application owners, infrastructure engineers, and global leadership to drive digital transformation and deliver reliable, secure platforms that empower MetLife’s business across the region.

• Advanced degree (e.g., Master’s in Computer Science/Engineering) and/or professional certifications such as CKA/CKAD, AWS/Azure/GCP Architect, ITIL, PMP that underpin leadership of enterprise platform services.
• Experience with Kubernetes‑based platforms (OpenShift, AKS, EKS, GKE) for orchestration, service mesh, CI/CD integration, and cluster operations.
• Experience with public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, CloudFormation) with strong security, networking, and observability.
• Proven ability to run enterprise‑scale distributed systems with DevOps/automation mindset and rigorous platform lifecycle management.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and ability to operate effectively in a matrixed global organization.

Nice to have:

• Experience with organizational transformation towards a unified global operating model and collaboration improvement across regional and global teams.

• Lead regional teams and the portfolio covering container platforms (on‑prem and cloud), enterprise databases, middleware, and cloud platform engineering; set direction aligned to global architecture and platform standards.
• Create the EMEA platform roadmap, standards, and automation/observability patterns that advance containerization, cloud‑native designs, performance, and security.
• Oversee the design, deployment, and lifecycle of on‑prem Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud container platforms (AKS/EKS/GKE), ensuring high availability and compliance.
• Manage enterprise database services (SQL/NoSQL, distributed data), middleware technologies (integration, messaging, API gateways, app servers), incident/problem/change processes, and SRE practices.
• Develop operational KPIs and enforce SLAs; drive standardization, automation (IaC), observability, and FinOps to optimize cost, performance, and resource utilization.
• Coordinate with application teams, enterprise architects, security, and cloud governance to support migrations, technology rollouts, vulnerability management, patching, and disaster recovery planning.