Lead Platform Engineer

COMPANY OVERVIEW

KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR’s insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group. References to KKR’s investments may include the activities of its sponsored funds and insurance subsidiaries.

TEAM OVERVIEW

KKR's Technology team is responsible for building and supporting the firm's technological foundation, including a globally distributed infrastructure, information security, and the application and data platforms. Within Technology, the ADAPT team (Application, Data and AI Platform Team) owns the firm's engineering platform, developer experience, AI tooling and the SaaS integration fabric that connects our core enterprise systems. ADAPT drives a culture of technology excellence through workflow automation, self-service tooling, and modern integration patterns across AWS, Jira / Jira Service Management / Confluence, ServiceNow, and adjacent SaaS estates. The team partners with application engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business functions to deliver agility, resilience, and high impact at global scale.

KKR is seeking a Vice President, Platform Engineering to lead a technical projects within the ADAPT team, focused on the AWS-native platform, our Atlassian and ServiceNow ecosystems, and the cloud integrations that connect them to the firm's business systems. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will own the strategy and delivery for developer-facing platform services, integration patterns, and automation that materially improve engineering velocity and operational quality. You will partner with peers across Technology, Cybersecurity, and the business to modernize the firm's toolchain, retire bespoke glue code in favour of well-governed integration platforms, and set the standard for how platform engineering is done at KKR. The successful candidate combines deep AWS and integration engineering expertise with the leadership judgement to shape a multi-year roadmap and mentor a global team.

• Platform Strategy & Roadmap: Own the vision and multi-year roadmap for the ADAPT platform – AWS-native services, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and the integration fabric spanning Atlassian, ServiceNow, and adjacent SaaS. Translate business priorities into a prioritized delivery plan.

• AWS Cloud Engineering: Lead the design, build, and operation of secure, scalable AWS foundations (accounts, networking, IAM, EKS/ECS, serverless, data services). Drive Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), landing-zone patterns, and cost, resilience, and security guardrails.

• Atlassian & ServiceNow Platform Ownership: Own the engineering strategy for Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, and ServiceNow – including platform administration standards, workflow design, app/plugin governance, and roadmap alignment with HR, IT Service Management, and business users.

• Cloud Integrations & Automation: Architect and deliver enterprise integrations between AWS, Atlassian, ServiceNow, Workday, and other core SaaS platforms using event-driven and API-first patterns (REST/GraphQL, webhooks, iPaaS/EventBridge, Kafka). Replace bespoke scripts with well-governed, observable, reusable integration services.

• Developer Experience & Enablement: Build the paved roads, reusable components, and self-service tooling that accelerate