• Serve as the primary champion of developer experience, setting a long-term DevEx vision and roadmap. • Work directly with engineers to deeply understand pain points, workflow inefficiencies, and systemic barriers to productivity. • Translate developer problems into scalable tooling, automation, and platform features. • Lead and mentor a high-performing CI/CD engineering team responsible for all build, deploy, and release automation. • Architect and deliver a frictionless, touchless deployment platform supporting rapid, safe, auditable releases into production. • Implement industry-grade release automation, rollback strategies, environment standardization, and compliance guardrails. • Ensure all developer platforms, pipelines, and supporting infrastructure meet rigorous availability, continuity, and DR requirements. • Partner with SRE and Infra teams to build resilient, self-healing, observable systems. • Own the creation and maintenance of internal developer tools, SDKs, frameworks, and automation. • Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of development infrastructure. • Establish and enforce engineering best practices across teams, including documentation and training. • Partner with Security to embed secure-by-default patterns into the platform. • Partner with Product to align DevEx improvements with business priorities. • Work with leadership to define KPIs for developer productivity and continuously measure impact.