Demo Platform Engineering Lead

About Us

At Netwrix, our mission is to revolutionize data security by placing identity at the core - providing unparalleled visibility and control. Engineered and supported by over 900 highly talented, motivated employees and hundreds of trusted partners in nearly every geography, Netwrix solutions are relied upon daily by security professionals across more than 13,500 organizations in over 100 countries around the world.

Over the past two decades, Netwrix has expanded its market presence through innovation, organic growth, and strategic acquisitions, and are proud to be backed by renowned private equity firms, TA Associates and Centerbridge Partners. Netwrix maintains a global presence, fostering a remote-first work environment while encouraging and facilitating frequent face-to-face interaction with colleagues, customers, and partners.

Position Summary

Netwrix’s CloudLAB is the company’s standardized, CloudShare/Azure-hosted virtual environment used across the organization and with external stakeholders to power product demos and proofs of value (POVs), enablement and training, quality/testing workflows, and major events like webinars and trade shows.

The Demo Platform Engineering Lead is the single-threaded owner accountable for the reliability, security, and evolution of this environment; running the release train, coordinating a cross-functional tiger team, and engineering repeatable “click-to-launch” demo and POV experiences.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Platform Ownership & Strategy

• Own the CloudLAB platform vision, reference architecture, standards, and lifecycle (build, maintain, retire).
• Define and manage the CloudLAB roadmap and backlog, aligning priorities across Sales/SE, Enablement, Product, Engineering, Support, ProServ, Marketing, and Channel stakeholders.
• Maintain a scalable model that supports a broad range of use cases, including demos, POVs, internal training, product quality/testing, customer zero, and external analyst/partner evaluations.

Release Management & Operational Excellence

• Run a predictable operating rhythm with weekly build/strategy sessions and a monthly release cycle (scope, build, validate, publish, communicate).
• Maintain release documentation: release notes, known issues, rollback plans, version compatibility, and standard operating procedures.
• Establish environment health checks, incident response patterns, and continuous improvement for uptime and performance.

Engineering & Automation

• Experience consuming and integrating RESTful APIs using PowerShell/Python, including OAuth2/service principals, pagination, rate limits, JSON payloads, and error handling to automate provisioning and lifecycle workflows.
• Investigate and integrate open-source tools and supporting services that improve demo realism, speed, and reliability (e.g., automation helpers, telemetry/health signals, reset mechanisms).
• Manage supporting systems and integrations needed for realistic environments (e.g., identity, Windows services, data sources, and required platform dependencies).

Demo/POV Productization (“Value Engineering”)

• Package Netwrix solutions into repeatable CloudLAB blueprints, curated demo paths, and POV workflows that are easy for the field to execute.
• Maintain reliable sample data, “reset to green” capabilities, and consistent UX so the environment is always customer-ready (and not a science project).
• Partner with Enablement to align labs to training programs, internal readiness, and partner accreditation needs.

Stakeholder Leadership & Cross-Functional Coordination

• Lead the tiger team of cross-functional contributors; run calls, document decisions, track dependencies, and drive to closure.
• Serve as the escalation point for CloudLAB issues impacting demos/POVs, training, events, or external evaluations.
• Collaborate with Legal/3rd-party assessment workflows where environments are required for reviews and evaluations.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in a blend of solutions engineering, demo engineering, lab/platform engineering, enablement engineering, or technical program leadership.
• Strong Windows, Linux + identity fundamentals (Active Directory/Entra ID concep