Platform Engineering Manager

Manager of Platform Engineering 🚀

📍 Charlotte, NC (Onsite) | Reports to CTO

Lead the platform that powers 24/7 operations for Fortune 500 clients.

Our client, a leading enterprise technology company, is seeking a hands-on Manager of Platform Engineering to own DevOps, SRE, and platform reliability for their customer-facing cloud platform. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who wants to stay technical while building and mentoring a world-class team.

What You'll Do

• Build, mentor, and retain a high-performing team of platform/DevOps/SRE engineers
• Own platform strategy, roadmap, and execution against SLAs and business KPIs (availability, MTTR, deployment frequency)
• Architect and operate hybrid infrastructure (Azure + on-prem) with high availability, security, and cost efficiency
• Drive CI/CD, Kubernetes (AKS), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Bicep) maturity
• Establish SRE practices: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, observability, blameless postmortems
• Lead incident response, DR strategy (RPO/RTO), and security/compliance controls
• Run operational cadences: CAB, release reviews, retrospectives

Must-Haves

• 6+ years in platform/DevOps/software engineering, 2–3+ years managing a team
• Deep Azure expertise (AKS, Entra/Azure AD, RBAC, monitoring, networking)
• Proven experience scaling mission-critical, customer-facing platforms
• Hands-on with CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform/ARM/Bicep, observability tools
• Strong security/compliance background and change management (ITIL) experience
• Excellent communication skills—able to translate tech into business impact

Nice-to-Haves

• Background in SaaS, IoT, or real-time data platforms
• Experience with Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or Application Insights
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Expert, or CKA certification
• Experience scaling platforms through rapid growth (2x–3x)
• SOC 2/ISO 27001 compliance experience

Why Apply?

Join a growth-stage technology leader at a pivotal moment—shape the platform strategy, modernize the stack, and build the team from the ground up, all while reporting directly to the CTO.

👉 Apply now to take the next step in your platform leadership career!