Senior Manager Platform Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Lead the design, development, and optimization of platform engineering solutions, ensuring high availability and scalability.
• Infrastructure & Automation: Architect and implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and automated provisioning.
• Cloud & DevOps Strategy: Define and execute cloud-native strategies (AWS, Azure) and DevOps best practices, including container orchestration and service mesh technologies.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure security best practices, governance, and compliance standards are integrated into platform operations.
• Performance & Reliability: Champion Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to enhance system resilience, monitoring, and incident response.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Work closely with software engineering, security, and product teams to optimize development workflows and enhance developer experience.
• Mentorship & Growth: Mentor and develop a team of platform engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, automation, and operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 10-15+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles, with at least 8-10+ years in a leadership capacity.

• Technical Expertise:

• Hands-on experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure).

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and container orchestration.

• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).

• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK stack).

• Scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).

• Strong understanding of networking, security, and infrastructure architecture.