Manager, Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform engineering team, owning delivery, reliability, team health, and engineer development while remaining hands-on.
• Make infrastructure auditable through environment separation, change control, access management, and audit logging.
• Migrate incrementally to a standardized Kubernetes deployment path while maintaining operational continuity.
• Build developer tooling, paved roads, golden paths, and self-service deployment workflows.
• Own CI/CD pipelines and controls, including branch protection, peer review, security and quality testing, and gated deployment.
• Establish Terraform infrastructure-as-code standards and bring unmanaged infrastructure under version control and change management.
• Reduce operational toil through automation and replatforming.
• Own infrastructure reliability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Manage cloud cost and capacity while balancing performance and reliability.
• Set standards for infrastructure code quality, testing, documentation, and review.
• Partner with application-platform and domain teams and influence shared infrastructure and security practices.

Requirements

• Deep, hands-on platform and infrastructure engineering experience across AWS, Linux, and container-first workflows.
• Production experience running Kubernetes and providing standardized deployment paths for engineering teams.
• Strong Terraform infrastructure-as-code experience, including managing existing or unmanaged infrastructure.
• Experience designing and owning CI/CD pipelines with security, quality, and approval gates.
• Experience building internal developer tooling and self-service deployment workflows.
• Experience designing auditable infrastructure and change processes, including access control, audit logging, and SOC 2 evidence.
• Strong observability, monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure incident-response skills.
• Experience with authentication and authorization platforms such as Okta or Auth0.
• Ability to improve unfamiliar, legacy, or poorly maintained infrastructure through troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• People leadership experience, including managing, mentoring, and growing engineers while remaining technically hands-on.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and establish standards adopted by other teams.
• Ability to lead incremental migrations and build durable engineering practices.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts and tradeoffs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong English communication skills.

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Flexible work options.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.
• International remote work is not supported.