# Manager, Platform Engineering

**Company:** [LegitScript](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/legitscript)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $160k – $185k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Docker, Observability, Monitoring, Incident Response, Okta, Auth0, SOC 2, Access Control, Audit Logging
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> Leads a hands-on platform engineering team responsible for AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes deployment paths, developer self-service, CI/CD governance, reliability, and audit readiness. The role requires deep infrastructure experience, Terraform expertise, production Kubernetes operations, and people leadership.

## Job Description

## 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.

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