# Platform Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure

**Company:** [Garner Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/garner-health)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $310k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Istio, Postgres, Nats, Python, Go, Elasticsearch, Slos/Slas
**Posted:** 2026-06-17

> Lead the Cloud Infrastructure Squad, owning AWS platform reliability, scalability, and security. Manage a team of infrastructure engineers and drive the technical roadmap for Kubernetes, Terraform, and related tooling.

## Job Description

## What you will do

- Own the reliability, performance, and security of Garner’s cloud infrastructure on AWS, serving as the accountable party for platform uptime, incident response, and operational excellence
- Define and execute the technical roadmap for the cloud infrastructure squad, prioritizing investments across Kubernetes, Terraform, Istio, Postgres, NATS, and observability tooling
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers. Hire exceptional talent, set clear expectations, provide rigorous feedback, and hold the team accountable to Garner’s high standards
- Partner closely with product engineering, data engineering, and security teams to ensure the platform enables fast, safe, and scalable delivery across the organization
- Establish and monitor key reliability and performance metrics (SLOs, SLAs, error budgets); use data to drive decisions and continuously improve platform quality
- Manage quarterly planning and delivery for the squad, translating Garner’s engineering priorities into a clear roadmap, while coordinating dependencies, and escalating tradeoffs proactively and appropriately

## The ideal candidate has

- 5+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure or platform engineering experience, with at least 2 years in an engineering management role leading cloud-based infrastructure teams
- Deep expertise with AWS and modern infrastructure tooling, including Kubernetes, Terraform, and at least a working familiarity with Istio, Postgres, and NATS
- A track record of building and scaling reliable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud platforms, including experience setting and managing SLOs/SLAs and driving incident response processes
- Strong people management skills with the ability to hire great engineers, deliver candid developmental feedback, and build a culture of ownership and high standards
- Excellent cross-functional communication, articulating technical tradeoffs clearly to engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders alike, while holding stakeholders accountable with clarity and directness
- Sound judgment in balancing engineering velocity with reliability and security, knowing when to slow down or speed up and the skill to cut through complexity and ambiguity
- A desire to be a part of a high-performing, mission-driven team that operates with intense urgency, a strong sense of individual accountability, and a commitment to authentic feedback

## Technologies we use

Python, Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, Postgres, ElasticSearch, NATS, AWS, Claude

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