Manager, Platform Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the platform engineering team, taking responsibility for delivery, reliability commitments, team well-being, and engineer development.

• Stay actively involved by writing infrastructure code and troubleshooting deployments.

• Manage environment separation, change control, access management, and audit logging.

• Ensure that production changes are traceable, defensible, and compliant with Secure SDLC, Change Management Policy, and SOC 2 evidence requirements.

• Facilitate a gradual migration to a standardized Kubernetes deployment pathway.

• Develop and maintain developer tooling, paved roads, golden paths, and self-service deployment guardrails.

• Oversee and enhance CI/CD pipelines, including branch protection, peer review, automated security and quality testing, and gated deployment processes.

• Establish Terraform infrastructure-as-code standards and bring unmanaged production changes under version control.

• Minimize operational toil through automation and replatforming efforts.

• Take charge of infrastructure reliability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

• Act as an escalation point and coordinate infrastructure incident response efforts.

• Provide the infrastructure substrate and tooling utilized by application-platform and domain teams.

• Collaborate with the Staff Engineer responsible for the application platform.

• Set benchmarks for infrastructure code quality, testing, documentation, and review processes.

• Manage cloud costs and capacity while ensuring a balance between performance and reliability.

• Encourage accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive, hands-on platform and infrastructure engineering experience across AWS, Linux, and container-first workflows.

• Production Kubernetes experience, including the provision of standardized deployment paths for engineering teams.

• Strong practice in infrastructure-as-code utilizing Terraform.

• Ownership of CI/CD pipeline design, including security, quality, and approval gates.

• Experience in building internal developer tooling and self-service deployment solutions.

• Background in designing infrastructure and change processes for auditability and compliance, covering environment separation, access control, audit logging, and SOC 2 evidence.

• Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure incident response.

• Experience with authentication and authorization platforms such as Okta or Auth0.

• Proven ability to enhance unfamiliar, legacy, or poorly maintained infrastructure.

• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.

• Leadership experience, mentoring, and developing engineers while remaining technically engaged.

• Capability to influence without direct authority and to establish standards embraced by engineering teams.

• Comfort with leading gradual migrations and establishing sustainable engineering practices.

• Ability to convey technical concepts and trade-offs effectively to non-technical stakeholders, including leadership.

• Well-developed skills in speaking, reading, comprehending, and writing in English.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

• International remote work is not supported.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Flexible work options.

• A team dedicated to your success.