Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

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

📋 Description

• Lead software engineering teams in delivering infrastructure-as-code solutions for managing cloud infrastructure.

• Create governance frameworks and mechanisms that empower application development teams to provision infrastructure autonomously while ensuring adherence to best practices and controls.

• Offer documentation, training, and support to help feature development teams fully utilize self-service capabilities.

• Recruit skilled site reliability engineers and a line manager to develop and oversee the SRE team.

• Enhance incident management by defining and documenting incident processes and practices for your SRE team and the application feature teams.

• Promote professionalism in incident management across the engineering organization through training and process implementation.

• Instill a design-before-build discipline by facilitating lightweight design documents, architectural decision records, and working group reviews.

• Utilize design reviews, code reviews, and blameless retrospectives to foster a culture of quality and excellence in engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading teams that manage SaaS service infrastructure.

• Extensive hands-on experience in deploying and operating production infrastructure on public cloud platforms, with a strong preference for AWS; familiarity with Azure and GCP is a plus.

• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform; prior experience with Crossplane and GitOps patterns is highly preferred.

• Experience in managing large-scale production Kubernetes environments.

• Comprehensive understanding of security best practices, including zero trust architecture, secrets management, identity and access management, and software supply chain security.

• Experience in building and maintaining self-service infrastructure platforms that empower application development teams, while balancing self-service capabilities with maintainability and security.

• Background in leading or establishing SRE functions, including incident management processes, on-call programs, SLO/SLA definitions, and operational runbooks.

• In-depth hands-on experience with observability, including application performance management, logs and traces, golden signals, and service-specific metrics.

• Expertise in guiding infrastructure teams to convert business and product needs into technical requirements and engineering outputs.

• Demonstrated ability to hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineers and engineering managers in remote or distributed settings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Vision insurance

• Dental insurance

• Flexible vacation policy

• Generous parental leave