Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

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

📋 Description

• Oversee software engineering teams that deliver infrastructure-as-code for managing cloud infrastructure.

• Create governance structures and systems that empower application development teams to provision infrastructure independently, ensuring adherence to best practices and controls.

• Offer documentation, training, and assistance to guarantee that feature development teams utilize self-service capabilities effectively.

• Recruit skilled site reliability personnel and a line manager to enhance and supervise the SRE team.

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

• Promote a culture of incident professionalism throughout the engineering organization by fostering training and the adoption of processes.

• Implement a design-before-build approach. Facilitate the creation of lightweight design documents, architectural decision records, and working group reviews.

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

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience leading teams that operate SaaS service infrastructure.

• Extensive hands-on experience with deploying and managing production infrastructure on public cloud platforms (AWS is strongly preferred; familiarity with Azure and GCP is a plus).

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

• Experience in managing production Kubernetes environments at scale.

• 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 and developer productivity with maintainability and security.

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

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

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

• Demonstrated ability to recruit, 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