Manager, Platform Engineering

The Platform Engineering Manager will take a hands-on approach in building cloud-native infrastructure while laying the groundwork for a future team.

This role will also be critical in establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to increase development velocity and standardizing and enforcing SDLC policies.

The Platform Engineering Manager will need to demonstrate strong leadership, technical execution, and strategic planning to ensure the company is prepared to scale its future product rollouts.

 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:


* Hire and retain top engineering talent by implementing rigorous selection criteria, fostering an inclusive culture, and ensuring team members have clear career progression opportunities


* Provide continuous feedback, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to enhance technical and leadership skills within the team


* Build a high-performance culture by fostering collaboration, recognizing achievements, and ensuring team members feel valued and motivated, with clear responsibilities and expectations that drive accountability and impact


* Design, implement, and maintain a scalable cloud-native platform leveraging Kubernetes, AWS services, and infrastructure-as-code tools.


* Lead a team of professionals, providing direction, support, and motivation to achieve individual and team goals


* Develop and enforce best practices for cloud-native development to ensure high availability, reliability, and security


* Build and maintain observability frameworks, including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing, to provide actionable insights into system performance and health.


* Develop alerting systems to enable proactive resolution of system issues.


* Create and manage robust CI/CD pipelines for all software projects, enabling automated pipelines for builds, tests, and deployments.


* Standardize deployment practices to ensure reliability, security, and speed across teams.


* Establish and enforce SDLC policies, including standards for code quality, version control, and testing.


* Advocate for and implement DevOps principles to foster collaboration between development and operations teams.


* Act as a mentor and technical leader, helping development teams adopt cloud-native technologies and workflows.


* Define the strategy for scaling the Platform Engineering team, creating foundational processes that enable efficient team growth.


* Champion the adoption of new technologies and methodologies, driving technical and operational excellence while supporting the team in staying ahead of industry trends


* Create and manage performance metrics to track the success and impact of the platform team, using data to drive decisions and improve team efficiency

 

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:


* Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word)


* 7+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reli...