Sr Manager Platform Engineering
Job Summary
The Sr. Manager of Platform Engineering is a hands-on leadership role responsible for managing infrastructure teams in a high-growth AWS environment. You will lead day-to-day operations, oversee cloud infrastructure design, and drive CI/CD processes to support business scaling. This position reports to the Director of DevOps and requires collaboration across functional teams to ensure robust platform performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor DevOps team members
- Oversee Cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD maintenance
- Design and scale cloud production environments
- Drive continuous process improvement
Required Skills
- AWS Infrastructure (EC2, EKS, CDK)
- Terraform
- GitLab expertise
- Python/Bash scripting
- Agile/Scrum management
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Leading, coaching and performance managing a team of DevOps engineers.
- Oversee the design, implementation and maintenance of Cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD processes.
- Collaborating and building strong cross functional partnerships.
- Designing the cloud platform production environment and application from a holistic view, ensuring it meets all the business requirements.
- Hands on experience in managing the cloud accounts and DevOps tools.
- Take ownership of continuous improvement within the team.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of related work experience, typically 3+ years management experience.
- Solid track record of leading high-performing teams.
- Experience with Performance Management.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Proactive communication skills.
- Expert-level knowledge and experience with GitLab.
- Strong knowledge and experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, EKS, S3/Cloudfront, CDK, etc).
- Strong knowledge and experience with Terraform.
- Strong scripting skills in python, bash, etc.
- Understanding of IP networking, PKI, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling.