Manager, Platform Engineering

About the role

Platform Engineering is seeking an experienced engineering manager to lead a team responsible for building and evolving the internal platforms that power software development across the company. This role leads engineers delivering modern build systems, developer tooling, cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and AI-enabled engineering capabilities that improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and software delivery while partnering across the organization to accelerate engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

Technical & Platform Leadership

- Lead the evolution of the company's Platform Engineering capabilities to enable faster, more secure, and more reliable software delivery.

- Drive modernization of build systems, developer tooling, CI/CD, release automation, and Software Factory capabilities.

- Champion cloud-native architectures, automation, Infrastructure as Code, and engineering best practices.

- Evaluate and adopt AI-driven capabilities that improve developer productivity, software delivery, and engineering workflows.

- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance while empowering engineers to own implementation details.

People Leadership

- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Platform Engineers.

- Recruit, coach, and develop engineering talent.

- Foster a collaborative, innovative, and accountable engineering culture.

Delivery & Execution

- Own delivery of strategic Platform Engineering initiatives.

- Balance platform investments, operational priorities, and technical debt.

- Identify risks, remove blockers, and communicate tradeoffs effectively.

- Define and measure platform success through adoption, reliability, developer productivity, automation, and software delivery outcomes.

Collaboration

- Build strong partnerships across Development, Quality Development, Security, Technical Services, Managed Services, and Product teams.

- Translate business objectives into engineering priorities and execution plans.

- Represent Platform Engineering in cross-functional planning and executive discussions.

- Champion Platform Engineering as a strategic partner that enables engineering productivity across the organization.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or DevOps.

- 2+ years of engineering management experience.

- Experience with several of the following: cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, build systems, developer tooling, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.

- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives from planning through delivery.