Platform Acceleration Manager

Boeing

Platform Acceleration Manager at Boeing leading a cross-functional team for cloud platform innovation. Driving proof of concepts and ensuring operational readiness in cloud engineering.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeSeattle • California, Illinois, Montana, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $161,500 - $233,450 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and prioritize the Platform Acceleration roadmap for the enterprise runtime product (golden profiles, lifecycle automation, admission control, runtime security)
Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers, automation engineers, and runtime security specialists
Drive PoC initiatives: define success criteria, validate performance and security, and convert validated PoCs into production-ready reference implementations; actively contribute technically to PoCs and reference builds
Define and enforce operability acceptance criteria and formal handoff processes (performance baselines, monitoring/alerts, upgrade & rollback plans, runbooks)
Deliver reusable, production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC), operators, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that downstream teams (Foundations, DevEx, Runtime SRE) adopt — including authoring or reviewing critical modules
Lead rapid-response cross-team efforts to diagnose and remediate systemic platform problems; participate hands-on in complex troubleshooting as required
Partner with Cloud Strategy and Cloud Architecture to align innovations to enterprise direction and ensure reference implementations meet architecture and compliance expectations
Establish versioning, deprecation, and change-management practices for runtime artifacts; ensure downstream teams can safely upgrade and adopt new capabilities
Represent the PA team in leadership forums, architecture reviews, and incident post-mortems where platform design changes are required
Track and report success metrics for adoption, operability, and risk reduction; iterate the roadmap based on telemetry and stakeholder feedback

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering, SRE, and/or related roles
5+ years of experience with Kubernetes at scale (EKS/AKS/GKE), cluster lifecycle automation, and runtime tooling
5+ years of experience with IaC (Terraform, Terraform modules, Helm, operators), admission controllers (OPA/Gatekeeper or webhooks), and policy-as-code practices
3+ years in a technical leadership and/or people management role
Experience contributing code, IaC, and/or design artifacts
Experience taking prototypes/PoCs to production-grade solutions and enabling downstream teams to operate them
Experience working cross-functionally with architecture, security, operations, and DevEx teams
Experience with prioritization, stakeholder management, release gating, and risk mitigation

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Flexible spending accounts
Health savings accounts
Retirement savings plans
Life and disability insurance programs
Paid and unpaid time away from work

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud platform engineeringsite reliability engineering (SRE)Kubernetescluster lifecycle automationInfrastructure as Code (IaC)TerraformHelmadmission controllerspolicy-as-codeproduction-grade solutions

Soft Skills

technical leadershippeople managementstakeholder managementprioritizationrisk mitigationcross-functional collaborationcoachingtroubleshootingcommunicationreporting