Business Wire

Platform Manager

Business Wire

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $185,000 - $195,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudEC2GrafanaKubernetesPrometheusTerraform

About the role

  • Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences.
  • Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.
  • About the Role: Business Wire is seeking a Platform Manager focused on modernizing and maintaining our infrastructure operations as we transition all operations into cloud native environments. This role requires technical leadership and hands-on individual contribution. You’ll guide the team through initiatives such as cloud migrations, expanding our Kubernetes adoption, and supporting/improving our GitOps and CI/CD processes, all while ensuring security, scalability, and resilience. You will collaborate with engineering teams to support cloud-native application deployments and streamline CI/CD workflows. You will expand centralized cloud automation platform by developing reusable IaC modules and pipelines that enforce standardization and compliance policies.
  • We’re looking for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, has recent experience building and operating infrastructure in AWS and is passionate about mentoring others while staying close to the technology.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management position.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, RDS, etc.).
  • Proven experience with GitOps tools—preferably ArgoCD—and a strong understanding of GitOps principles.
  • Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration with Kubernetes.
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
  • Deep understanding of cloud security principles and experience with auditing and remediation.
  • Familiarity with immutable infrastructure patterns.
  • Track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.
  • Experience merging or integrating teams and building a unified team culture is a plus
  • Exposure to monitoring and observability tools (New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.) is a plus.
  • Knowledge of FinOps techniques for cloud infrastructure is a plus.
  • Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or similar is a plus.