Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

Flexential

Sr Manager, Platform Engineering leading a team in developing observability solutions at Flexential. Overseeing technical planning, implementation, and operational management with a focus on DevOps and security.

Posted 6/13/2026full-timeRemote • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSCloudGrafanaITSMKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonSDLCTCP/IPTerraformVaultVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design, development, deployment and operational management of automated, resilient, high availability, self-healing, secure platforms with native-AI capabilities for IT needs, serving both internal as well as customer business capabilities.
Lead, Build and manage the Platform Engineering team and function — hiring, mentoring, performance management, and technical roadmap ownership.
Plan, build and operate an OpenTelemetry Observability platform with technologies including Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Alertmanager on Kubernetes/RKE2 using Helm and ArgoCD.
Build an automated federated Observability Edge Stack — Prometheus + OTel collector nodes deployed per site and Zabbix auto-discovery configuration and Prometheus scrape profile library for 10+ device classes (Cisco, Juniper, Dell, NetApp, etc.).
Design, develop and manage engineering lifecycle platforms for high-velocity secure SDLC using Gitlab and similar / related technologies.
Build and operate iaC and CI/CD platforms including GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible AWX, Helm, and ArgoCD for automated provisioning and application deployment.
Own, enhance and operate critical IT platform technologies e.g Boomi for integrations , AWS for Cloud environments, including their hosted infrastructure.
Establish and enforce platform security posture: secrets management via CyberArk/ Conjur , RBAC, mTLS , compliance boundary design, and zero inbound telemetry architecture.
Build and integrate ITSM capabilities for various platforms e.g automated incident creation, CI enrichment, and CMDB correlation
Define and implement extensibility patterns including AIOps : e.g anomaly detection hooks, event correlation pipeline design, and integration with future ML/AI tooling.
Partner with other IT and business teams for App Dev, requirements capture, delivery validation and integration needs.
Represent platform engineering in cross-functional architecture reviews and executive-level program updates.
Perform other management and technical duties as required and assigned for team and operational resilience e.g team building, on-call rotation, etc.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12+ years of relevant technical experience with 4+ years in a management (or Principal-level) role leading an engineering team
DevOps / Platform Engineering - 8+ years, End-to-end ownership of developer/infrastructure platforms; Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD , service-mesh, containerized workloads
GitOps / CI - CD - 5 + years GitLab CI/CD, pipeline authoring, infrastructure-as-code delivery
8+ years of expert level automation frameworks experience with Python, Terraform, Ansible, etc.
Infrastructure (Linux/VM) - 8+ years Linux systems administration, VM lifecycle (VMware vCenter/VCF), Netapp storage and compute provisioning
Working knowledge of Networking - 3 + years, TCP/IP, BGP/OSPF, SNMP protocol
AI tooling – Strong understanding (or 1+ years experience ) with MCP, Agentic workflows, SRE workflows e.g AIOps for Anomaly detection, event correlation, alert noise reduction on Prometheus and Grafana stack
Experience with Secrets & Security - 4 + years, CyberArk, Conjur , Vault, or equivalent; RBAC design, compliance boundary architecture
Engineering Management - 4 + years, Hiring, team building, performance management, roadmap ownership for teams of 5 + engineers

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Telehealth, Dental and Vision
401(k)
Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Life and AD&D
Short Term and Long-Term disability
Flex Paid Time Off (PTO)
Leave of Absence
Employee Assistance Program
Wellness Program
Rewards and Recognition Program

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesHelmArgoCDGitLab CI/CDTerraformAnsiblePythonLinuxVMwareNetworking

Soft Skills

team buildingperformance managementroadmap ownershipmentoringcross-functional collaborationcommunicationleadershiprequirements capturedelivery validationoperational resilience