Lead and develop your team
Manage a team of 4-6 engineers, including senior individual contributors
Hire, onboard, and retain strong platform engineers
Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career growth
Build a team culture that balances operational excellence with sustainable pace
Deliver platform capabilities
Partner with other engineering managers to plan and execute platform initiatives
Own delivery of your team's roadmap commitments while managing operational load
Navigate the tension between building new capabilities and maintaining existing systems
Manage contractors and vendors as needed
Operate in a regulated environment
Ensure your team's work meets SOX and ITGC compliance requirements
Participate in change management, architecture review, and audit processes
Balance governance requirements with development velocity
Serve your internal customers
Understand the needs of product engineering teams who depend on your platform
Translate developer pain points into platform improvements
Communicate platform changes, incidents, and roadmap clearly to stakeholders
Represent platform engineering organizationally
Coordinate with peer engineering managers on shared responsibilities
Contribute to technical strategy and infrastructure investment decisions
Escalate blockers and advocate for your team's priorities

Requirements

Degree or equivalent experience
Typically requires 9+ years of relative experience
1+ years of leading engineering teams
Direct experience managing individual contributors
Background in software engineering, SRE, or platform/infrastructure engineering
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (we use Azure)
Familiarity with containerization (Kubernetes)
Familiarity with CI/CD practices
Ability to review technical work and ask good questions
Understanding of infrastructure-as-code approaches
Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical audiences

Benefits

Competitive compensation package
Performance-based bonuses and incentives

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills

software engineeringsite reliability engineeringplatform engineeringinfrastructure engineeringcloud infrastructureKubernetesCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codetechnical reviewchange management

Soft skills

team leadershipfeedback provisioncareer growth supportcommunicationstakeholder managementproblem-solvingorganizational representationcollaborationadvocacygovernance balancing