Platform Engineering Manager

Onebrief

Engineering Manager overseeing platform infrastructure for AI-powered workflow software, enabling military staffs with enhanced collaboration and efficiency. Responsible for team growth and cross-functional partnerships.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $205,000 - $255,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSCloudCyber SecurityKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and grow the team of Platform Engineers by providing direction, removing blockers, and empowering them to own core platform infrastructure and tooling.
Partner with Cybersecurity, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure the platform supports secure, reliable, high-velocity delivery into cloud-native and air-gapped environments.
Drive standards and frameworks for Infrastructure as Code, service onboarding, environment management, GitOps workflows, and overall platform releases.
Ensure observability, reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the platform; continuously monitor and improve service health, developer feedback, and performance metrics.
Own the operational aspects of the platform team: incidents, responsiveness, After-Action Reviews (AARs) / post-mortems, runbooks, and continuous improvement of operational maturity.
Act as a key stakeholder in architecture, influencing decisions about how the platform integrates with product, engineering, and operations, and ensuring the platform meets mission needs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5-8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering roles, and 2+ years managing engineers (ideally infrastructure engineers).
Strong technical depth with Kubernetes, AWS (or multi-cloud), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Ansible / similar) and a track record of building platforms and/or platform services.
Strong understanding of hybrid and air-gapped environments and the challenges they present (compliance, connectivity, segmentation, secure operations).
Demonstrated ability to partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, and Cybersecurity) and to translate high-level requirements into actionable plans.
Skilled in setting and governing operational metrics, SLOs, incident response processes, and platform delivery measures.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey technical direction and guidance across multiple time zones to both engineers and stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity: Share in the company's success.
Flexible Work Environment: Remote-first organization* with flexible work hours and unlimited PTO.***(*note that some roles are in-person, on-site with customers)*
Comprehensive Health Coverage: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company match to secure your future.
Parental Leave: 8 weeks at 100% regardless of state.
Company Retreats: Annual company summit trips.
Home Office Budget: $1,000 per year for home office improvements.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Platform EngineeringDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringKubernetesAWSInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAnsibleGitOpsOperational Metrics

Soft Skills

LeadershipMentoringCollaborationCommunicationProblem SolvingCross-functional PartnershipTechnical DirectionResponsivenessContinuous ImprovementStakeholder Engagement