Senior Manager, Platform Engineering
SEON
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Budapest • Hungary
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About the role
- Lead and grow a high-performing Platform Engineering team responsible for our cloud architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and core infrastructure provisioning
- Champion a "Platform as a Product" mindset, working with DevEx to identify and understand friction points of the platform and driving the adoption of self-service tools
- Design and maintain "Golden Paths"—standardized, automated templates for microservices and infrastructure that allow developers to deploy safely and quickly
- Drive the strategy for the platform, managing the roadmap to balance long-term architectural improvements with immediate tooling needs
- Collaborate deeply with the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager to ensure that platform templates automatically enforce reliability standards and facilitate "Compliance by Design"
- Automate compliance and security controls directly into the delivery pipeline
- Oversee cloud architecture, managing our AWS footprint to ensure cost-efficiency and scalability
- Define and track success metrics such as DORA metrics and developer satisfaction scores to measure the impact of the platform team
- Provide mentorship, performance reviews, and career development opportunities for team members
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, advocating for the platform strategy
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Proven success in leading Platform Engineering or DevOps teams in a large-scale, fast-paced environment
- Extensive experience with cloud-native architectures, specifically AWS and Kubernetes, and a deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform
- Strategic vision to balance the need for standardization (governance) with developer autonomy (innovation)
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with product developers, SREs, and executive stakeholders
- Experience with modern CI/CD and Observability ecosystems (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) and how to integrate them into a seamless developer workflow
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on systemic improvements and root cause analysis of process inefficiencies
- Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, vendor relationships, and cross-functional projects simultaneously
Benefits
- Flexibility in work arrangement with hybrid schedule in Budapest or remote in the EU
- Mentorship and career development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud architectureCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as CodeAWSKubernetesTerraformDORA metricscompliance automationmicroservicesobservability
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinterpersonal skillsmentorshipproblem-solvingorganizational skillsstrategic visionrelationship buildingperformance reviewscareer development