Senior Manager, Platform DevOps

T-Mobile

Sr Manager leading globally distributed DevOps/SRE teams at T-Mobile. Focused on platform reliability, performance, and team development across AWS and Azure.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeFrisco • Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $288,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudSDLCTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and manage distributed DevOps/SRE teams (US and India) globally, ensuring effective workforce planning, shift and availability management, performance development, mentorship, and continuous skill growth aligned with organizational needs.
Own the security and vulnerability management lifecycle, ensuring timely remediation, cloud posture hardening, secure configuration management, and alignment with enterprise security, governance, and risk controls.
Lead implementation of observability platforms across monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting; develop dashboards and insights to proactively identify failures, bottlenecks, and performance deviations.
Define and implement continuous improvement practices across technical fields and organizational processes.
Drive SRE frameworks, including SLA/SLI/SLO definitions, reliability measurement, error-budget policies, and adoption of standards that improve operational excellence.
Provide end-to-end ownership of incident management, including response coordination, root-cause analysis (RCA), post-incident reviews, and implementation of corrective actions to strengthen system resilience.
Oversee technical vendor relationships to incorporate feature and function requests into product releases
Drive and maintain the current and future technical roadmap in collaboration with design and architecture teams.
Collaborate with product, architecture, quality, and security organizations to align technical priorities and delivery objectives; drive execution of a long-term platform engineering roadmap covering modernization, automation, migrations, and innovation initiatives.
Recruit and hire qualified managers and team members to strengthen the platforms and the support model.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree plus 7 years of related work experience OR a combination of education and experience deemed equivalent
7-10 years Relevant Product Management experience in an agile software product development environment.
2-4 years Experience in a leadership role.
7-10 years Technical Leadership: Strong command of cloud infrastructure (AWS & Azure), CI/CD systems, GitLab administration, IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep), automation, and modern DevOps/SRE methodologies.
2-4 years Experience managing teams of 5 or more resources in direct reporting relationships in a Platform Management organization.
Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies
Experience delivering complex technology initiatives across engineering and operations
Expertise in vulnerability management, cloud security procedures, secure SDLC, compliance frameworks, and regulatory alignment.
Knowledge of observability concepts including monitoring, logging, and alerting
Understanding of SLAs, SLOs, and service performance management
Ability to collaborate with multi-functional partners and influence technical decisions
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly
Analytical skills to assess system performance, operational metrics, and improvement opportunities.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Flexible spending account
401(k) matching
Employee stock grants
Employee stock purchase plan
Paid time off
Up to 12 paid holidays
Paid parental and family leave
Family building benefits
Back-up care
Childcare subsidy
Tuition assistance
College coaching
Short- and long-term disability
Voluntary AD&D coverage
Voluntary accident coverage
Voluntary life insurance
Voluntary disability insurance
Voluntary long-term care insurance
Mobile service & home internet discounts
Pet insurance
Access to commuter and transit programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructureAWSAzureCI/CD systemsGitLab administrationIaC toolsTerraformCloudFormationBicepDevOps methodologies

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationanalytical skillsmentorshipperformance developmentorganizational skillsinfluenceproblem-solvingteam management