Senior Engineering Manager, Platform & DevSecOps

The Opportunity We're seeking a Senior Engineering Manager with deep Platform and DevSecOps expertise to lead a team building secure, reliable, and developer-friendly platform capabilities. You'll own the strategy, people leadership (including managing tech leads), roadmap execution, and governance across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, containers/Kubernetes, observability, cost, and security-by-default practices. Your responsibilities include delivering at scale, partnering with Product, Security, and Data to create paved roads that accelerate the entire engineering org. People, Org & Leadership Build and lead a Platform/DevSecOps team; hire, coach, develop, and retain top talent. Establish career ladders, growth plans, and succession planning; run healthy on-call rotations and capacity planning. Foster a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement (blameless postmortems, strategic retention). Strategy, Roadmap & Stakeholders Own the platform strategy and multi-quarter roadmap; define OKRs that balance developer velocity, reliability, security, and cost. Translate business goals into measurable outcomes; set and track success metrics (change failure rate, MTTR/MTTD, lead time). Partner with Product, Security, Data, and Application leaders to define interfaces, SLAs/SLOs, and shared accountability. Platform Architecture & Governance Set technical direction for build/release, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes/EKS runtime, and observability. Establish guardrails (golden paths, templates, policy-as-code, org standards) to enable autonomy with compliance. Drive cost, performance, and availability improvements; own platform budgets/forecasts and FinOps practices. DevOps & Security Standardize CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins or similar), artifact signing/SBOM, progressive delivery (blue-green/canary). Enforce security-by-design: SCA/SAST/DAST in pipelines, secrets management, least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, runtime hardening. Lead remediation SLAs with Security; maintain audit-ready evidence for enterprise standards and regulations. Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability Operate secure cloud platforms (AWS) via IaC (Terraform/Pulumi) with drift detection and change controls. Define and enforce SLOs/error budgets; lead incident response for platform services, drive post-incident actions to closure. Ensure multi-region resiliency where required; own backup/restore strategies and disaster recovery readiness. Communication, Documentation & Change Management Publish clear reference architectures, runbooks, and standards; keep documentation current and discoverable. Communicate priorities, trade-offs, and status to execs and cross-functional partners; influence with data. Requirements: Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience. 10+ years total experience in Platform/SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure, including 4+ years leading engineers with at least 2+ years managing tech leads or multiple teams. Proven track record delivering secure, reliable, cross-team platforms serving many product squads. Strong Linux, networking, and troubleshooting fundamentals. Proficiency in Python/Bash; automation around CI/CD, infra, and operations. Deep AWS experience (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/DocumentDB/DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, security groups) and Kubernetes in AWS. IaC expertise (Terraform preferred; Pulumi a plus) with sound practices (modularity, versioning, policy checks, drift detection). Observability at scale (logs/metrics/traces, alerting design, SLOs) and incident management/command skills. Security best practices across build/deploy/runtime; RBAC/ABAC and identity standards (OAuth, SAML, OIDC); secrets management. Preferred: AWS DevOps Engineer Professional and/or AWS Solutions Architect (Assoc/Pro). Exposure to data platforms (e.g., Databricks), streaming/edge workloads, or hybrid/private networking patterns. Vendor and budget management; contract evaluation and TCO/ROI analysis.

Created: 2026-03-04