Platform Engineering Manager

Hi,

Hiring Platform Engineering Manager, responsible for leading and managing a team of engineers to build, maintain, and improve the company's internal platform that enables product development teams to efficiently build, deploy, and operate their applications. The ideal candidate will have experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), automation tools (Terraform, Ansible), and a strong understanding of DevOps principles and practices. This role requires a strategic thinker who can translate the platform vision into actionable steps and guide the team in delivering a reliable, scalable, and user-friendly internal developer platform.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of platform engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.
• Define and execute the platform roadmap in alignment with the overall technology strategy and the needs of product development teams.
• Design, build, and maintain the core components of the internal developer platform, including infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and logging solutions, and security controls.
• Drive the adoption of self-service capabilities to empower development teams and reduce operational overhead.
• Implement and promote DevOps best practices, including infrastructure as code, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and automated testing.
• Collaborate closely with product development teams to understand their requirements and provide them with the necessary platform tools and support.
• Ensure the platform is secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform-related issues, working with the team to identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest platform engineering technologies and trends, and evaluate their potential benefits for the organization.
• Build and mature the platform engineering team, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for the platform and its components.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or a full-stack engineering team.
• 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI).
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Deep understanding of DevOps principles and practices.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with GitOps methodologies.
• Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
• Experience with security best practices in cloud environments.
• Experience building and managing internal developer platforms.
• Contributions to open-source projects.

Warm Regards,

Gayathri