Engineering Manager

About the role

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of approximately 10 engineers across platform, infrastructure, backend, and related engineering disciplines.

Set technical direction for Exiger’s cloud platform, including AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes-based application delivery, Terraform/IaC standards, CI/CD, observability, and operational practices.

Define short-term and long-term platform priorities and ensure active projects align with engineering and business goals.

Partner with application engineering teams to provide reusable platform capabilities, self-service workflows, documentation, and operational standards.

As an organizational resource to unblock and enable multiple engineering teams across diverse platform and infrastructure challenges.

Lead major platform initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, security, developer productivity, and cost efficiency.

Install and promote a culture of learning, engineering excellence, ownership, and platform accountability across engineering.

Own standards for runbooks, platform documentation, incident response readiness, and operational knowledge sharing.

Guide CI/CD, deployment, rollback, testing, and self-healing architecture improvements.

Partner with AWS account teams and internal stakeholders to evaluate AWS services and influence adoption where appropriate.

Contribute to planning, staffing, and financial decisions that support the long-term success of the platform team.

Lead hiring, technical interview calibration, and team growth planning for platform engineering.

Help Exiger transition from rapid delivery to sustainable, secure, high-quality delivery at scale.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with meaningful experience in backend, infrastructure, platform, DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience leading software, infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE teams.
• Recent experience leading or operating production cloud infrastructure, preferably in AWS.
• Strong working knowledge of infrastructure as code, especially Terraform or similar tools.
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes or container-based application platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD, deployment automation, release management, observability, and operational excellence.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, evaluate architecture tradeoffs, and guide engineers without needing to personally implement every change.
• Experience building or operating reliable, scalable SaaS, PaaS, or internal platform systems.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, build ownership, manage delivery, and foster a strong engineering culture.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to partner across engineering, product, security, finance, and executive stakeholders.

Preferred

• Experience with AWS account strategy, IAM, networking, EKS, RDS, SQS, Lambda, or other AWS services used in production platforms.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD, Kargo, or Flux.
• Experience building or operating internal developer platforms, golden paths, or self-service infrastructure workflows.
• Experience with observability stacks such as LGTM, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
• Experience with Java, Python, or Go-based application ecosystems.
• Experience operating in FedRAMP, DOD Impact Level, air-gapped, or compliance-heavy environments.
• Experience working in a rapidly evolving, PE-backed or high-growth company.

What you bring to the team

Required:

• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain a security clearance in the future.
• Active clearance is a plus.
• Preferred locations are McLean, VA, Richmond, VA, or New York City.
• Remote candidates may be considered if they bring exceptionally strong cloud platform engineering leadership experience.

Our tech stack

Core platform stack: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Kargo, LGTM, ELK

Application ecosystem: Java, Python, Go