Senior Manager of Cloud Platform Engineering
Primary Office Location
626 Washington Place.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 15219.
Position Title
Senior Manager of Cloud Platform Engineering
Business Unit
Technology
Reports to
Director of Infrastructure Services
Position Overview
The Senior Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering, is responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise cloud infrastructure platforms supporting mission-critical business services. This role provides deep technical expertise in cloud architecture, automation, security integration, resiliency engineering, and operational excellence. The Senior Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering, partners with application, security, network, and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions aligned with regulatory and business requirements.
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide senior leadership for Cloud Platform Engineering and DevOps Engineering teams.
- Define and execute multi-year cloud platform strategy aligned to enterprise architecture and business growth.
- Establish governance models for cloud environments including identity, networking, security baselines, and cost management.
- Drive DevOps maturity including CI/CD standardization, automation frameworks, and release governance.
- Ensure integration of security (Develops) practices into engineering pipelines and platform design.
- Own cloud resiliency, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational readiness programs.
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Application Development leadership to align platform capabilities.
- Lead workforce planning, skills development, and succession planning for platform and DevOps teams.
- Develop and manage departmental budgets, vendor strategy, and cloud financial management (FinOps).
- Provide executive-level reporting on cloud health, risk posture, engineering productivity, and cost efficiency.
- Oversee design and operation of enterprise cloud landing zones and foundational platform services.
- Ensure standardization of infrastructure-as-code and automated provisioning frameworks.
- Establish scalable networking, identity, and segmentation patterns across cloud environments.
- Drive platform reliability engineering including monitoring, logging, and observability standards.
- Standardize CI/CD tooling, pipeline governance, and release automation practices.
- Ensure secure software supply chain controls and vulnerability scanning within pipelines.
- Drive automation of environment provisioning, configuration management, and deployment workflows.
- Measure and improve engineering productivity metrics (deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR).
- Promote collaboration between development, security, and operations teams.
Minimum Level of Education Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position
BA or BS
Minimum # of Years of Job Related Experience Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position
7
Skills Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position
- Ability to work and multi-task in a fast paced environment
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Excellent management skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Excellent organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills
- Detail-oriented
Licenses/Certifications Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position
Preferred, ITIL, AWS Solution Architect
Physical Requirements or Work Conditions Beyond Traditional Office Work
N/A