Sr Manager, Platform Engineering

Key Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Lead the design, development, deployment and operational management of automated, resilient, high availability, self-healing, secure platforms with native-AI capabilities for IT needs, serving both internal as well as customer business capabilities.
• Lead, Build and manage the Platform Engineering team and function — hiring, mentoring, performance management, and technical roadmap ownership.
• Plan, build and operate an OpenTelemetry Observability platform with technologies including Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, Alertmanager on Kubernetes/RKE2 using Helm and ArgoCD.
• Build an automated federated Observability Edge Stack — Prometheus + OTel collector nodes deployed per site and Zabbix auto-discovery configuration and Prometheus scrape profile library for 10+ device classes (Cisco, Juniper, Dell, NetApp, etc.).
• Design, develop and manage engineering lifecycle platforms for high-velocity secure SDLC using Gitlab and similar / related technologies.
• Build and operate iaC and CI/CD platforms including GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible AWX, Helm, and ArgoCD for automated provisioning and application deployment.
• Own, enhance and operate critical IT platform technologies e.g Boomi for integrations, AWS for Cloud environments, including their hosted infrastructure.
• Establish and enforce platform security posture: secrets management via CyberArk/Conjur, RBAC, mTLS, compliance boundary design, and zero inbound telemetry architecture.
• Build and integrate ITSM capabilities for various platforms e.g automated incident creation, CI enrichment, and CMDB correlation.
• Define and implement extensibility patterns including AIOps: e.g anomaly detection hooks, event correlation pipeline design, and integration with future ML/AI tooling.
• Partner with other IT and business teams for App Dev, requirements capture, delivery validation and integration needs.
• Represent platform engineering in cross-functional architecture reviews and executive-level program updates.
• Perform other management and technical duties as required and assigned for team and operational resilience e.g team building, on-call rotation, etc.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant technical experience with 4+ years in a management (or Principal-level) role leading a engineering team.
• DevOps / Platform Engineering - 8+ years, End-to-end ownership of developer/infrastructure platforms; Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, service-mesh, containerized workloads.
• GitOps / CI-CD - 5+ years GitLab CI/CD, pipeline authoring, infrastructure-as-code delivery.
• Infrastructure (Linux/VM) - 8+ years Linux systems administration, VM lifecycle (VMware vCenter/VCF), Netapp storage and compute provisioning.
• Working knowledge of Networking - 3+ years, TCP/IP, BGP/OSPF, SNMP protocol.
• AI tooling – Strong understanding (or 1+ years experience) with MCP, Agentic workflows, SRE workflows e.g AIOps for Anomaly detection, event correlation, alert noise reduction on Prometheus and Grafana stack.
• Experience with Secrets & Security - 4+ years, CyberArk, Conjur, Vault, or equivalent; RBAC design, compliance boundary architecture.
• Engineering Management - 4+ years, Hiring, team building, performance management, roadmap ownership for teams of 5+ engineers.

Preferred Skills

• Hands-on experience or working knowledge of Boomi integrations PaaS(iPaaS) technologies.
• Hands-on experience working with AWS products in a Well-architected Framework and multi-account model to develop various compute, storage, network iaaS and PaaS services for IT applications.
• Hands-on experience working with BAS / BMS systems in a Datacenter / OT environment.