Manager, Platform Engineering

What You'll Do:

The Manager, Platform Engineering - Developer Experience leads a product-focused pod within Platform Engineering, building tooling and workflows on top of the existing internal platform to enable developer experience across the organization. This role combines engineering leadership with product ownership. The ideal candidate has a strong Developer or DevOps background and hands-on experience with IDP portals such as Backstage.

Hiring Manager Notes: They want to build an Internal Developer portal for their Developer experience pod within Platform Engineering Platform (4 pods Infra as a code, CI/CD, Platform tools and Developer experience). The Developer portal will be for building developer tooling and self-service workflows on top of their existing platform infrastructure. This is not a regular DevOps/Cloud Manager position.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

Acts as Product Owner: defines the DevX roadmap, manages the backlog, and leads sprint planning and reviews

Engages engineering teams as internal customers to gather requirements and drive adoption of developer tooling

Sponsors code reviews and drives continuous improvement efforts

Participates in creation and review of user stories, providing input on effort estimation and architecture/design

Advocates for Agile best practices across the SDLC

Conducts proofs of concept using emerging developer experience technologies

Performs risk analyses and recommends quality improvements

Oversees onboarding and ongoing team training

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Manage the Developer Experience pod within Platform Engineering

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

[Required] Experience with Agile methodologies, including as a Product Owner

[Required] Able to treat a platform as a product with roadmaps, backlogs, and user research

[Required] Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences

[Required] Self-starter and team player collaborative and focused on collective success

Technical Skills:

[Required] Hands-on experience with Internal Developer Portals such as Backstage plugin development, service catalog configuration, and software templates

[Required] Experience building developer tooling and self-service workflows on top of existing platform infrastructure

[Required] Strong GitOps experience managing infrastructure and application delivery through Git-based workflows

[Required] Experience in DevOps tooling such as: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Artifactory and CI/CD pipeline design

[Required] Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) and Helm

[Required] Experience with AWS foundational services: VPCs, Security Groups, EC2, RDS, S3, KMS, IAM, and AWS CLI

[Preferred] Development experience in Node.js, TypeScript, React or Python

[Preferred] Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk

Education and/or Experience:

[Required] BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field, or equivalent experience

[Required] 7+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure/tooling disciplines

[Required] 3+ years in an engineering leadership or management role

Certificates or Licenses:

[Preferred] AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer

[Preferred] Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent

[Preferred] Project/program management certification