Platform Acceleration Manager

Role Overview

• Own and prioritize the Platform Acceleration roadmap for the enterprise runtime product (golden profiles, lifecycle automation, admission control, runtime security)
• Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers, automation engineers, and runtime security specialists
• Drive PoC initiatives: define success criteria, validate performance and security, and convert validated PoCs into production-ready reference implementations; actively contribute technically to PoCs and reference builds
• Define and enforce operability acceptance criteria and formal handoff processes (performance baselines, monitoring/alerts, upgrade & rollback plans, runbooks)
• Deliver reusable, production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC), operators, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that downstream teams (Foundations, DevEx, Runtime SRE) adopt — including authoring or reviewing critical modules
• Lead rapid-response cross-team efforts to diagnose and remediate systemic platform problems; participate hands-on in complex troubleshooting as required
• Partner with Cloud Strategy and Cloud Architecture to align innovations to enterprise direction and ensure reference implementations meet architecture and compliance expectations
• Establish versioning, deprecation, and change-management practices for runtime artifacts; ensure downstream teams can safely upgrade and adopt new capabilities
• Represent the PA team in leadership forums, architecture reviews, and incident post-mortems where platform design changes are required
• Track and report success metrics for adoption, operability, and risk reduction; iterate the roadmap based on telemetry and stakeholder feedback

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering, SRE, and/or related roles
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes at scale (EKS/AKS/GKE), cluster lifecycle automation, and runtime tooling
• 5+ years of experience with IaC (Terraform, Terraform modules, Helm, operators), admission controllers (OPA/Gatekeeper or webhooks), and policy-as-code practices
• 3+ years in a technical leadership and/or people management role
• Experience contributing code, IaC, and/or design artifacts
• Experience taking prototypes/PoCs to production-grade solutions and enabling downstream teams to operate them
• Experience working cross-functionally with architecture, security, operations, and DevEx teams
• Experience with prioritization, stakeholder management, release gating, and risk mitigation

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Kubernetes
• Terraform

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Health savings accounts
• Retirement savings plans
• Life and disability insurance programs
• Paid and unpaid time away from work