Sr Manager, Platform DevOps

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Job Overview
This role leads globally distributed DevOps/SRE teams across the US and India with end-to-end accountability for workforce planning team performance and the hiring development and retention of a high-performing organization.

It oversees the reliability scalability and cost efficiency of production and non-production environments across AWS and Azure applying expertise in capacity planning traffic management and cloud optimization.

Leading teams of 20 engineers and contractors the role drives platform delivery technical and security enhancements and multi-functional collaboration.

Success is measured by platform reliability timely delivery of capabilities team growth and the overall impact on organizational performance and customer experience.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and manage distributed DevOps/SRE teams (US and India) globally ensuring effective workforce planning shift and availability management performance development mentorship and continuous skill growth aligned with organizational needs. Own the security and vulnerability management lifecycle ensuring timely remediation cloud posture hardening secure configuration management and alignment with enterprise security governance and risk controls.

• Lead implementation of observability platforms across monitoring logging tracing and alerting; develop dashboards and insights to proactively identify failures bottlenecks and performance deviations.

• Define and implement continuous improvement practices across technical fields and organizational processes. Drive SRE frameworks including SLA/SLI/SLO definitions reliability measurement error-budget policies and adoption of standards that improve operational excellence.

• Provide end-to-end ownership of incident management including response coordination root-cause analysis (RCA) post-incident reviews and implementation of corrective actions to strengthen system resilience.

• Oversee technical vendor relationships to incorporate feature and function requests into product releases

• Drive and maintain the current and future technical roadmap in collaboration with design and architecture teams. Collaborate with product architecture quality and security organizations to align technical priorities and delivery objectives; drive execution of a long-term platform engineering roadmap covering modernization automation migrations and innovation initiatives.

• Recruit and hire qualified managers and team members to strengthen the platforms and the support model.

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelors Degree plus 7 years of related work experience OR Advanced degree with 5 years of related experience. Acceptable areas of study include Computer Science Engineering IT or equivalent experience. (Required)
• 7-10 years Relevant Product Management experience in an agile software product development environment. (Required)
• 2-4 years Experience in a leadership role. (Required)
• 7-10 years Technical Leadership: Strong command of cloud infrastructure (AWS & Azure) CI/CD systems GitLab administration IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep) automation and modern DevOps/SRE methodologies. (Preferred)
• 2-4 years Experience managing teams of 5 or more resources in direct reporting relationships in a Platform Management organization. (Preferred)

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies

• Experience delivering complex technology initiatives across engineering and operations

• Expertise in vulnerability management cloud security procedures secure SDLC compliance frameworks and regulatory alignment.

• Knowledge of observability concepts including monitoring logging and alerting

• Understanding of SLAs SLOs and service performance management

• Ability to collaborate with multi-functional partners and influence technical decisions

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly

• Analytical skills to assess system performance operational metrics and improvement opportunities

Licenses and Certifications:

• Cloud certifications (AWS or Azure)

• Kubernetes or related containerization certifications

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel:
Travel Required (Yes/No):

DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No
Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No

Base Pay Range: $160000 - $288500

Corporate Bonus Target: 20%

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidates actual pay will be based on various factors such as work location qualifications and experience so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

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