Senior Engineering Manager – Platform Engineering (DevOps TechOps)

Work Schedule

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:
Join our collaborative team as a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific where youll lead software development initiatives that advance scientific discovery and improve lives. Youll support engineering teams in developing innovative solutions across our portfolio from cloud platforms and AI applications to laboratory automation and diagnostic this role youll promote technical excellence encourage innovation and support teams to deliver high-quality software that serves our mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer.

Working closely with cross-functional partners youll set strategic direction implement agile methodologies and ensure successful delivery of complex software projects. Youll mentor and develop talent build collaborative relationships across teams and facilitate continuous improvement in our software development practices. This role offers the opportunity to work with emerging technologies while solving meaningful challenges in scientific instrumentation laboratory informatics and digital transformation.

REQUIREMENTS:

Experience

• 12 years of experience in software engineering DevOps or platform engineering.
• 5 years of people management experience including managing managers.
• Proven track record leadingDevOps or platform organizations at scale.
• Experience with:
  • Kubernetes preferablyAmazon EKS
  • Observability systems (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Datadog OpenTelemetry ELK)
  • CI/CD platforms preferablyGitHub Actions
• Experience operating in complex regulated or large enterprise environments is a plus.
• Demonstrated success working with globally distributed teams.

Leadership & Personal Attributes

• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels.
• Strongwritten and verbal communication including technical documentation and executive presentations.
• High emotional intelligence with a coaching-oriented leadership style.
• Ownership mindset with a strong sense of accountability and urgency.
• Learning agility and openness to feedback.
• Authentic transparent and collaborative.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a senior partner to product security infrastructure and application engineering leaders.
• Deep understanding of DevOps TechOps and cloud-native operating models.
• Translate complex technical topics into clear business outcomes for senior leadership.
• Drive alignment across teams throughclear documentation architectural decision records runbooks and operational playbooks.
• Prepare and deliverexecutive-ready presentationson platform strategy risks metrics and investment needs.
• Own and continuously improve SDLC processes including CI/CD release management incident management and post-incident reviews.
• Ensure compliance with internal standards security requirements and audits where applicable.
• Drive engineering excellence across reliability security performance and operational readiness.