Platform Engineering Manager

PerfectServe

Completely RemoteFull TimeInformation Technology
Posted Today

Job description

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of platform engineers, owning hiring, onboarding, and performance management
  • Contribute to architecture decisions, infrastructure-as-code, and code reviews
  • Shape the platform roadmap and balance reliability, cost, security, and developer experience
  • Guide the deployment and evolution of cloud solutions with a focus on AWS
  • Partner with Platform Operations to enable AIOps and observability
  • Support incident response and participate in blameless post-mortems
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, security, and engineering teams

Requirements

  • 8+ years of platform engineering experience, including 2+ years in a leadership or mentoring role
  • Extensive hands-on Kubernetes administration at scale (ArgoCD, Helm)
  • Expert-level proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
  • Deep expertise with AWS (networking, compute, storage, security)
  • Working knowledge of observability, developer-platform (IDP) patterns, and security/IAM principles
  • Ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
  • Availability for on-call escalation coverage

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AIOps practices and ML-driven observability
  • Experience in healthcare SaaS or regulated environments
  • Experience designing internal developer platforms (IDP)
  • FinOps and cloud-cost awareness
  • AWS Solution Architect Professional or Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD) certifications

Benefits

  • Remote-first work environment
  • Health, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability Insurance options available day one
  • 401K with match and immediate vesting
  • 17 company holidays plus 2 floating holidays
  • Competitive paid time off policy
  • Internal advancement opportunities

Skills & tools

AWSKubernetesTerraformArgoCDHelmDevOpsSRE

What the team is looking for

Use this list as a quick fit check before you apply.

  1. 018+ years platform engineering experience
  2. 022+ years leadership or mentoring experience
  3. 03Kubernetes administration at scale
  4. 04ArgoCD, Helm, and cluster lifecycle management
  5. 05Expert-level Terraform and IaC
  6. 06Deep AWS expertise
  7. 07Observability and security/IAM knowledge
  8. 08Available for on-call escalation
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