Platform Engineering Manager

• Design, build, and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management — with security controls built in from the start
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of Power Design's first enterprise observability and AIOps platform, owning the decision end-to-end from vendor assessment through production rollout
• Develop and maintain observability tooling, dashboards, and automated remediation workflows covering metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting across cloud and on-premises environments
• Build and enforce CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform services using GitOps best practices
• Continuously evaluate the infrastructure footprint and identify workloads where cloud migration would improve resilience, reduce complexity, or lower cost — and build the business case to act on it
• Apply a security-first lens to every platform decision, including IAM/RBAC design, secrets management, Zero Trust implementation (Zscaler), and policy-as-code
• Create self-service infrastructure workflows — provisioning automation, access workflows, and internal developer tooling — to reduce ticket volume and enable engineering teams to move faster
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling for anomaly detection, event correlation, and operational insights to drive a proactive operations model
• Establish and own design standards, architectural consistency, and IaC strategy across the Platform Engineering function
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to platform engineers
• run delivery rituals, drive continuous improvement, and help shape hiring as the function grows
• Serve as the engineering lead for secure onboarding of new enterprise platforms, ensuring network controls, endpoint security, SSO, audit logging, and telemetry are in place from Day 1
• Collaborate with reliability, network, security, and cross-functional business teams to deliver stable, scalable, and self-service platform capabilities
• Produce and maintain clear technical documentation, design specifications, architectural standards, and runbooks
• Demonstrate Power Design's core values through every interaction and project outcome

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
• equivalent professional experience considered
• Experience: 7–10 years of progressive experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE — with meaningful time in both hands-on implementation and technical leadership
• Preferred certifications: HashiCorp Terraform Associate, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, CKA/CKAD, or equivalent cloud or platform engineering certifications
• Hands-on production experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, GCP, or OCI)
• breadth across multiple platforms strongly preferred
• Demonstrated history of evaluating infrastructure decisions through a cloud-first lens, identifying when to leverage cloud services rather than defaulting to on-premises solutions
• Hands-on expertise with Terraform or a comparable IaC framework
• GitOps pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Production experience implementing enterprise observability and AIOps tooling (Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent), including anomaly detection, event correlation, and automated remediation workflows
• Advanced scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, and/or Bash
• ability to build self-service platform patterns and reusable automation modules
• Deep understanding of security best practices, IAM/RBAC, secrets management, Zero Trust principles, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, CMMC, or similar)
• Experience with enterprise identity platforms (Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or equivalent) in production hybrid environments
• Strong working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, storage, and networking concepts across hybrid cloud environments
• Experience with SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident response frameworks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• able to lead design reviews, translate technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders, and drive alignment across teams
• Demonstrate and uphold Power Design's core values: integrity, accountability, teamwork, innovation, and growth

Preferred certifications: HashiCorp Terraform Associate, AWS/Azure Solutions Architect, CKA/CKAD, or equivalent cloud or platform engineering certifications