Senior Manager, Platform Engineering – Cloud Foundations
$120,900–$187,000 year
HybridRichmond, Virginia, United States or Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Lead a team of cloud engineers responsible for delivering and operating foundational AWS and Azure capabilities, including networking, identity, security controls, and governance guardrails. Establish strategic direction for Cloud Foundations services and oversee implementation of enterprise cloud platforms, ensuring reliability, scalability, and alignment with business value. Drive automation-first practices using Terraform and GitOps while fostering developer self-service through standardized patterns and reusable services. Partner with architecture, security, and operations teams to translate strategy into operational capabilities, manage incident response, and optimize cloud costs through FinOps. Build high-performing teams and champion a product-oriented mindset that balances platform stability with rapid application enablement.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
- 8–12+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or related technology roles
- 3-5+ years of experience leading technical teams and developing engineering talent
- Strong experience with both AWS and Azure cloud platforms, including networking, identity, security, governance, and core infrastructure services
- Experience leading platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or cloud operations teams in a large-scale enterprise environment
- Hands-on troubleshooting experience across cloud and on-prem environments
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform
- Familiarity with cloud-native governance capabilities including policies, guardrails, landing zones, and compliance frameworks
- Experience establishing operation excellence practices, including incident management, service reliability, monitoring, and continuous improvement
- Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate across architecture, engineering, security, operations, and executive leadership
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to lead through change, simplify complexity, and drive organization adoption of modern cloud practices
- A positive, customer-first attitude and a passion for developing high-performing teams
- A Hybrid schedule of both Remote and In-Office days
- In office days are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
- working hours targeting our core business hours of 9am-5pm EST
- This role is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship
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