Mgr, Infrastructure&Platform

Position: Mgr, Infrastructure&Platform(70010255)
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Job Summary


The Manager, Infrastructure Platform Engineering is responsible for the strategy, engineering, and operational leadership of the internal developer platform that delivers compute, storage, container, and infrastructure services as a product to engineering, network, and IT consumers across the enterprise. This role leads a team of platform engineers and software-oriented infrastructure engineers responsible for building self-service provisioning capabilities, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, container orchestration environments, and the automated workflows that enable internal customers to consume infrastructure rapidly, consistently, and securely.

The position serves as the engineering owner of the platform-as-a-product operating model and is accountable for platform reliability, developer experience, adoption, and unit economics.
The Manager partners closely with Cloud Engineering, Network Engineering, Security, Application Development, SRE, and product engineering teams to align the platform roadmap with enterprise technology strategy, accelerate software and service delivery, and reduce the operational burden of consuming infrastructure. This role replaces the traditional systems engineering management function with a software-engineering and Dev Ops leadership profile focused on automation, API-driven service delivery, and product management of internal infrastructure capabilities.

The Manager is accountable for team development, vendor and open-source technology selection, financial stewardship of platform investments, and continuous evolution of platform capabilities in support of the company's digital and network transformation objectives.


Responsibilities


• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and engineering execution for the internal developer platform delivering compute, storage, container, and infrastructure services as a product to internal consumers.

• Establish and operate a platform-as-a-product operating model, including platform product management practices, internal customer discovery, service-level objectives, and platform adoption metrics.

• Define the platform service catalog that internal teams consume to provision and operate infrastructure.

• Lead engineering of infrastructure-as-code frameworks, modules, and pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, and related tooling to automate the provisioning and lifecycle management of compute, storage, network, and platform resources.

• Establish coding standards, module ownership models, code review practices, and version control workflows for infrastructure and platform engineering teams.

• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure code, including automated testing, policy enforcement, drift detection, and continuous compliance.

• Drive the replacement of manual systems administration and ticket-driven provisioning with API-first, code-defined, and event-driven workflows.
Container Platforms and Orchestration

• Lead engineering, operation, and evolution of Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms supporting internal engineering, network function, and application workloads.

• Define and operate cluster lifecycle management, multi-cluster strategy, upgrade processes, capacity management, and platform security baselines.

• Support containerization of legacy workloads, cloud-native application enablement, and the operational integration of containerized…