Manager, Platform Engineering

Data Innov - HQ 463 Mountain View Dr Colchester VT 05446 USA

The Platform Engineering Manager will take a hands‑on approach in building cloud‑native infrastructure while laying the groundwork for a future team. This role will also be critical in establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to increase development velocity and standardizing and enforcing SDLC policies. The Platform Engineering Manager will need to demonstrate strong leadership, technical execution, and strategic planning to ensure the company is prepared to scale its future product rollouts.

• Hire and retain top engineering talent by implementing rigorous selection criteria, fostering an inclusive culture, and ensuring team members have clear career progression opportunities
• Provide continuous feedback, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to enhance technical and leadership skills within the team
• Build a high‑performance culture by fostering collaboration, recognizing achievements, and ensuring team members feel valued and motivated, with clear responsibilities and expectations that drive accountability and impact
• Design, implement, and maintain a scalable cloud‑native platform leveraging Kubernetes, AWS services, and infrastructure‑as‑code tools
• Lead a team of professionals, providing direction, support, and motivation to achieve individual and team goals
• Develop and enforce best practices for cloud‑native development to ensure high availability, reliability, and security
• Build and maintain observability frameworks, including logging, metrics, and distributed tracing, to provide actionable insights into system performance and health
• Develop alerting systems to enable proactive resolution of system issues
• Create and manage robust CI/CD pipelines for all software projects, enabling automated pipelines for builds, tests, and deployments
• Standardize deployment practices to ensure reliability, security, and speed across teams
• Establish and enforce SDLC policies, including standards for code quality, version control, and testing
• Advocate for and implement Dev Ops principles to foster collaboration between development and operations teams
• Act as a mentor and technical leader, helping development teams adopt cloud‑native technologies and workflows
• Define the strategy for scaling the Platform Engineering team, creating foundational processes that enable efficient team growth
• Champion the adoption of new technologies and methodologies, driving technical and operational excellence while supporting the team in staying ahead of industry trends
• Create and manage performance metrics to track the success and impact of the platform team, using data to drive decisions and improve team efficiency

• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word)
• 7+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Dev Ops roles
• Hands‑on experience with: containers in production environments (Kubernetes, ECS, Open Shift, Rancher), AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, EKS), infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform or Cloud Formation, CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, or similar
• Strong programming skills in SRE languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, or Bash scripting
• Deep understanding of observability tools and frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)
• Proven track record of implementing and scaling modern software deployment practices in complex environments
• Experience leading technical initiatives and setting the direction for platform engineering efforts
• Must comply with and pass initial background check and drug screening, as well as subsequent background checks, drug screenings and vaccine requirements as required by customer contracts
• Ability to follow DI’s policies and procedures and system usage practices
• Must comply with company vaccination policy
• Must have unrestricted work authorization in the United States

• BS or MS degree in computer science, engineering and 7+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Dev Ops roles or a related field OR 10 years of related working experience

• 3+ years in a management…