Senior Manager – Cloud & Infrastructure; Platform Engineering

Senior Manager – Cloud & Infrastructure (Platform Engineering)

Reporting to:
Director – Platform Engineering

Location:

Dallas

Catalyst Brands is expanding its Platform Engineering organization to power the next generation of digital experiences — and we’re looking for a Senior Manager, Cloud & Infrastructure to help lead that transformation. This is not a traditional infrastructure role. You’ll own and shape a platform engineering culture within Cloud & Infrastructure, grounded in customer‑centricity, automation‑first thinking and self‑service platform capabilities. Your work will enable hundreds of engineers to build, deploy and operate high‑performing digital products with autonomy, speed, reliability, and efficiency.

This unique opportunity will build the backbone of a modern platform engineering organization—where platform capabilities directly accelerate innovation, improve developer experience, and drive measurable business outcomes.

• Define and execute a cloud‑native platform strategy enabling hundreds of engineers to build, deploy, and operate services through reusable, standardized, self‑service platform capabilities used across teams and brands.
• Drive platform adoption and governance across brands and teams by treating the platform as a product — maintain a roadmap, define golden paths and standards, and ensure consistency without sacrificing team autonomy.
• Build and evolve a secure, scalable, and resilient AWS‑based platform using infrastructure as code (Terraform) and modern platform patterns (Git Ops, Kubernetes).
• Enable a “you build it, you run it” model by providing simple, reliable platform capabilities that empower teams to independently build and operate services.
• Establish a paved‑road developer experience, including CI/CD, deployment workflows, and environment provisioning that balance speed, safety, and consistency.
• Drive a reliability‑first mindset by implementing SLO/SLI frameworks, resilience patterns, and automated incident response practices.
• Partner with security, compliance, and risk teams to embed security guardrails directly into the platform (policy‑as‑code, automated compliance checks, secure defaults) rather than treating security as an afterthought.
• Own cloud cost strategy end‑to‑end, including visibility, attribution, forecasting, and optimization (Fin Ops), ensuring efficient use of resources at scale.
• Prioritize automation to eliminate operational toil and improve reliability at scale.
• Lead modernization of Catalyst’s cloud foundation, aligning to AWS Well‑Architected principles and modern landing zone patterns.
• Define and govern the multi‑account strategy, including account vending, OU structure, and network topology across brands and environments.

• Drive adoption of AI‑driven capabilities within cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability to improve reliability, deployment safety, and operational efficiency.
• Reduce operational toil through AI‑assisted incident detection, triage, and root cause analysis.
• Apply AI within observability and performance workflows, turning platform telemetry into actionable insights and automation.

• Hire, develop, and mentor a team of Cloud and Dev Ops engineers.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Set clear goals, provide ongoing feedback, and enable career growth.
• Promote a platform mindset focused on developer enablement and self‑service.
• Serve as a strategic partner in enabling scalable, high‑performing digital experiences.
• Translate business and engineering goals into platform capabilities and roadmaps.

• 8–12+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure, with 5+ years leading high‑performing engineering teams.
• Deep expertise designing and operating scalable, multi‑account AWS environments using cloud‑native architectures and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Proven experience building and evolving internal platform capabilities (e.g., CI/CD, deployment systems, developer self‑service platforms) used by multiple engineering teams.
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