IT Platform Engineering Manager

Axle is a bioscience and information technology company that offers advancements in translational research, biomedical informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations nationally and abroad. With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we focus on developing and applying research tools and techniques to empower decision-making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Benefits We

Offer:

• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• 401K match up to 5%
• Educational Benefits for Career Growth
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Flexible Spending Accounts:
  • Healthcare (FSA)
  • Parking Reimbursement Account (PRK)
  • Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP)
  • Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)

We are seeking an IT Platform Engineering Manager with strong Dev Sec Ops  expertise to lead our platform engineering team and own the reliability, security, and scalability of our cloud and containerized infrastructure. This is a hands‑on leadership role combining people management, technical direction, and production operations. This is a hybrid position - local to the DC Metro Area.

You will partner with development, security (HIPAA and Fed Ramp High), and business stakeholders to set platform priorities, improve the developer experience, and embed security throughout the software delivery lifecycle. You will guide the team while contributing directly to architecture, automation, and complex troubleshooting.

Lead and develop the platform engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and clear ownership of delivery and operational responsibilities.

Own the platform roadmap and engineering standards. Prioritize work, manage team capacity, and communicate progress, dependencies, and technical risks to stakeholders.

Oversee and contribute to production Kubernetes operations, including cluster upgrades, Helm deployments, workload optimization, capacity planning, and application availability.

Establish Dev Sec Ops  practices across CI/CD pipelines, including code, dependency, container, and infrastructure scanning; secrets management; and risk‑based vulnerability remediation.

Guide AWS architecture and infrastructure security, including identity and access management, network segmentation, system hardening, and secure container design.

Standardize infrastructure provisioning and configuration through reusable Terraform modules, scripting, and version‑controlled deployment workflows that reduce manual work.

Own observability and operational readiness. Define service reliability objectives and maintain actionable monitoring, alerting, logs, runbooks, and tested recovery procedures.

Lead incident response and technical escalations, coordinate stakeholder communications, and turn root‑cause findings into improvements that prevent recurring failures.

Manage infrastructure costs and capacity, contribute to budget planning, and evaluate tools and vendors against security, reliability, and business requirements.

Demonstrated experience managing or leading platform engineering, Dev Ops, infrastructure, or SRE teams, including mentoring engineers and delivering technical initiatives.

4+ years of hands‑on experience managing production Kubernetes clusters, including operations, troubleshooting, upgrades, and workload optimization.

Strong proficiency with Helm charts for application deployment and configuration management.

Extensive experience with Docker and Docker Compose, including multi‑container architectures, image optimization, and secure container design.

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