Manager, Platform Engineering

Manager, Platform Engineering

Versant Health is one of the nation's leading administrators of managed vision care, serving over 35 million of our clients' members across the United States. Our purpose is to make healthy vision a reality for everyone by improving access to care and education in the communities we serve. Fueled by our mission to improve members' lives with easy-to-use vision solutions rooted in choice value, and care, we believe that everyone has the power to become anything they set their sights on.

See how you can make a difference with the support of strong leadership and a team environment.

Versant Health:
Making Healthy Vision a Reality for Everyone

What are we looking for?

The Platform Engineering Manager will lead the enterprise CI/CD and release platform while driving a migration from Bitbucket to Git Hub and enabling secure, governed API delivery using Axway and Cloudflare. Own automation, environment management, and release governance to deliver software faster, safer, and audit ready. The Platform Engineering Manager will set the strategy for scalable platform engineering practices that improve developer experience, reduce deployment risk, and increase consistency across application teams.

Partner closely with Engineering, Security, Dev Ops and QA to align release processes, API governance, and delivery standards with enterprise priorities. This role is responsible for building a resilient, secure, and modern delivery ecosystem that supports continuous improvement, operational excellence, and compliance readiness.

Where you will have an impact

• CI/CD & Platform Ownership
• Own delivery toolchain:
  Bitbucket → Team City → Octopus Deploy
• Standardize pipelines, templates, and deployment patterns
• Drive automation across build, test, deploy, and release workflows
• Environment Management
• Define and manage end-to-end environment strategy (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod)
• Implement automated environment provisioning (IaC) and configuration consistency
• Manage environment promotion, parity, and dependency coordination
• Ensure environments are stable, secure, and release-ready
• Integrate environment controls into Octopus deployment workflows and approvals
• Source Control Transformation
• Lead migration from Bitbucket to Git Hub and Team City to Git Hub Actions
• Establish branching strategy, repo governance, and PR standards
• Drive adoption with minimal disruption to delivery
• API Platform (Axway + Cloudflare)
• Axway: API lifecycle, governance, policy enforcement, publishing
• Cloudflare:
  Edge security (WAF, API protection, rate limiting, Zero Trust)
• Implement layered architecture:
• Cloudflare (Edge security) → Axway (API governance)
• Ensure CI/CD pipelines deploy APIs consistently into this model
• Dev Sec Ops  & Security
• Embed security into pipelines (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning)
• Integrate with Cloudflare API/security controls for runtime protection
• Enforce policy-as-code and Zero Trust principles
• Ensure audit-ready traceability (SOC/compliance alignment)
• Release Management (Octopus)
• Own end-to-end release lifecycle
• Standardize:
• Environment promotion workflows
• Approval gates & segregation of duties
• Rollback/recovery strategies
• Ensure releases align with Axway policies and Cloudflare security layers
• Leadership & Collaboration
• Lead Platform/Dev Ops/Release teams
• Partner with Engineering, QA, Security, and SRE
• Drive adoption of standardized, secure delivery practices

What's necessary to do the job?

• Bachelors degree required in Computer Science or related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• 8 + years in Dev Ops/Platform Engineering.
• 3+ years Leadership experience.
• Strong Hands on experience with:
  Bitbucket (Git), Git Hub (Git), Team City (CI), Octopus Deploy (release management).
• Experience with Axway API Management, Git Hub Actions, Kubermetes/Open shift experience preferred.
• Cloudflare(WAF, API Security, edge services.
• Experience in CI/CD release governance and Dev Sec Ops

HIPAA & Security Requirements

All Associates must comply with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as it pertains to disclosures of protected health information (PHI) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and HIPAA Privacy Policies and…