Manager Platform Engineering
Job in
Waukesha, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, 53188, USA
Listed on 2026-02-17
Listing for:
DR Power LLP
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-02-17
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, IT Project Manager, Cloud Computing, IT Support
Job Description & How to Apply Below
** Last Updated:
June 19, 2024
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Waukesha, WI - USAtime type:
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Posted Todayjob requisition :
JR12342
** We are Generac, a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world.
** Over the 60 plus years of Generac’s history, we’ve been dedicated to energy innovation. From creating the home standby generator market category, to our current evolution into an energy technology solutions company, we continue to push new the role of Manager Platform Engineering working onsite in Waukesha, Wisconsin, you will be part of the Infrastructure and Enterprise Architecture team.
The Manager Platform Engineering leads the team that designs, builds, and maintains our core infrastructure capabilities. This role combines technical strategy with people leadership to transform how technology is consumed across the enterprise. Beyond just building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP), this leader owns the broader platform ecosystem, ensuring infrastructure is accessible via multiple friction-free interfaces. This role drives the shift from manual provisioning to self-service automation, treating the platform as a product that empowers development teams to ship software securely, efficiently, and at speed.
** Major Responsibilities
**** Platform Strategy & Architecture
*** Manages the internal infrastructure ecosystem as a product, utilizing user research to define roadmaps that balance innovation with stability
* Designs and manages a unified platform architecture that spans public cloud (Azure/AWS), on-premise data centers, and edge locations
* Ensures a consistent "cloud-like" consumption model (API-driven, automated) regardless of where the workload resides
* Ensures platform capabilities are exposed through diverse methods, including command-line interfaces, APIs, and graphical portals, to meet the varied needs of engineering teams
** Stakeholder Partnership
*** Partners proactively with Software Engineering, Product Management, and Data leaders to ensure the platform roadmap directly supports business velocity and application requirements
* Establishes regular feedback mechanisms with internal customer groups to identify friction points in the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) and prioritize high-impact automation
** Team Leadership & People Management
*** Recruits, mentors, and leads a team of Platform Engineers and Dev Ops specialists, fostering a culture of psychological safety, experimentation, and engineering excellence
* Sets clear technical and professional goals, conducts regular 1:1s, and manages career progression to build a high-performing, cross-functional team
* Manages team capacity, balancing strategic platform roadmap work with operational health and technical debt reduction
** Automation & Tooling
*** Owns the strategy for defining all infrastructure as software, utilizing tools to ensure reproducibility and disaster recovery readiness
* Oversees the pipelines and tooling that enable continuous delivery, ensuring that build-and-deploy processes are automated, secure, and observable
* Defines and maintains "Golden Paths" for application deployment and container orchestration (Kubernetes/AKS), simplifying complexity for application developers
** Reliability & Operations
*** Collaborates with Site Reliability Engineering to build observability and reliability…
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