Manager, Platform Engineering & DevEx

• Developer Experience Leadership: Lead DevEx strategy across the GKE platform and related developer workflows. Design and implement intuitive self-service tools, onboarding accelerators, golden paths, and streamlined CI/CD workflows that enable developers to go from code to production with minimal friction.
• GKE Platform Management at Scale: Manage and optimize large-scale GKE environments across multiple SDLC stages and business units, ensuring the platform is highly available, secure, and cost-efficient.
• CI/CD Platform Enablement: Build, maintain, and standardize CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions and Terraform to drive deployment automation, testing, and compliance. Partner with developer teams to simplify pipeline creation and reduce lead time.
• Developer Onboarding & Self-Service: Build and support self-service solutions for namespace provisioning, app onboarding, and resource management to accelerate developer productivity while maintaining security and governance controls.
• Platform Product Thinking: Act as a product owner for the internal platform. Gather developer feedback, analyze friction points, and continuously improve the developer journey with data-driven enhancements.
• Workload Identity & Security: Implement identity-aware infrastructure using GCP IAM, Workload Identity, and Kubernetes RBAC to enforce secure access and least-privilege principles.
• Enterprise GKE Governance: Leverage ACM (Anthos Config Management), KCC (Kubernetes Config Connector), and GitOps practices to govern clusters and workloads across environments using policy-as-code.
• Custom Operators & Controllers: Develop and maintain Kubernetes controllers and operators to automate platform operations and improve resiliency and usability for developers.
• Observability & Feedback Loops: Build a unified observability experience for developers using Prometheus, Dynatrace, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry. Ensure actionable telemetry is available throughout the SDLC to improve debugging and performance monitoring.
• Zero Trust Security Integration: Ensure all platform services and clusters adhere to Zero Trust principles, including workload authentication, service-to-service communication, and VPC isolation.
• Multi-Cluster Ingress Design: Design and operate secure, scalable, and highly available ingress patterns across multi-cluster and multi-region environments.
• Developer Support & Troubleshooting: Serve as an escalation point and support channel for developers using the platform. Help diagnose and resolve issues with deployments, configurations, and platform integrations.
• Platform Automation & Integration: Automate lifecycle operations such as upgrades, scaling, and patching using Terraform, Helm, and APIs. Integrate developer tooling with Jira, SonarQube, GitHub, and ServiceNow to close feedback loops.
• Continuous Improvement & Learning: Stay current on Kubernetes, GKE, DevEx tools, and platform engineering trends. Continuously improve platform capabilities and developer productivity using industry best practices.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering, infrastructure management, or DevOps, preferably within enterprise environments.
• 3+ years of experience with GCP, including designing, deploying, and managing GKE clusters and related services.
• 3+ years of experience driving Developer Experience initiatives, such as building self-service platforms, golden paths, onboarding automation, and CI/CD templates.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD systems for automating build, test, and deploy workflows.
• Experience developing internal tooling or CLI/UX layers that abstract infrastructure complexity for application developers.
• Experience collaborating with developers to understand pain points and drive adoption of internal platform features.
• Strong background in observability practices and tools, with a focus on surfacing actionable insights to developers.
• Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect or Kubernetes Engineer certification preferred.

• Developer Experience Platforms: Experience building or contributing to internal developer platforms (IDPs), with a focus on usability, self-service, and paved paths.
• Kubernetes (GKE) at Scale: Expertise managing GKE clusters across SDLC stages, including security, multi-tenancy, and cost controls.
• CI/CD & GitOps: Deep experience with GitHub Actions, GitOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Kustomize, Helm).
• GCP Native Services: Strong hands-on knowledge of GCP services like IAM, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Artifact Registry, and Pub/Sub.
• Workload Identity & IAM: Familiarity with workload identity, service accounts, OPA/Gatekeeper, and Kubernetes RBAC in secure enterprise environments.
• Observability Tooling: Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry to implement developer-friendly observability patterns.
• Service Integration: Experience integrating cloud platforms with developer ecosystem tools (e.g., Jira, GitHub, ServiceNow, SonarQube) for enhanced feedback and workflow automation.

• Experience with Backstage, Port, or other developer portal tooling.
• Familiarity with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and policy enforcement in Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of enterprise software development lifecycles, DORA metrics, and value stream mapping.
• Exposure to Platform as a Product or SRE principles.

• Empathy for Developers: A strong sense of what makes developer workflows efficient, intuitive, and productive.
• Collaboration: Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills with platform, security, and application teams.
• Communication: Clear written and verbal communication tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Initiative & Ownership: Self-starter who takes ownership of platform initiatives and drives them to completion.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a bias for simplicity and automation.

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases

• Tuition assistance

• Established and active employee resource groups

• Paid time off for individual and team community service

• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

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