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About the Role :

Were looking for a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering to lead two core pillars for the SolarWinds Observability Platform : Developer Experience (DevEx) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

Youll guide a team that builds internal developer platforms, improves CI/CD and testing workflows, and ensures our cloud-native services remain reliable, scalable, and performant.

This is a hands-on leadership role with strong ownership, high visibility, and impact across global engineering teams.

What Youll Do :

Platform Engineering & DevEx :

- Lead a team focused on improving developer workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and test automation.

- Build tools, templates, and automation that make development easier, faster, and more consistent.

- Drive adoption of best practices that improve engineering productivity and reduce friction.

- Track and improve DevEx metrics such as deployment frequency, build times, and MTTR.

Site Reliability Engineering :

- Lead SREs responsible for uptime, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.

- Implement SRE fundamentals : SLOs, proactive alerting, incident response, capacity and cost management.

- Strengthen observability, monitoring, and deployment reliability across Kubernetes-based services.

- Guide architectural decisions across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps workflows.

- Partner with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to align platform initiatives with business needs.

- Promote strong engineering standards, documentation, and technical ownership.

Must Have :

- 10+ years in SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure.

- 5+ years managing engineering teams.

- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure, CI/CD, Terraform, and GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux).

- Solid understanding of SRE practices (SLOs, incident management, capacity, cost).

- Experience improving developer experience, workflows, or internal platforms.

- Excellent communication and ability to influence across global teams.

- Experience with internal developer portals (e.g., Backstage).

- Background in distributed systems or SaaS platforms.

- Programming experience in Go, Java, or Python.