- Company Name
- Propel Holdings
- Job Title
- Manager Infrastructure Platform
- Job Description
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**Job title**
Manager, Infrastructure Platform
**Role Summary**
Lead the transition from traditional DevOps to an Infrastructure Platform Engineering function, setting strategy and guiding a cross‑functional team in designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, cloud‑native infrastructure and developer platforms.
**Expactations**
- Deliver a clear, executable roadmap that aligns cloud infrastructure, security, CI/CD automation, and platform reliability with company goals.
- Provide empathetic, transparent leadership, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high engineering quality.
- Direct hands‑on technical work, mentoring teammates and driving innovation through AI‑assisted tooling, IaC, and container orchestration.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Define and execute the platform strategy and quarterly milestones.
- Mentor, coach, and develop a high‑performing engineering team, ensuring skill growth and career progression.
- Collaborate with engineers to evaluate trade‑offs, refine system designs, and elevate code quality.
- Design internal developer platforms that enable self‑service, reduce cognitive load, and accelerate deployments.
- Champion Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, Ansible) and modern automation practices (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Promote containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes (EKS) and Helm.
- Embed shift‑left practices: security, compliance, observability, and quality early in the lifecycle.
- Standardize and automate CI/CD pipelines across teams; enforce observability and incident response frameworks (Datadog, PagerDuty, Rootly).
- Implement security hardening and compliance measures (CIS, PCI) across all infrastructure layers.
- Support internal/external audits with documentation and timely responses.
- Partner with application, risk, QA, and data teams to deliver safe, high‑usable self‑service experiences.
- Communicate progress, risks, and strategy to senior leadership and advocate platform value.
**Required Skills**
- 6+ years of software or infrastructure engineering delivering cloud, platform or IaC solutions.
- 2+ years of technical team leadership experience.
- Deep expertise in AWS (preferred) cloud infrastructure, networking, systems design, and security best practices.
- Proficiency with Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, GitHub Actions/Jenkins, Ansible.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: architecture, debugging, testing, documentation.
- Experience with CI/CD, observability, incident response tools (Datadog, PagerDuty, Rootly).
- Knowledge of security frameworks (CIS, PCI) and audit processes.
- Familiarity with AI‑assisted tooling to improve developer experience and reduce toil.
- Excellent communication, mentoring, and empathetic leadership skills.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Professional certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator, or relevant IaC credentials are a plus.