Cloud Infrastructure Manager (AWS, Kubernetes, Automation)

LaunchDarkly Group; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

LaunchDarkly is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Engineering team, responsible for foundational infrastructure across AWS, multi-region Kubernetes, Terraform and GitOps, CockroachDB operations, and disaster recovery. You’ll balance people leadership with technical judgment to deliver safe, scalable platforms.

In your first year you’ll steer a marquee infrastructure insourcing program, align cross-functional partners, and build automation that reduces toil while advancing the

Qualifications

• 2+ ye

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a senior Cloud Engineering team, providing clear expectations, coaching, feedback, performance management, and career-development support.
• Own the operational health of LaunchDarkly’s cloud infrastructure, including incident response, on-call health, service-level objectives, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Launch and deliver a multi-quarter infrastructure insourcing program, including sequencing work, managing dependencies, communicating milestones, and ensuring a successful transition.
• Guide technical priorities and tradeoffs across AWS infrastructure, networking, multi-region Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, GitOps, datastore operations, and compliance-related infrastructure.
• Build leverage through software, automation, and paved paths that help product engineering teams use infrastructure safely and independently.
• Support migrations by providing guidance, patterns, and enablement while maintaining clear ownership boundaries with partner teams.
• Establish team norms for effective AI-assisted engineering and identify opportunities to reduce operational toil through AI and automation.
• Maintain team health and continuity through change, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and accountable environment.
• Partner with Service Frameworks, Core Platform, Revenue Platform, Data Platform, and product engineering teams on shared infrastructure priorities and cross-team dependencies.
• Communicate roadmaps, operational risks, investment needs, and progress clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Participate in hiring and team planning as the organization grows.

Job description

LaunchDarkly is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Engineering team, responsible for foundational infrastructure across AWS, multi-region Kubernetes, Terraform and GitOps, CockroachDB operations, and disaster recovery. You’ll balance people leadership with technical judgment to deliver safe, scalable platforms.

In your first year you’ll steer a marquee infrastructure insourcing program, align cross-functional partners, and build automation that reduces toil while advancing the