Cloud Platform Engineering Manager — AWS & K8s

Mixpeek; United States; On-site; USD 163,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Mental health benefits

Job summary

LaunchDarkly seeks an Engineering Manager to lead its Cloud Engineering team, owning operational health and driving insourcing initiatives across AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC. This frontline leadership role focuses on scalable, reliable infrastructure and collaboration with product engineering teams.

You will guide tradeoffs, mentor engineers, and establish a high-performance, inclusive team culture while delivering meaningful business impact through automation and strategic initiatives.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing an infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering team at a product company.
• Demonstrated ownership of incident response, on-call health, and service-level objective frameworks for critical production systems.
• Experience leading at least one multi-quarter infrastructure migration or insourcing program from planning through completion.
• Technical fluency with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code practices, with the judgment to guide discussions and tradeoffs with senior engineers.
• Experience taking over an established team and maintaining engagement, performance, and retention through a leadership transition.
• A clear point of view on team norms and practices for AI-assisted engineering.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain priorities to a range of audiences.
• Calm, thoughtful leadership during incidents and periods of change.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a senior Cloud Engineering team with clear expectations and career development.
• Own the operational health of the cloud infrastructure, including incident response and disaster recovery.
• Launch and deliver a multi-quarter insourcing program with milestones and dependencies.
• Guide priorities across AWS, networking, multi-region Kubernetes, IaC, GitOps, and compliance infrastructure.
• Build leverage through software and automation so product teams can use infra safely and independently.
• Support migrations with guidance and clear ownership boundaries.
• Establish team norms for AI-assisted engineering and reduce toil through automation.
• Maintain team health and foster an inclusive, collaborative environment.
• Partner with other platform teams on shared infra priorities and dependencies.
• Communicate roadmaps and risks to engineering leadership and stakeholders.
• Participate in hiring and team planning as the organization grows.

Skills

Leadership

Incident management

Cloud infrastructure

AWS

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CockroachDB

FedRAMP

Job description

LaunchDarkly seeks an Engineering Manager to lead its Cloud Engineering team, owning operational health and driving insourcing initiatives across AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC. This frontline leadership role focuses on scalable, reliable infrastructure and collaboration with product engineering teams.

You will guide tradeoffs, mentor engineers, and establish a high-performance, inclusive team culture while delivering meaningful business impact through automation and strategic initiatives.