Cloud Platform Engineering Manager: Lead & Scale Infra

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hidden Jobs is seeking a seasoned leader to head a senior cloud infrastructure team responsible for the foundational platform used by product and engineering groups. You will blend people leadership with operational ownership of production systems and guide a major insourcing program in its first year.

The role requires guiding AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC decisions, owning incident response and SLOs, and driving automation and internal tooling.

Qualifications

• Two+ years managing an infrastructure/platform/SRE team at a product company.
• Ownership of incident response, on-call health, and SLO frameworks for critical production systems.
• Led at least one multi-quarter infrastructure migration or insourcing program end-to-end.
• Fluent in AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC; guide discussions with senior engineers.
• Experience taking over an established team and sustaining engagement during leadership transition.
• Clear perspective on team norms for AI-assisted engineering.
• Strong written and verbal communication across audiences.
• Calm, accountable leadership during incidents and change.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop a senior engineering team, including coaching, feedback, performance management, and career development.
• Own operational health across cloud infrastructure: incident response, on-call health, SLOs, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Plan and deliver a multi-quarter infrastructure insourcing program, sequencing work, managing dependencies, and communicating milestones.
• Guide technical priorities and tradeoffs across AWS accounts, networking, multi-region Kubernetes, IaC, GitOps workflows, datastore operations, and compliance-related infrastructure.
• Build leverage through internal tooling, automation, and paved paths that let product teams use infrastructure safely and independently.
• Partner with service frameworks, platform, data, and product engineering groups on shared infrastructure priorities and cross-team dependencies.
• Establish team norms for AI-assisted engineering and reduce toil through automation.
• Communicate roadmaps, operational risks, investment needs, and progress to engineering leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

People leadership

Mentoring & coaching

Incident response

SLO management

AWS

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Migration programs

Team change management

AI-assisted engineering

Communication

Calm leadership

Education

Tools

GitOps

Job description

Hidden Jobs is seeking a seasoned leader to head a senior cloud infrastructure team responsible for the foundational platform used by product and engineering groups. You will blend people leadership with operational ownership of production systems and guide a major insourcing program in its first year.

The role requires guiding AWS, Kubernetes, and IaC decisions, owning incident response and SLOs, and driving automation and internal tooling.