Engineering Manager - Atlassian Cloud Platform

The Briefed; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Riot Games is seeking a Manager, Atlassian Cloud Platform to lead a small team responsible for Jira at enterprise scale across multiple sites. You will drive governance, architecture, and platform delivery while partnering with IT, InfoSec, and global studios to remove workflow friction and enable game development.

The role blends hands-on Jira expertise with strategic leadership, vendor management, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-paced gaming environment.

Qualifications

• > 2+ years of direct management experience leading technical individual contributors in an enterprise platform environment.
• - Proven experience in hiring practices, goal setting, performance coaching.

Responsibilities

• Lead a 2–5 application engineers and SaaS administrators; oversee hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.
• Define scalable governance models for Jira spaces, workflows, permissions, and add-ons; ensure platform health.
• Guide system architecture, environment promotions, integrations, security controls, and configuration automation across a multi-site Jira instance.
• Manage backlog intake, prioritization, discovery, and delivery; balance new features with tech debt and licensing.
• Collaborate with InfoSec, IT Infrastructure, Enterprise Systems, and global studios to align platform decisions with Riot's technology strategy.
• Oversee licensing, renewals, negotiations, and vendor escalations with Atlassian and partners.

Skills

Team Leadership

SaaS Governance

Platform Architecture

Backlog Management

Cross-Functional Alignment

Vendor Management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira Suite

Atlassian Confluence

Jira Service Management

Jira Product Discovery

Jira Advanced Planning

Atlassian Guard

Rovo

ScriptRunner

Structure

eazyBI

Salto

Job description

At Riot Games, Jira is a foundational enterprise platform that powers, tracks, and enables the majority of player-facing value streams and game development workflows across the company.

As Manager, Atlassian Cloud Platform, you will lead the engineering and administrative team responsible for the strategic direction, operational health, governance, and delivery of Riot’s enterprise Atlassian Cloud ecosystem. In this "player/coach" leadership role, you will manage a team of 2–5 application engineers while maintaining deep technical hands‑on expertise across Jira architecture, marketplace integrations, configuration-as-code, access security, and service management. You will partner with IT, InfoSec, and global game studios to eliminate workflow friction so Rioters can focus on making great games for players.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development: Manage, coach, and evolve a team of 2–5 application engineers and SaaS administrators; lead hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.
• SaaS Governance & Operational Health: Define and enforce scalable governance models for Jira spaces, workflows, custom fields, permissions, service portals, and Atlassian Marketplace add-ons.
• Platform Architecture & Delivery: Guide system architecture, environment promotions, integrations, security controls, and configuration automation across a multi-site, high-volume Jira instance.
• Roadmap & Backlog Management: Establish team processes for intake, prioritization, discovery, and delivery—balancing new feature requests with technical debt, licensing, maintenance, and platform upgrades.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with InfoSec, IT Infrastructure, Enterprise Systems, and global studio teams to align platform decisions with Riot's overarching technology strategy.
• Vendor Management: Build and maintain strategic relationships with Atlassian and marketplace vendor partners; oversee platform licensing, budget renewals, commercial negotiations, and technical escalations.

Management & Leadership

• 2+ years of direct management experience leading technical individual contributors (application engineers, SaaS administrators, or solutions architects) in an enterprise platform or business systems environment.
• Proven experience establishing hiring practices, setting quarterly goals, managing performance, and coaching technical talent.

Technical & Platform Depth

• 6+ years of hands-on experience administering and engineering Jira at enterprise scale (environments supporting thousands of users, multi-site deployments, and complex API integrations).
• Extensive experience operating large SaaS platforms with attention to high availability, RBAC security, change management, lifecycle governance, and support operations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of translating complex architecture trade-offs for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience in application engineering.
• Direct experience with extended Atlassian products: Jira Service Management, Assets, Jira Product Discovery, Jira Advanced Planning, Atlassian Guard, Rovo, Confluence, or Atlassian Analytics.
• Experience with Atlassian Marketplace tools (ScriptRunner, Structure, eazyBI) and configuration-as-code/migration platforms (Salto).
• Background managing Atlassian licensing tiers, enterprise renewals, and vendor commercial negotiations.
• Active Atlassian Certifications (e.g., ACP-120, ACP-420, or equivalent credentials).

Total Rewards & Benefits

• Work/Life Balance: Open paid time off policy, flexible work schedules, and observed corporate holidays.
• Health & Family Care: Comprehensive medical, dental, and life insurance; paid parental leave for you, your partner, and children.
• Financial & Retirement: 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
• Culture & Perks: Collaborative game-centric culture, professional development budgets, and wellness programs.