Manager, Platform Engineering - Kubernetes

Liberty Mutual Insurance; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty Mutual Insurance is hiring a Manager, Platform Engineering - Kubernetes to lead and grow a senior team responsible for an enterprise-scale Kubernetes platform supporting the company’s digital infrastructure. The role blends technical leadership with people management to optimize staffing, performance, and delivery velocity.

You will drive platform reliability, security, and operations while maturing self-service capabilities for developers and modernizing cloud and on-premises

Qualifications

• Proven ability to create a healthy team culture, engage staff and gain buy-in.
• Hands-on experience managing cloud native infrastructure-based operations with IaC and DevOps practices.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a senior engineering team to enable scalable Kubernetes platform delivery.
• Allocate resources and manage performance to align with business priorities and costs.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to define KPIs for stability, security, and delivery quality.
• Drive adoption of agile practices and improve engineering workflows across teams.
• Oversee vendor partnerships and talent onboarding for the unit.
• Conduct performance reviews and mentor team members to grow capabilities.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud IaC

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in technical or business discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud Infrastructure

IaC

Job description

We deliver our customers peace of mind every day by helping them protect what they value most. Our passion for placing the customer at the center of everything we do is driving a transformational shift at Liberty Mutual. Operating as a tech startup within a Fortune 100 company, we are leading a digital disruption that will redefine how people experience insurance.

At Liberty, you'll thrive in a hybrid setting that fosters in-person collaboration, innovation and growth. This approach optimizes both remote and in-person interactions, enabling you to connect and ideate with your team and deepen valuable relationships across the company, while still enjoying the flexibility of remote work for focused tasks and projects.

This role has a hybrid work schedule (2 days onsite) and we are considering candidates based in Portsmouth, NH, Boston, MA, Plano, TX and Indianapolis, IN.

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future. We will not sponsor employment visas. Candidates who will require future sponsorship, including candidates on CPT/OPT/STEMOPT who will require future sponsorship, are not eligible to apply.

Job Introduction

The GDS Application Environments team is looking to hire a candidate for their Manager, Platform Engineering - Kubernetes position. The candidate will be responsible for hiring, managing, and deploying resources across team(s) to enable optimal alignment of staff to business priorities. Coaches and evaluates performance and quality of work delivered by team members. Creates motivating work environment for team(s) and ensures team is constantly learning and delivering quality code. Understands tools, architecture, security and scalability needs for assigned team(s); provides technical engineering guidance especially with less experienced team members. Manages total cost of ownership, advocates for the removal of technical debt, assists and supports team effectiveness. Champions and effectively utilizes agile methodology and practices.

Come lead the engineering team evolving an enterprise scale Kubernetes platform that underpins our Fortune 100 company's strategic technological direction. Manage the senior engineering team that is pivotal to enabling application delivery, advancing self-service developer capabilities, modernizing cloud and on-premises infrastructure, and sustaining platform reliability, security, and operations.

About The Job

• Establish clear expectations and accountability while building an inclusive, high-engagement culture where people can challenge ideas, learn from failure, and do their best work.
• Ensures services and platforms are enhanced and maintained to meet business's functional need. In partnership with Product Owner, identify key performance indicators to ensure work product, operational stability and security excellence is maintained.
• Utilizes AI and automated reporting to set and coach toward clear engineering goals and improve planning, engineering workflows and platform outcomes. Do this while maintaining human accountability.
• Understands the business domain and product vision. In partnership with Director, Architect, Tech Leaders and Scrum Master align the team's work to the strategic business and technical goals .
• Participates in the development of technology vision, strategies, critical success factors and operating plans for platform
• Responsible for defining operational standards and metrics, establishing how they will be measured and holding team members accountable to meeting them. On-point leader for your space's incident management.
• Initiates and fosters collaborative partnerships with aligned vendor. Responsible vendor management and workforce planning for your unit.
• Demonstrated success influencing across organizational boundaries, managing dependencies, and communicating technical risks and decisions to both engineering and executive audiences.
• Removes roadblocks and obstacles; manages interdependencies when needed, including alignment with partner teams your team relies upon to deliver.
• Manages the quality of work delivered by team members and effectively addresses performance issues in a timely manner.
• Understands the team's work process enough to provide relevant technical coaching and guide engineering trade off decisions.
• Coordinates and delivers performance reviews. Drives professional development via hands on learning, mentoring experiences, rotations as applicable.
• Hires talent and actively engages in recruiting processes.
• Coordinates with vendors to ensure external talent management, on-boarding and transitions are performed in a highly effective manner.
• May lead efforts to evaluate, select and implement new technologies to enhance application or platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor`s or Master`s Degree in technical or business discipline.
• Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in a practice relevant domain including delivering software solutions in an agile environment.
• Minimum 3 years in a leadership role preferred.
• Proven ability to create a healthy team culture, build fully engaged staff and gain technical staff's buy-in on the impact of their work.
• Technical background managing a large-scale platform that is consumed by multiple business units across a highly regulated enterprise.
• Hands-on experience managing cloud native infrastructure-based operations and infrastructure as code, devops, CICD based solutions.
• Able to manage complex technology development concepts, capabilities and maturity.
• Requires excellent analytical ability, consultative communication, presentation and management skills, strong judgment and ability to effectively liaise with cross functional stakeholders and optimize teams.
• Demonstrated ability to operate collaboratively and build consensus. In-depth knowledge of technology standards and guidelines; knowledge of management concepts, practices and techniques; thorough knowledge of business functions and operations, objectives and strategies.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS and/or on-premises distributions.
• Practical familiarity with AI-assisted engineering and understanding of where AI adds value and where human accountability remains. Expertise with a specific AI product is not required.

About Us

Pay Philosophy: The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role. Some roles at Liberty Mutual have a corresponding compensation plan which may include commission and/or bonus earnings at rates that vary based on multiple factors set forth in the compensation plan for the role.

At Liberty Mutual, our goal is to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and can thrive. We build an environment that welcomes a wide range of perspectives and experiences, with inclusion embedded in every aspect of our culture and reflected in everyday interactions. This comes to life through comprehensive benefits, workplace flexibility, professional development opportunities, and a host of opportunities provided through our Employee Resource Groups. Each employee plays a role in creating our inclusive culture, which supports every individual to do their best work. Together, we cultivate a community where everyone can make a meaningful impact for our business, our customers, and the communities we serve.

We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://www.libertymutualgroup.com/about-lm/careers/benefits

Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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