Platform Engineering Manager: Cloud Automation & AIOps

Power Design, Inc.; Gibsonton (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Dental plan

401(k) plan

Job summary

Power Design, Inc. is building out a Platform Engineering function within IT Infrastructure & Operations. This leader will transform a small team into an engineering-led discipline with automation, self-service, and observability at its core.

The role combines hands-on technical work with leadership, overseeing cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, OCI, and tooling like Terraform, Datadog, and Prometheus, while mentoring engineers and shaping the platform strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 7–10 years in infrastructure/platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE with hands-on and leadership experience.
• Hands-on production cloud experience (Azure/AWS/GCP/OCI).
• Experience with Terraform and GitOps pipelines.
• Production observability/AIOps tooling experience (Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Security-first platform decisions including IAM/RBAC and Zero Trust concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management with built-in security.
• Lead evaluation and rollout of enterprise observability and AIOps platforms end-to-end.
• Develop observability tooling, dashboards, and automated remediation across cloud and on-prem.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure using GitOps best practices.
• Drive cloud-first migrations to improve resilience and reduce cost where appropriate.
• Collaborate with security, reliability, and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable platform capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to platform engineers; lead design reviews.

Skills

Terraform

GitOps

Observability

Cloud platforms

Automation

SRE/DevOps

Python/PowerShell/Bash

Security best practices

IAM/RBAC

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/IS

Tools

Datadog

Dynatrace

New Relic

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Power Design, Inc. is building out a Platform Engineering function within IT Infrastructure & Operations. This leader will transform a small team into an engineering-led discipline with automation, self-service, and observability at its core.

The role combines hands-on technical work with leadership, overseeing cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, OCI, and tooling like Terraform, Datadog, and Prometheus, while mentoring engineers and shaping the platform strategy.