Platform Engineering Manager for Internal Dev Platform

Justia, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Retirement benefits

Paid time off & vacation

Parental leave

Life insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Bonuses

Job summary

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York City or Washington, D.C. seeks an Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering to lead a team building the firm's internal developer platform.

You will own the team’s roadmap, manage delivery, and balance hands-on technical leadership with people management to improve developer productivity and standardize engineering practices. The role requires strong delivery-management skills, architecture guidance, and collaboration with security, governance, and

Qualifications

• Proven people leadership: hiring, coaching, performance management, and team development.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of platform engineers, fostering a high-performing culture.
• Own platform engineering roadmap, delivery, and release management; align with firm strategy.
• Guide architecture, review designs, and set coding standards across the team.
• Ensure platform reliability, security, and on-call health with continuous improvement.
• Partner with stakeholders and vendors; communicate roadmap and risks to leadership.
• Own hiring, onboarding, and workforce planning to scale the team.

Skills

People leadership

Delivery management

Go/Python

CI/CD

IaC/GitOps

Cloud - AWS/Azure

Kubernetes

Observability/SRE

Platform security

Test automation

Stakeholder communication

ITIL familiarity

Lean/Agile

AI governance awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bicep/ARM

Helm

Kustomize

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York City or Washington, D.C. seeks an Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering to lead a team building the firm's internal developer platform.

You will own the team’s roadmap, manage delivery, and balance hands-on technical leadership with people management to improve developer productivity and standardize engineering practices. The role requires strong delivery-management skills, architecture guidance, and collaboration with security, governance, and