Platform Engineering Manager - Internal Developer Platform

Optimum Communications Inc.; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 134,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum Communications Inc. in Plano, TX, seeks a Manager of Infrastructure Platform Engineering to lead the strategy, engineering, and operations of an internal developer platform that delivers compute, storage, containers, and infrastructure services as a product.

You will guide Terraform and Ansible IaC tooling, Kubernetes platform evolution, CI/CD for infrastructure, and self‑service portals, while building a high‑performing team of platform and DevOps engineers focused on reliability,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field required.
• 8+ years in software/platform engineering or cloud infrastructure.
• 3+ years of people leadership managing software/platform teams.
• Experience building internal developer platforms at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, roadmap, and engineering for internal developer platform.
• Define platform-as-a-product operating model and SLAs.
• Build and maintain IaC tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
• Oversee Kubernetes platforms, namespace and security baselines.
• Drive self-service portals, APIs, and developer tooling.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Equivalent experience considered

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Policy as code

Job description

Optimum Communications Inc. in Plano, TX, seeks a Manager of Infrastructure Platform Engineering to lead the strategy, engineering, and operations of an internal developer platform that delivers compute, storage, containers, and infrastructure services as a product.

You will guide Terraform and Ansible IaC tooling, Kubernetes platform evolution, CI/CD for infrastructure, and self‑service portals, while building a high‑performing team of platform and DevOps engineers focused on reliability,