Senior Engineering Leader – Cloud-Native Apps & Reliability

Campus; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Employee assistance program

Life insurance/AD&D/disability

FSA or HSA

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Illumia is seeking a Senior Manager to lead a high-performing team of Developers and QA Engineers. You will own the production health of mission-critical applications, drive modern engineering practices, and ensure reliability across cloud-native platforms.

The role emphasizes incident management, production ownership, and collaboration with product, architecture, and deployment teams. A strong background in .NET, AWS, and system reliability is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in software development and platform engineering.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams.
• Strong technical expertise in .NET (C#) and distributed system architectures.
• Experience building and operating applications in AWS cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, production support, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Experience designing and supporting API-driven and integration-heavy systems.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of scalable services and applications built with .NET (C#) and deployed in AWS environments.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices across cloud-native architectures, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Ensure high standards of code quality, system performance, and operational reliability.
• Own production health, uptime, and system reliability for supported applications.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.
• Drive improvements in monitoring, alerting, and observability across systems.
• Guide system design and technical decisions aligned with architectural standards.
• Strengthen engineering ownership of system quality, reliability, and production outcomes.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to support deployments, integrations, and customer environments.
• Promote adoption of AI-assisted tools to improve engineering productivity, system quality, and operational efficiency.
• Ensure strong on-call practices and operational readiness across the team.

Skills

.NET/C#

Distributed systems

AWS cloud

Production support

Incident management

Leadership

API design

Stakeholder management

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

Illumia is seeking a Senior Manager to lead a high-performing team of Developers and QA Engineers. You will own the production health of mission-critical applications, drive modern engineering practices, and ensure reliability across cloud-native platforms.

The role emphasizes incident management, production ownership, and collaboration with product, architecture, and deployment teams. A strong background in .NET, AWS, and system reliability is required.