Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

SCAN Group; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Wellness program

PTO

Holidays and floating holiday

401(k) with employer match

Employee recognition program

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

SCAN Group is seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering to lead the hybrid infrastructure and platform engineering org spanning on-prem data centers, Azure/AWS cloud, DevOps, SRE, automation, and observability. This role combines people leadership, technical leadership, and TPM while driving modernization, cloud adoption, and platform reliability.

You will lead teams across Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, and SRE, mentor engineers, and establish a culture of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 12-18+ years of progressive technology experience across infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership or management.
• Preferred certifications in Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, VMware, Terraform, ITIL, or TPM/PM.
• Strong Technical Program Management with roadmap, planning, governance and exec reporting.
• Hands-on data center ops including servers, SAN/storage, networking, and lifecycle management.
• Strong Azure cloud platform expertise (App Services, Function Apps, Azure SQL, Storage/Blob, Entra ID, Azure Monitor).
• Deep understanding of DevOps/SRE: reliability, incident mgmt, SLIs/SLOs, automation, toil reduction.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes/AKS/EKS, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
• Strong observability across metrics/logs/traces with Grafana, Datadog, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch.
• Hands-on AI/ML in operations: anomaly detection, predictive scaling, automated root-cause analysis.
• Experience with DR/BCP, high availability, RTO/RPO, backup and recovery, failover, DR testing.
• Security & compliance: NIST, CIS, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001.
• People-management, vendor mgmt, budgeting, capacity planning, and exec communication.
• Leadership: develop managers and align teams to goals.
• Problem solving, strategic mindset, and strong cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, and SRE teams and mentoring.
• Provide leadership across a hybrid on-prem and cloud environment.
• Drive modernization, migrations across data centers and cloud.
• Establish IAM, IaC, CI/CD, automation, and observability practices.
• Lead AIOps adoption for reliability and proactive incident response.
• Own platform availability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Drive DR/BCP strategy, backup, resiliency testing and recovery.
• Lead programs from strategy to execution with roadmaps and milestones.
• Coordinate initiatives across Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Architecture, Apps, vendors, stakeholders.
• Communicate program status and risks to leadership.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud platforms

DevOps

SRE

Technical Program Management

Leadership

Azure cloud platform

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Observability

AI/ML in operations

Security & Compliance

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Grafana

Datadog

Azure Monitor

CloudWatch

Entra ID

Terraform

Job description

Founded in 1977 as the Senior Care Action Network, SCAN began with a simple but radical idea: that older adults deserve to stay healthy and independent. That belief was championed by a group of community activists we still honor today as the "12 Angry Seniors." Their mission continues to guide everything we do.

Today, SCAN is a nonprofit health organization serving more than 500,000 people across Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington, with over $8 billion in annual revenue. With nearly five decades of experience, we have built a distinctive, values-driven platform dedicated to improving care for older adults.

Our work spans Medicare Advantage, fully integrated care models, primary care, care for the most medically and socially complex populations, and next-generation care delivery models. Across all of this, we are united by a shared commitment: combining compassion with discipline, innovation with stewardship, and growth with integrity.

At SCAN, we believe scale should strengthen-not dilute-our mission. We are building the future of care for older adults, grounded in purpose, accountability, and respect for the people and communities we serve.

The Job

The Senior Manager, Platform Engineering leads and manages the hybrid infrastructure and platform engineering organization spanning on-premises data centers, Azure/AWS cloud, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), automation, and observability. This role combines people leadership, technical leadership, and Technical Program Management (TPM) while driving infrastructure modernization, cloud adoption, platform reliability, automation, and complex cross-functional technology initiatives.

You Will

• Lead and develop teams responsible for Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud, DevOps, and SRE, including mentoring engineers and technical leads and establishing a culture of accountability, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership across a hybrid environment, including on-premises data centers and public cloud platforms.
• Drive infrastructure and platform modernization, including data center, server, storage, virtualization, application, and cloud migrations.
• Establish and mature DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, automation, and observability practices.
• Lead AIOps adoption to improve reliability using ML-driven anomaly detection, predictive capacity planning, and intelligent incident response.
• Own platform availability, reliability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Lead DR/BCP strategy, backup and recovery, resiliency planning, and disaster recovery testing.
• Drive technical programs from strategy through execution, including roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, and deliverables.
• Coordinate initiatives across Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Architecture, Application Development, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Provide clear communication to leadership on program status, operational health, risks, dependencies, and strategic priorities.
• We seek Rebels who are curious about AI and its power to transform how we operate and serve our members.
• Actively support the achievement of SCAN's Vision and Goals.
• Other duties as assigned.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 12-18+ years of progressive technology experience, with a strong background across infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership or management experience.
• Relevant certifications in Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, VMware, Terraform, ITIL, or Technical Project/Program Management are preferred.
• Strong Technical Program Management experience, including roadmap development, project and program planning, cross-functional delivery, dependency management, risk management, stakeholder communication, governance, and executive reporting.
• Hands-on technical foundation in data center operations, including physical and virtual servers, VMware, SAN/storage, networking, switches, compute, and hardware lifecycle management.
• Strong hands-on expertise with the Azure cloud platform, including App Services, Function Apps, Azure SQL, Storage/Blob, Entra ID, Azure Monitor, and cloud governance.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and SRE principles, including reliability engineering, incident management, SLIs/SLOs, automation, and reduction of operational toil.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes/AKS/EKS, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
• Strong observability experience across metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting, using platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, or similar.
• Hands-on experience applying AI/ML to operations, including anomaly detection, event correlation, predictive scaling, and automated root-cause analysis.
• Experience with DR/BCP, high availability, resiliency, RTO/RPO, backup and recovery, failover, and disaster recovery testing.
• Strong understanding of networking, identity and access management, authentication, security controls, secrets management, infrastructure security best practices, and security and compliance frameworks such as NIST, CIS, SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.
• Strong people-management and communication skills, with experience in hiring, mentoring, coaching, performance management, developing technical talent, vendor management, technology evaluations, resource and capacity planning, budgeting, infrastructure lifecycle management, and working with engineers, architects, security teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Leadership - Develops managers and aligns teams to achieve departmental goals
• Problem Solving - Makes sound decisions in ambiguous, high-risk situations with cross-functional or departmental impact
• Strategic Mindset - Formulates departmental strategies and aligns managers, resources, and initiatives to organizational goals
• Communication - Influences across teams, communicates complex decisions, and builds alignment among managers and stakeholders

What's in it for you?

• Base salary range: $150,000 to $215,975annually
• An annual employee bonus program
• Robust Wellness Program
• Generous paid-time-off (PTO)
• 11 paid holidays per year, 1 floating holiday, birthday off, and 2 volunteer days
• Excellent 401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with employer match
• Robust employee recognition program
• Tuition reimbursement
• An opportunity to become part of a team that makes a difference to our members and our community every day!

At SCAN we believe that it is our business to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects our community through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more.

SCAN is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affinitive Action workplace. Individuals seeking employment will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by law. A background check is required.

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