Senior Platform Engineering Leader, Cloud Infra & DevOps

Opala; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

AD&D

EAP

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

PTO 16 days

8 paid holidays

Fully paid holiday closure

401k

Stock options

Annual bonus

Job summary

Opala is seeking a hands-on Senior Manager of Platform Engineering to lead our cloud infrastructure and corporate IT initiatives. This role focuses on scaling a data-centric healthcare SaaS platform while maintaining secure, compliant operations.

You will design architectures, write infrastructure as code (Terraform), mentor teams, and partner with security, engineering, data, and customer success to align IT with business goals and deliver reliable services at scale in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' progressively responsible experience in an infrastructure environment.
• 5+ years leading and building cloud infrastructure and IT operations in a SaaS/data product setting (Azure preferred).
• 2+ years' experience at early-stage startups; comfortable with ambiguity and risk.
• Strong hands-on expertise with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred).
• Deep understanding of architectures that support data platforms and service-oriented systems.
• Strong ability to drive decisions quickly, balancing delivery needs with engineering maturity.
• Experience supporting security and compliance requirements while maintaining productivity.
• Mentoring and developing technical team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of cloud infrastructure and corporate IT operations with cross-functional teams.
• Architect scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions for the data platform and services ecosystem.
• Write infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and guide best practices for automation and configuration management.
• Grow observability and monitoring to support products and customers.
• Design disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Ensure reliability while scaling SaaS services with business growth.
• Collaborate with leadership to align IT strategy with organizational goals.
• Promote an agile DevOps culture and seamless developer experience.
• Establish and refine infrastructure and IT best practices, tools, and processes.
• Act as hands-on leader, mentoring and coaching team members.

Skills

Cloud leadership

DevOps champion

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

Azure

Job description

Opala is seeking a hands-on Senior Manager of Platform Engineering to lead our cloud infrastructure and corporate IT initiatives. This role focuses on scaling a data-centric healthcare SaaS platform while maintaining secure, compliant operations.

You will design architectures, write infrastructure as code (Terraform), mentor teams, and partner with security, engineering, data, and customer success to align IT with business goals and deliver reliable services at scale in a fast-moving startup.