Senior Engineering Manager, Platform & DevSecOps
We require people to be on-site, 4 days/week (Mon - Fri) at our Denver (Cherry Creek) office.
The Opportunity
We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager with deep Platform and DevSecOps expertise to lead a team building secure, reliable, and developer-friendly platform capabilities. You’ll own the strategy, people leadership (including managing tech leads), roadmap execution, and governance across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, containers/Kubernetes, observability, cost, and security-by-default practices. Your responsibilities includedelivering at scale, partnering with Product, Security, and Data to create paved roads that accelerate the entire engineering org.
Responsibilities
People, Org & Leadership
Build and lead a Platform/DevSecOps team; hire, coach, develop, and retain top talent.
Establish career ladders, growth plans, and succession planning; run healthy on-call rotations and capacity planning.
Foster a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous improvement (blameless postmortems, strategic retention).
Strategy, Roadmap & Stakeholders
Own the platform strategy and multi-quarter roadmap; define OKRs that balance developer velocity, reliability, security, and cost.
Translate business goals into measurable outcomes; set and track success metrics (change failure rate, MTTR/MTTD, lead time).
Partner with Product, Security, Data, and Application leaders to define interfaces, SLAs/SLOs, and shared accountability.
Platform Architecture & Governance
Set technical direction for build/release, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes/EKS runtime, and observability.
Establish guardrails (golden paths, templates, policy-as-code, org standards) to enable autonomy with compliance.
Drive cost, performance, and availability improvements; own platform budgets/forecasts and FinOps practices.
DevOps & Security
Standardize CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins or similar), artifact signing/SBOM, progressive delivery (blue-green/canary).
Enforce security-by-design: SCA/SAST/DAST in pipelines, secrets management, least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, runtime hardening.
Lead remediation SLAs with Security; maintain audit-ready evidence for enterprise standards and regulations.
Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability
Operate secure cloud platforms (AWS) via IaC (Terraform/Pulumi) with drift detection and change controls.
Define and enforce SLOs/error budgets; lead incident response for platform services, drive post-incident actions to closure.
Ensure multi-region resiliency where required; own backup/restore strategies and disaster recovery readiness.
Communication, Documentation & Change Management
Publish clear reference architectures, runbooks, and standards; keep documentation current and discoverable.
Communicate priorities, trade-offs, and status to execs and cross-functional partners; influence with data.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years total experience in Platform/SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure, including 4+ years leading engineers with at least 2+ years managing tech leads or multiple teams.
Proven track record delivering secure, reliable, cross-team platforms serving many product squads.
Strong Linux, networking, and troubleshooting fundamentals.
Proficiency in Python/Bash; automation around CI/CD, infra, and operations.
Deep AWS experience (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/DocumentDB/DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, security groups) and Kubernetes in AWS.
IaC expertise (Terraform preferred; Pulumi a plus) with sound practices (modularity, versioning, policy checks, drift detection).
Observability at scale (logs/metrics/traces, alerting design, SLOs) and incident management/command skills.
Security best practices across build/deploy/runtime; RBAC/ABAC and identity standards (OAuth, SAML, OIDC); secrets management.
Preferred:
AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional and/or AWS Solutions Architect (Assoc/Pro).
Exposure to data platforms (e.g., Databricks), streaming/edge workloads, or hybrid/private networking patterns.
Vendor and budget management; contract evaluation and TCO/ROI analysis.