Senior Manager, Platform Engineering

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Manager, Platform Engineering to lead two core pillars for the SolarWinds Observability Platform:Developer Experience (DevEx) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).You'll guide a team that builds internal developer platforms, improves CI/CD and testing workflows, and ensures our cloud-native services remain reliable, scalable, and performant. This is a hands-on leadership role with strong ownership, high visibility, and impact across global engineering teams.

What You'll Do

• Platform Engineering & DevEx
• Lead a team focused on improving developer workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and test automation.
• Build tools, templates, and automation that make development easier, faster, and more consistent.
• Drive adoption of best practices that improve engineering productivity and reduce friction.
• Track and improve DevEx metrics such as deployment frequency, build times, and MTTR.
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Lead SREs responsible for uptime, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Implement SRE fundamentals: SLOs, proactive alerting, incident response, capacity and cost management.
• Strengthen observability, monitoring, and deployment reliability across Kubernetes-based services.
• Guide architectural decisions across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps workflows.
• Partner with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to align platform initiatives with business needs.
• Promote strong engineering standards, documentation, and technical ownership.

Must Have:

• 10+ years in SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure.
• 5+ years managing engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AWS/Azure, CI/CD, Terraform, and GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux).
• Solid understanding of SRE practices (SLOs, incident management, capacity, cost).
• Experience improving developer experience, workflows, or internal platforms.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence across global teams.
• Experience with internal developer portals (e.g., Backstage).
• Background in distributed systems or SaaS platforms.
• Programming experience in Go, Java, or Python.