Platform Engineering Manager (F/H)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 18, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 28, 2026.
Join our team as a Platform Engineering Manager, where you will lead and grow our platform team while maintaining a strong technical direction. You will be responsible for a team of three senior platform engineers and will focus on coaching, setting standards, owning the platform roadmap, and partnering with stakeholders. You will also own reliability, security, performance, and cost across both cloud and on-premise environments.
Missions
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of three confirmed/senior platform engineers, supporting their development through regular feedback, career conversations, and technical mentoring.
- Own the platform roadmap and technical vision, balancing reliability, security, cost, and delivery speed, and deliver infrastructure changes through automation while maintaining high availability.
- Partner with engineering, product, and security stakeholders to align priorities and facilitate change management, and communicate clearly through documentation, technical decisions, and customer-facing relationships.
Profil recherché
### **Required experience and skills****Leadership**
* Experience managing or leading engineers, ideally including senior / confirmed profiles, with a track record of growing people through mentoring and technical guidance
* Ability to set the technical bar and hold it, with the maturity that comes from significant production experience
* Strong communication skills for documentation writing, stakeholder alignment, and change management facilitation
**Technical foundation** (you should be credible and hands-on enough to lead this team)
* Significant production experience on AWS using container technologies and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform / Pulumi)
* Solid production experience with Kubernetes in on-premise / private cloud contexts (storage controller management, advanced networking, control plane management)
* Very strong networking knowledge (all OSI layers, TLS, DNS, DHCP, routing)
* Linux system knowledge, including containers and troubleshooting
* Programming and code architecture skills
* Test-Driven Development practices and a very good understanding of Domain-Driven Design
* Production experience in release management including CI systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and CD systems (e.g. ArgoCD, Spinnaker)
* Production experience in monitoring, alerting, and observability implementation, performance troubleshooting, and reliability engineering
* Production experience in database management (handling migrations, introducing breaking changes in data schemas without downtime, handling backup and restoration)
* Baseline knowledge of security compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2)
* Working with AI agents
**Additional skills and experience we value**
* Packaging code with Nix and configuring operating systems with NixOS / nix-darwin
* Working with airgapped environments (environments disconnected from the internet)
* Experience with zero-trust systems
* Knowledge of advanced security compliance frameworks (IGI 901, FedRAMP)
* Experience with AI agent factories