- Company Name
- Payplug
- Job Title
- Engineering Manager - Platform
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Engineering Manager – Platform
**Role Summary**
Lead a squad of 7 SRE/Infrastructure engineers in a high‑performance payment environment. Drive platform reliability, scalability, and security while managing the AWS‑to‑GCP migration, refactoring IaC, and enabling rapid delivery for cross‑functional teams. Provide technical vision, people coaching, and compliance oversight.
**Expectations**
- Deliver platform initiatives on time in line with quarterly commitments.
- Achieve and maintain defined SLA/SLO targets for service quality.
- Maintain PCI‑DSS compliance and participate in all relevant audits.
- Build a high‑growth culture focused on continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with architects, product managers, and other engineering leads to align technical strategy with business objectives.
**Key Responsibilities**
- **People Management & Coaching**: hire, mentor, and retain top SRE/Infra talent; develop career paths and performance plans.
- **Squad Delivery**: manage roadmap, sprint planning, and run/build/migration initiatives; remove impediments and promote agile practices.
- **Technical Leadership**: own design and implementation of robust, secure infrastructure on GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, and related toolsets.
- **Observability & Reliability**: configure Datadog, Prometheus, and other monitoring solutions; enforce SLOs/SLA and root‑cause analysis procedures.
- **IaC & Automation**: refactor and optimize Terraform, Ansible, Salt; streamline GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- **Compliance & Security**: ensure infrastructure meets PCI‑DSS and best‑practice standards; coordinate audit activities.
- **Strategic Collaboration**: partner with other Engineering Managers, Lead Developers, and Architects to maintain a coherent platform architecture.
**Required Skills**
- Leadership in technical teams (SRE, DevOps, Infra).
- Proficient in GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, OPA, Kyverno.
- IaC tools: Terraform, Ansible, Salt.
- Observability: Datadog, Prometheus.
- CI/CD: GitLab pipelines.
- Strong grasp of SRE principles (reliability, scalability, supervision, SLO/SLA).
- Project roadmap management and stakeholder communication.
- Agile process facilitation.
- Security best practices and compliance awareness.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
- Preferred certifications: GCP Professional Cloud Architect/Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or equivalent.
- SRE or DevOps certification is a plus.