Senior Engineering Manager, Platform & DevSecOps

LG Ad Solutions•Denver, CO

22d•Onsite

About The Position

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 include delivering at scale, partnering with Product, Security, and Data to create paved roads that accelerate the entire engineering org.

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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.