Senior Platform Engineering Manager - Aws / Kubernetes

Large Media Enterprise looking to add a Senior Engineering Manager to the ranks to influence a large scale platform transformation. AWS / Kubernetes

We are an Enterprise Media Entertainment company going through a large scale platform transformation with the need for a Senior Engineering Leader to take control of a mature organization comprised of 30+ platform engineers with 4 direct reports.
Job Description:
The role will report to the Technology Director and will be tasked with managing and delivering world class cloud-based infrastructure services. As the face of Platform Engineering within the organization you will be responsible for creating a superior developer experience for our software engineering teams and providing tooling to support teams to implement modern DevOps practices.
Your profile:
You are a thought leader and influencer within the cloud Platform Engineering space
You have significant experience running modern, cloud-based infrastructure
You will have demonstrated experience building systems supporting DevOps principles
You will have deep experience in container-based infrastructure platforms
You will bring engineering direction and leadership to expand and influence outcomes
You are attentive to the needs of the people you provide services to and have a demonstrated capability managing systems hosting mission critical applications.
Responsibilities:

• Lead, inspire and develop our passionate and committed Platform and DevOps Engineers
• Foster a high performing and resilient Platform Engineering capability
• Continue to build and expand a culture of high quality DevOps practices
• Create and manage a best-in-class end-to-end application delivery, hosting and observability platform
• Establish a FinOps culture across all cloud consumers
• Contribute to the overall cybersecurity and improve overall cloud security posture

You will have:

• Proven success leading and developing high performing teams
• Proven success and experience on the tools and providing engineering direction, preferably from a Platform Engineering background
• Cloud experience with AWS & GCP cloud services using DevOps practices and managing ‘infrastructure as code’
• Sound financial management disciplines with budget management
• Experience with containerisation and cluster management
• Exposure managing complex environments with a high change tempo

This position is based in Sydney and we would like someone who can be with the team in person 3+ days a week.
Does this sound like the kind of role you've been looking for? Register your interest by applying or contacting me direct on josh@talentrealised.com.au or 0423461061