About this opportunity
Geniuslink lists this Manager Platform Engineering opportunity in northern, Kentucky. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
As the Manager, Platform Engineering, you will lead the team and own the systems, tooling, and processes that power our internal platform ensuring engineers can ship quickly, safely, and with confidence.
You will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of our environments across development, staging and production. You will work closely with product engineering, data, and leadership, contributing to company-level planning and decision‑making.
You will guide platform and infrastructure decisions while remaining hands‑on, continuously improving the foundations that support everything we build at Geniuslink.
What you'll do
Design, build, and operate a scalable cloud infrastructure (DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS) to support high availability and performance
Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and repeatable deployments across services
Implement and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform) to standardize environments across development, staging, and production and reduce drift
Build, operate, and improve observability systems (metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and profiling) to ensure visibility into system health, performance, and resource efficiency
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes; drive improvements to prevent recurrence
Partner with engineering teams to improve developer workflows, infrastructure, deployment strategies, and overall reliability, and with the CTO/Chief Architect to align platform capabilities with system design and architectural decisions
Establish and enforce best practices for platform, infrastructure, deployment, and operational excellence across teams, treating the platform as a product for internal users
Optimize infrastructure costs and resource utilization, making informed tradeoffs with performance, reliability, and development velocity
Proactively improve the security posture of our systems by embedding best practices into infrastructure, access controls, and deployment workflows
Lead, mentor, and grow a small team of platform engineers, while providing technical leadership and guidance to the broader engineering organization on platform, deployment, and reliability practices
Drive improvements to developer experience through better tooling, automation, and workflows, reducing operational toil and enabling faster delivery
Lead capacity planning, prioritization, and hiring for the platform function
Location
Remote: Our team has been fully remote since 2020. This is a remote position, and we are open to candidates worldwide. We have successfully worked with team members across the USA, Canada, South America, and Asia.
Core working hours should align with our existing team's PST/PDT (UTC-08) +/- 3 hours work day.
Our ideal candidate
5+ years working with public cloud infrastructure in a production environment (DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, or similar)
Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems and scalable infrastructure
Hands‑on experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform or similar)
Experience building and evolving CI/CD pipelines for reliable production systems
Strong understanding of observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing, and profiling) using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or similar
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, or similar)
Strong incident management, debugging, and root cause analysis skills
Ability to balance long‑term architecture with short‑term delivery needs
Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, and leadership, with the ability to contribute to planning and decision‑making discussions
Nice‑to‑have experience
Experience supporting .NET‑based systems in production
Familiarity with MongoDB and RabbitMQ performance and scaling considerations
Experience with cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency at scale
Experience with security best practices and compliance
Experience improving developer platforms, internal tooling, or developer workflows
Experience leading or mentoring engineers
Experience working in an EOS‑driven company or with OKRs
Additional Details
The salary range for this position is $165,000 – $195,000 USD, depending on experience, skills, and location. You will also be eligible for vacation days, sick days, volunteering days as well as additional perks.
This is an open and available net NEW position created due to growth.
Geniuslink is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and will consider requests for reasonable accommodation during the application and interview process.
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