Manager, Platform Engineering
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Manager, Platform Engineering leading the infrastructure team at KOHO for better financial services. Ensuring reliable production operations and developing cloud strategies for growth.
Responsibilities:
- Empower engineering teams to build, ship, and operate products faster and more reliably through world-class platform infrastructure.
- Lead critical infrastructure & reliability initiatives: Drive cloud infrastructure architecture, disaster recovery capabilities, high-availability systems design, and compliance-ready infrastructure for a regulated financial services environment.
- Build and lead a high-performing platform team: Manage a team of cloud infrastructure engineers through complex technical challenges while creating clear career growth paths and maintaining a culture of continuous learning and operational excellence.
- Own production operations & site reliability: Ensure exceptional availability and reliability of production systems through proactive monitoring, incident response, performance optimization, and cost efficiency.
- Enable security & regulatory compliance: Implement and maintain infrastructure for industry security standards and regulatory requirements while managing vulnerability remediation and access controls in partnership with our Cyber Security team.
- Drive platform strategy & innovation: Define the technical roadmap for cloud infrastructure, Cloud Infra CI/CD, container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, and developer infra tooling while leveraging AI and automation to reduce operational toil.
Requirements:
- 5+ years in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles with hands-on experience building and operating cloud infrastructure (AWS or equivalent, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Infra CI/CD) in production environments at scale
- Experience managing engineering teams (4-6+ people), with demonstrated success coaching engineers, managing performance, driving team delivery, and building inclusive high-trust team cultures
- Excel at taking high-level business objectives and translating them into actionable technical strategies
- Define technical roadmaps and improve team processes, then dive deep to unblock critical production issues or guide complex implementations
- Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, write clear documentation, and build strong cross-functional relationships
- Understand how infrastructure decisions cascade through developer velocity, product delivery, costs, security, and business outcomes.
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation & equity
- Generous vacation + Wellness days + Flex Days + holiday closure
- Remote-first environment + coworking support + yearly all hands retreat
- Access to coaching & growth programs
- Parental top-up & leave policies
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Power-up budgets for books, home office setup, phone & internet, AI tools, and professional development















