Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering
- Countries
- USA
- Job Types
- software & tech
- Experience
- managers
- Organization Types
- robotics, startups, logistics & supply chain
- Location
- New York City - San Francisco
- Posted Date
- Company
- Altana
- Salary
- USD240,000.0 - USD280,000.0 annual
AI Summary
Job Description
Lead a team of cloud engineers to own and operate regulated and sovereign environments, including FedRAMP. Standardize environment builds into a repeatable blueprint, ensure technical decisions are sound, and manage operational aspects like SLAs, cost, and incident response. Coach and grow the engineering team, manage performance, and oversee hiring.
Hard Requirements
- Background in SRE or platform engineering leadership
- Experience managing engineers directly
- 8+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure in production
- Direct experience delivering into US federal or highly regulated government environments (e.g., FedRAMP)
- Production experience with AWS and/or Azure
- Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar)
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience designing tooling for air-gapped and compliance-heavy infrastructure
- Track record of establishing operational practice (runbooks, on-call, documentation, planning)
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
Soft Requirements
- Strong sense of shared ownership
- Collaborative disposition
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to negotiate dependencies and priorities
- Experience leading engineers across distant time zones