About the Role We re looking for a Senior Manager Platform Engineering to lead two core pillars for the SolarWinds Observability Platform Developer Experience DevEx and Site Reliability Engineering SRE You ll guide a team that builds internal developer platforms improves CI CD and testing workflows and ensures our cloud-native services remain reliable scalable and performant This is a hands-on leadership role with solid ownership high visibility and impact across global engineering teams What You ll Do Platform Engineering DevEx Lead a team focused on improving developer workflows CI CD pipelines and test automation Build tools templates and automation that make development easier faster and more consistent Drive adoption of best practices that improve engineering productivity and reduce friction Track and improve DevEx metrics such as deployment frequency build times and MTTR Site Reliability Engineering Lead SREs responsible for uptime scalability performance and operational excellence Implement SRE fundamentals SLOs proactive alerting incident response capacity and cost management Strengthen observability monitoring and deployment reliability across Kubernetes-based services Guide architectural decisions across AWS Azure Kubernetes Terraform and GitOps workflows Partner with engineering product and infrastructure teams to align platform initiatives with business needs Promote strong engineering standards documentation and technical ownership Must Have 10 years in SRE Platform Engineering DevOps or Cloud Infrastructure 5 years managing engineering teams Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes AWS Azure CI CD Terraform and GitOps ArgoCD Flux Solid understanding of SRE practices SLOs incident management capacity cost Experience improving developer experience workflows or internal platforms Excellent communication and ability to influence across global teams Experience with internal developer portals e g Backstage Background in distributed systems or SaaS platforms Programming experience in Go Java or Python