Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering

Your Responsibilities * Own the architecture and operation of our regulated and sovereign environments across AWS and Azure, along with the IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code), Kubernetes, and release tooling beneath them * Lead the standardization of environment builds into a repeatable blueprint, so the number of environments can grow without headcount growing with it * Make sure critical technical decisions in the domain are sound, through design review, RFCs, prototypes, and whiteboard sessions, and hold the quality bar on what the team ships * Stay close to the work with hands-on engineering of your own, usually operational tooling or greenfield projects * Work with our Security and Compliance team to embed secure-by-default patterns across your environments and make control evidence a routine output of how the team works * Keep accreditations healthy, with vulnerability remediation inside contractual SLA windows, current access reviews, and data-handling obligations met * Support critical infrastructure by maintaining high SLAs, using progressive deployment strategies such as blue/green deploys, and redundancy with multi-region/HA environments * Represent the team in audits, assessments, and customer-facing technical conversations about security posture and data residency * Own a planning process that produces realistic commitments, and give implementation, commercial, and customer teams go-live dates they can plan against * Build solid operational practice across your environments, covering runbooks, documentation, capacity planning, on-call coverage, and incident response, and take your own turn in the escalation rotation * Own the cost of the environments you run. Understand what drives it, report on it, and prioritize the controls that keep a growing fleet efficient * Translate accreditation and regulatory constraints into terms product and commercial teams can plan around * Build strong working relationships across Implementations, Security and Compliance, Developer Experience, and product engineering, and use them to negotiate dependencies and priorities * Lead, coach, and grow the engineers on your team, with full ownership of performance management, reviews, compensation input, and career development * Manage a distributed team spanning multiple globally distributed time zones * Assess team structure and coverage against what the domain needs, act as hiring manager for your open roles, and work with recruiting to build a pipeline and close candidates## About You * Background in SRE or platform engineering leadership * Experience managing engineers directly, with full ownership of performance, growth, and hiring, and ready to lead through other leads as the group grows * 8+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure in production, including time owning an environment end to end * Direct experience delivering into US federal or other highly regulated government environments, such as FedRAMP or an equivalent compliance-heavy program, and a working understanding of how accreditation shapes engineering decisions * Production experience building and operating environments in AWS and/or Azure * Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar, and hands-on Kubernetes experience including cluster management and operational maintenance * Strong software engineering fundamentals. You lead from the front on technical judgment, not just from the org chart * Experience designing tooling and patterns that work in air-gapped and compliance-heavy infrastructure * A track record of establishing operational practice on a team, including runbooks, on-call, documentation, and planning discipline, without slowing delivery down to do it * Experience leading engineers across distant time zones, and the deliberate written communication that requires * Strong sense of shared ownership, a collaborative disposition, and excellent written and verbal comm