Senior Manager Platform Engineering

About the Role

IAT is seeking a Senior Manager of Platform Engineering to help develop and execute the company's Infrastructure Vision. This leadership role involves ensuring a secure and resilient infrastructure, establishing and maintaining the infrastructure strategy roadmap, and ensuring the successful implementation of both business-led and infrastructure strategy projects. Additionally, the Senior Manager is responsible for ensuring that the Infrastructure Organization has strong financial management practices in place including forecasting, expense management and financial analysis.

This leadership role oversees the infrastructure engineering and architecture teams, driving the delivery and operational hand-off of essential infrastructure technologies. These include cloud services, compute and backup services, desktop technologies, network services, unified communications, infrastructure monitoring, disaster recovery, and cyber resiliency.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Infrastructure Leadership:

• Develop and support the infrastructure strategy and roadmap to ensure IAT’s systems are highly available, manageable, and secure.
• Guide the organization and delivery team in executing the strategy effectively.

Technology Oversight and Innovation:

• Oversee the evaluation, selection, and implementation of infrastructure technologies that ensure the organization can effectively support and manage new technologies at a cost-effective scale.
• Manage the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies to identify and implement solutions that drive significant business impact and value.

Security And Compliance:

• Collaborate with the security team to ensure infrastructure architectures follow security policies, including Zero Trust.
• Regularly perform joint security architecture reviews with the security team to identify and resolve current infrastructure security risks.

Team/Organizational Leadership:

• Focus on Organizational Development through enhancing the organization's effectiveness through the continuous refinement of its strategies, structures, and operational processes.
• Provides leadership through organizational change management, staff development, team building, and fostering a motivated and engaged workforce.
• Building and leading a high-performing, diverse engineering team comprising of internal and external expertise.
• Foster a customer-centric mindset, prioritizing customer needs and building long-term, trust-based relationships.

Key Skills/Competency

• Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure Strategy
• Cloud Services
• Cyber Security
• Disaster Recovery
• Network Services
• Team Leadership
• Financial Management
• Risk Assessment
• IT Architecture