Platform Engineering Manager

As the Platform Engineering Manager, you will lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining the core platforms and infrastructure that power our applications. You’ll partner closely with software engineers, DevOps, and security teams to ensure our systems are reliable, performant, secure, and easy to use. This role blends technical leadership, people management, and strategic planning to deliver a world-class developer experience and infrastructure foundation.Key Responsibilities: Leadership & StrategyLead and grow a high-performing platform engineering team through mentorship, clear goals, and career development.Define and execute the platform strategy to support scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient infrastructure.Partner with engineering leadership to align platform initiatives with product and business goals.Technical OwnershipOversee design and implementation of cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.Ensure platform reliability through observability, monitoring, and incident management best practices.Drive automation, infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) adoption.Collaborate with security and compliance teams to maintain a secure and compliant platform environment.Developer EnablementBuild and maintain internal tools, APIs, and environments that empower development teams.Advocate for best practices in scalability, performance, and cost optimization.Reduce friction in software delivery through improved developer experience and platform usability.Operational ExcellenceDefine SLAs/SLOs for platform services and ensure uptime and reliability targets are met.Manage platform budgets, optimize cloud costs, and forecast capacity needs.Lead postmortems and continuous improvement initiatives following incidents or outages.QualificationsEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.Experience:7+ years of software/infrastructure engineering experience.2–4+ years of people management or technical leadership experience.Proven success managing cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).Technical Skills:Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.).Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).Familiarity with microservices architectures, networking, and cloud security practices.Soft Skills:Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.Strategic thinking with a bias for action and automation.Empathy-driven leadership with a focus on developer productivity and experience.About Kawan Lama GroupEstablished in 1955, Kawan Lama Group is a multi-sector group of companies who are constantly innovating for improving the quality of lives. Manages 28 brand portfolios operating in six different sectors: Commercial & Industrial, Consumer Retail, Food & Beverages, Property & Hospitality, Manufacturing & Engineering, and Commercial Technology. Aiming to be more than family business - but beyond that, we are business for families, we carry the mission to bring values for betterment of lives through business development and continuous growth.