Infrastructure Platform Manager

WME | William Morris Endeavor•Beverly Hills, CA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

WME is seeking an Infrastructure Platform Manager to lead hands-on delivery of infrastructure and operations outcomes through Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, and DevSecOps practices. The role involves building and running a secure, repeatable, self-service infrastructure platform that enables teams to deliver faster with strong guardrails. This is a deeply technical, delivery-oriented management role requiring the ability to set direction and actively participate in technical work. The position requires close collaboration across infrastructure, security, and application teams to establish clear standards and controls aligned with best practices (e.g., CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF) while reducing friction in daily delivery. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience building and operating infrastructure platforms in cloud and hybrid environments, and is proficient in modern automation patterns including Terraform/OpenTofu, GitHub Actions and/or Spacelift, policy-as-code, secrets management, and end-to-end pipeline governance. This role will significantly impact the reliability, security posture, and delivery velocity of WME’s technology platform. The role reports to WME’s Sr. Global Director of Infrastructure and Enterprise Solutions.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
2+ years leading engineers (formal people management or clear technical leadership with delivery ownership).
Strong hands-on expertise with Terraform and/or OpenTofu in production, including modules, remote state/state locking, workspaces, environment strategy, and drift detection.
Hands-on experience building CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions and/or Spacelift, including PR gates, approvals, release tagging, and environment promotion (Dev → Test → Prod).
Demonstrated ability to establish engineering standards and platform controls, and to drive adoption through clear documentation, enablement, and stakeholder management.
Working knowledge of DevSecOps practices and tools (policy-as-code, secrets management, IaC security scanning, least-privilege access, auditability) aligned to frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks and NIST CSF.
Experience owning operations and reliability for production platforms, including observability, incident/problem management, and continuous improvement (SLOs/SLIs preferred).
Self-directed, curious, and addicted to solving hard problems.

Responsibilities

Lead hands-on execution for the infrastructure platform backlog, balancing reliability, security, and developer experience.
Manage, mentor, and grow engineers while remaining technically engaged in design reviews, pull requests, and incident/problem management.
Own module patterns, naming/tagging conventions, state strategy, environment promotion, and reusable blueprints for Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu).
Establish contribution rules, versioning, testing, documentation, and reference implementations for safe self-service provisioning at scale.
Design and operate CI/CD platform standards for lint/validate/plan/apply, approvals, change promotion, and release management using GitHub Actions and/or Spacelift.
Implement guardrails such as branch protection, required reviews, artifact integrity, and environment isolation for repeatable, auditable delivery.
Embed security into the delivery system: secrets management, RBAC, policy-as-code, SAST/DAST and IaC scanning, dependency hygiene, and continuous compliance evidence.
Partner with security teams to translate frameworks (CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF) into practical platform controls and automated checks.
Own operational outcomes for the infrastructure platform, including observability (metrics/logs/traces), runbooks, incident response, problem management, and continuous improvement.
Implement drift detection, automated remediation where appropriate, and operational patterns that reduce toil and improve mean-time-to-recovery.
Establish platform documentation, reference architectures, and operational playbooks.
Drive adoption through training and office hours, and ensure platform changes are traceable, measurable, and aligned to agreed controls and risk posture.