Manager Information Technology

Floor & Decor • Atlanta, GA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Floor & Decor is building a dedicated Application Platforms team to provide software development teams with capabilities to build, deploy, and run applications reliably and securely. As the founding leader, the Manager will set the platform strategy, hire and develop engineers, and build the first generation of services. This is a player-coach role: the manager will initially work hands-on designing pipelines, configuring tooling, and solving problems while establishing the organization’s charter, technology choices, operating model, and culture.

The team will develop five platform functions in phases. The initial foundation includes CI/CD tooling and shared pipeline services, pipeline review, and developer tools such as IDEs, testing frameworks, spec-driven development tooling, application frameworks, and security scanning. The next phase adds observability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response tooling. As the team grows, it will take on runtime services, primarily containers orchestrated on Kubernetes, and integration capabilities such as API management, MCP management, messaging, streaming, SFTP, and ETL.

The position is based at Floor & Decor’s Store Support Center in Atlanta and is in-office three days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday); it is not remote. Limited air and car travel is required. The employee may occasionally encounter a warehouse environment and moving vehicles; noise is typically quiet to moderate. The work is sedentary, involving sitting most of the time with occasional brief walking or standing and the ability to exert 10–20 pounds of force occasionally.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE.
• At least 3 years leading engineers or technical teams.
• Recent hands-on experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as Jenkins, GitHub, or Argo, and understanding of how delivery controls support compliance.
• Strong grasp of developer tooling and engineering practices, including testing frameworks, application frameworks, and security scanning in the pipeline.
• Working knowledge of observability practices and tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, or OpsGenie.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based runtimes.
• Familiarity with integration patterns and technologies such as APIs, messaging, and streaming.
• Demonstrated ability to build a team from a small base, set priorities, and deliver with limited resources.
• Strong communication skills and credibility with engineers and senior stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a SOX-regulated environment, working directly with audit teams.
• Cloud experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience with platform-as-a-product practices and developer experience metrics.
• Familiarity with MCP and AI-assisted development tooling.
• Retail or multi-channel commerce experience.
• Experience managing vendors and tool budgets.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision, roadmap, and operating model for Application Platforms, treating the platform as a product and developers as customers.
• Design, build, and operate early CI/CD and developer tooling capabilities while the team is small.
• Recruit, hire, and develop a team of platform engineers, including coaching the associate engineer currently on the team.
• Sequence work across the five platform functions and make build, buy, and partner decisions as capacity grows.
• Partner with application development leaders to gather requirements and feedback and measure platform adoption and developer experience.
• Work with Internal Audit and Security to maintain SOX-compliant change and deployment controls without slowing delivery.
• Manage vendor and tool relationships, including licensing, renewals, and roadmap alignment.
• Define and track service levels, reliability targets, and costs for platform services.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Enterprise Architecture on standards and shared capabilities.
• Establish documentation, self-service patterns, and golden paths that reduce the load on the platform team.

Benefits

• Bonus opportunities and career advancement opportunities at every level.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Referral Bonus Program.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and other insurance plans, subject to eligibility criteria.
• Paid vacation and sick time for eligible associates.
• Paid holidays plus a personal holiday.
• Paid Volunteer Time Off starting on Day 1.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed