Platform Acceleration Manager

Boeing•Seattle, WA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Boeing Company is looking for a Platform Acceleration Manager to join the team in Seattle, WA; North Charleston, SC; Chicago, IL; El Segundo, CA; Mesa, AZ; San Diego, CA; Berkeley, MO; Hazelwood, MO. The Platform Acceleration Manager will lead the Platform Acceleration team: a cross-functional rapid-innovation team responsible for designing, prototyping, and productizing the enterprise runtime platform (golden cluster profiles, lifecycle automation, and runtime security baselines). You will own the Platform Acceleration (PA) roadmap, coordinate Proof of Concept (PoC) to production delivery, and partner with Cloud Strategy, Cloud Architecture, Foundations, Developer Experience (DevEx), and Runtime Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure innovations are validated, documented, and handed off for long-term operation. This is a people-and-program leadership role with an expectation of active, hands-on technical contribution to prototypes, automation, and critical delivery artifacts.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering, SRE, and/or related roles
5+ years of experience with Kubernetes at scale (Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)/ Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)/ Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)), cluster lifecycle automation, and runtime tooling
5+ years of experience with IaC (Terraform, Terraform modules, Helm, operators), admission controllers (Open Policy Agent (OPA)/Gatekeeper or webhooks), and policy-as-code practices
3+ years in a technical leadership and/or people management role
Experience contributing code, IaC, and/or design artifacts
Experience taking prototypes/PoCs to production-grade solutions and enabling downstream teams to operate them
Experience working cross-functionally with architecture, security, operations, and DevEx teams
Experience with prioritization, stakeholder management, release gating, and risk mitigation

Nice To Haves

Experience presenting technical designs and tradeoffs to engineering and business leadership
Experience building or operating global multi-cluster fleets or enterprise runtime platforms
Experience with Cluster Application Programming Interface (API), GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), service meshes, observability (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), and chaos engineering
Experience with regulatory and compliance requirements relevant to enterprise cloud platforms
Experience with software development in Go, Python, and/or similar languages
Experience authoring reusable IaC modules

Responsibilities

Own and prioritize the Platform Acceleration roadmap for the enterprise runtime product (golden profiles, lifecycle automation, admission control, runtime security)
Lead, coach, and grow a team of platform engineers, automation engineers, and runtime security specialists
Drive PoC initiatives: define success criteria, validate performance and security, and convert validated PoCs into production-ready reference implementations; actively contribute technically to PoCs and reference builds
Define and enforce operability acceptance criteria and formal handoff processes (performance baselines, monitoring/alerts, upgrade & rollback plans, runbooks)
Deliver reusable, production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC), operators, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that downstream teams (Foundations, DevEx, Runtime SRE) adopt — including authoring or reviewing critical modules
Lead rapid-response cross-team efforts to diagnose and remediate systemic platform problems; participate hands-on in complex troubleshooting as required
Partner with Cloud Strategy and Cloud Architecture to align innovations to enterprise direction and ensure reference implementations meet architecture and compliance expectations
Establish versioning, deprecation, and change-management practices for runtime artifacts; ensure downstream teams can safely upgrade and adopt new capabilities
Represent the PA team in leadership forums, architecture reviews, and incident post-mortems where platform design changes are required
Track and report success metrics for adoption, operability, and risk reduction; iterate the roadmap based on telemetry and stakeholder feedback