Senior Manager, Platform
About The Position
As Senior Manager, Platform, you will lead the team responsible for the design, operation, availability, and continuous improvement of HealthVerity’s internal cloud infrastructure and platform services. Your team manages the foundational platforms that power our data and application environments, primarily AWS and Databricks, ensuring they are reliable, performant and scalable. You will collaborate cross-functionally to implement best-in-class architecture and automation, enabling our systems to meet growing business demands. With a team composed primarily of in-office engineers in Philadelphia and several remote team members, you will drive strategic infrastructure initiatives, foster team development, and ensure our platforms are secure, available, observable and cost-efficient.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering.
- 3+ years of experience leading, managing, and motivating engineering teams, ideally in hybrid or distributed environments.
- Strong background in cloud-native infrastructure using AWS services (e.g., S3, EMR, Lambda, ECS, EventBridge).
- Deep understanding of Databricks, Spark, and scalable data pipeline architectures.
- Deep understanding of the optimization of cloud resources (FinOps best practices).
- Demonstrated ability to manage platform operations at scale while ensuring security, reliability, and compliance.
- Proven experience in platform observability, system performance optimization, and automation.
- Proven experience with availability & capacity management and planning.
Nice To Haves
- Proficient with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions).
- Coding ability in Python and SQL; familiarity with containerized and serverless architectures.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of platform, DevOps, and data infrastructure engineers
- Ensure reliability and performance of AWS and Databricks-based infrastructure
- Implement observability, SLOs, and automated incident response
- Define and drive infrastructure strategy for scale, security, and efficiency
- Standardize IaC practices using CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation
- Build internal developer tools and shared microservices
- Provide availability & capacity management over traditional server/network infrastructure within a 3rd party data center with the long term aim of optimizing data center usage.
- Own and optimize cloud infrastructure across compute, data, and orchestration layers
- Partner cross-functionally on architecture, compliance, and long-term planning
- Communicate effectively across all levels of the organization on Platform initiatives and internal customer requirements.
Benefits
- competitive base salary & annual bonus opportunity (for non-commissioned roles)
- health, dental, and vision coverage starting on day 1
- 401(k) plan
- equity program, with new hire equity grants beginning at the Director level and above.
- Remote workdays and 3 days a week of in-office collaboration for team members in the Philadelphia area.
- Generous PTO: Take time off as needed, targeted at 4 weeks per year, including vacation, personal and sick time
- paid parental leave
- 12 weeks paid leave for childbearing, surrogacy, and adoption; 6 weeks for non-childbearing parents.
- Comprehensive and individualized onboarding: mentorship program, departmental talks, and a library of resources are available beginning day 1 for each new team member to minimize the stress of starting a new job
- Professional development: biweekly 1:1s, hands-on leadership that is goal-and growth-oriented for each team member, and an annual budget to support professional development pursuits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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