[Remote] Manager, Platform Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. iFIT develops a holistic health and fitness platform that integrates physical fitness, mental health, nutrition, and active recovery through proprietary adaptive software. The Tech Lead/Sr. Manager of Platform Engineering will lead platform strategy, cloud infrastructure, self-service tooling, AI innovation, reliability, incident response, and engineering team operations.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive technical roadmap across platform engineering, ensuring work is sequenced and aligned to leadership priorities
• Make the platform AI-native, investing heavily in modern AI-powered dev workflows
• Own cloud infrastructure at production scale. Write and maintain Terraform across our AWS footprint. Own the CI/CD template layer inherited by all service teams
• Own IAM at scale - Maintain and extend roles, policies, and permission boundaries across hundreds of services. Automate enforcement, not just review
• Eliminate toil through automation and self-service - Build the modules and tooling that allow teams to stand up services, manage deployments, and resolve issues without routing through a platform engineer
• Set and uphold expectations for delivery, reliability, and team accountability
• Maintain platform health and delivery outcomes, including ownership of incident response and on-call management
• Ensure platform systems are reliable, scalable, and meeting business needs
• Own platform roadmap and execution plans
• Lead planning cycles and ensure alignment across teams
• Balance new initiatives with operational stability and ongoing work
• Own hiring, performance management, and team development
• Ensure clear ownership and accountability across platform domains
• Track delivery against roadmap commitments
• Resolve blockers and manage cross-team dependencies
• Ensure consistent execution across teams
• Partner with AI, Product, Security, IT, and Finance stakeholders
• Communicate priorities, trade-offs, and progress clearly
• Ensure uptime, reliability, and incident management standards are met
• Drive consistency in operational practices across teams
• Own incident response and escalation when needed
• Partner with Finance on cost visibility and budgeting
• Oversee vendor relationships and platform-related spend

Skills

• 5-7 years of experience in platform engineering, including DevOps, Infrastructure, Dev Tools etc in production environments
• Expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS EKS, GCP GKE, or Azure AKS) and associated networking, storage, and IAM primitives
• Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language for operator development and infrastructure tooling
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform) and Git workflows
• Ability to operate autonomously, make sound technical judgments, and drive projects from concept through production
• Demonstrated experience on platform or infrastructure engineering teams at scale, including ownership of reliability, scalability, and delivery outcomes
• Ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams across Product and Engineering
• Experience developing and automating workflows with Claude Code, Codex etc
• Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including cost management and vendor oversight
• Familiarity with AI/ML platform engineering concepts and working closely with applied AI or data science teams
• Background in data engineering or pipeline infrastructure at scale
• Experience with mobile or IoT-connected platform ecosystems, particularly in consumer hardware or fitness/health tech environments
• Working knowledge of security and compliance requirements within a platform context (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, or similar)
• Experience in Agile or SAFe frameworks, including PI planning facilitation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical trade-offs for executive and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain high-performing, accountable engineering organizations through hiring, development, and performance management
• (bonus) 2+ years experience managing teams

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