Platform Acceleration Manager
Company:
The Boeing Company
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.
Position 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
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
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 mitigatio
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
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
Conflict Of Interest:
Successful Candidates for this job must satisfy the Company’s Conflict Of Interest (COI) assessment process.
Drug Free Workplace:
Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies
Pay & Benefits:
At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.
The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
pay range: $161,500 - $233,450
Language Requirements:
Not Applicable
Education:
Not Applicable
Relocation:
Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.
Export Control Requirement:
This position must meet U.S. export control compliance requirements. To meet U.S. export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.
Safety Sensitive:
This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.
Security Clearance:
This position does not require a Security Clearance.
Visa Sponsorship:
Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.
Contingent Upon Award Program
This position is not contingent upon program award
Shift:
Shift 1 (United States of America)
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