Platform Engineering Manager - US Remote

Overview

PerfectServe is looking for a Platform Engineering Manager to lead and grow the team behind our cloud platform. You'll coach and develop a group of platform engineers while staying hands-on with our hardest infrastructure problems, and you'll help shape the platform roadmap alongside your Director and our engineering and product partners.

We work in healthcare SaaS, where reliability and security touch patient care, so this role carries real responsibility. What matters most is showing up well across the board: pairing technical depth with collaboration, clear communication and good judgment, rather than being strong in just one area. The work you and your team do supports the healthcare community we serve every day.

Essential Functions

• Team Leadership & People Management: Lead, mentor and grow a team of platform engineers. You'll own hiring, onboarding, performance management, career development and day-to-day prioritization, and you'll nurture a culture of engineering excellence, accountability and psychological safety.
• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Stay hands-on as a player-coach. You'll contribute to architecture decisions, infrastructure-as-code and code reviews, and dig into the toughest infrastructure problems. You'll help establish the patterns and best practices that your team, and over time the broader engineering team, can adopt.
• Platform Roadmap & Planning: Contribute to the platform roadmap and turn org strategy into your team's plan of record. You'll help balance reliability, cost, security and developer experience, make team-level build-vs-buy and tooling decisions, and manage your team's capacity and commitments.
• Cloud Implementation & Strategy: Guide the deployment and evolution of cloud solutions with a strong focus on AWS, using modern Infrastructure as Code and automation. You'll evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adopting them where they make the platform stronger.
• AI & AIOps Enablement (in partnership with Platform Operations): Make sure the platform your team builds exposes the observability, automation and integration points that make AIOps possible, from intelligent monitoring to automated remediation and self-healing. Operational ownership of the AIOps practice (anomaly detection, predictive autoscaling, automated incident triage and root-cause analysis) lives with Platform Operations, and you partner closely to make it possible in the platform.
• Reliability & Operations (in partnership with Platform Operations): Make sure the systems your team builds meet the SLIs and SLOs owned by Platform Operations. You'll support incident response and take part in blameless post-mortems for platform-owned services, driving the engineering improvements that come out of them.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication: Partner with product, security, Platform Operations and engineering teams to line platform priorities up with business goals. You'll communicate technical strategy and trade-offs clearly to both technical teams and stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation: Keep the team current with tools, technologies and best practices, including advances in AI/ML and AIOps, and champion the initiatives that move PerfectServe's platform forward.

Qualifications

Required

• 8+ years of platform engineering experience, including 2+ years leading or mentoring a team (platform, infrastructure, DevOps or SRE), with hiring, mentoring and performance-management responsibility.
• Extensive hands-on Kubernetes administration at scale, including ArgoCD, Helm and cluster lifecycle management.
• Expert-level proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code frameworks; experience defining reusable IaC patterns and modules, and managing CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
• Deep expertise with AWS (networking, compute, storage, security) and containerization in cloud-native environments.
• Working knowledge of observability, developer-platform (IDP) patterns and security/IAM principles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts and risk to diverse audiences.
• Must be available for on-call escalation coverage.

Preferred

• Experience partnering on AIOps practices and tooling such as ML-driven observability, intelligent alerting, automated remediation or predictive scaling.
• Experience in healthcare SaaS or another regulated environment.
• Experience designing internal developer platforms or X-as-a-Service offerings.
• FinOps / cloud-cost awareness.
• Experience leading a mix of full-time employees and staff-augmentation contractors toward consistent quality and delivery.
• AWS Solution Architect Professional and/or Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD) certifications.

Why This Role

This is a leadership role with a clear mandate. At PerfectServe you'll lead a team building with cutting-edge cloud, AI and platform technologies, and you'll directly contribute to solutions that improve communication and care in healthcare. You'll own your team's outcomes, grow engineers' careers, and hold both employees and contractor partners to a consistent standard, in a place where platform engineering done well makes care safer and more reliable.

Why Join PerfectServe?

At PerfectServe, we are transforming healthcare communication and collaboration to help clinicians deliver better care. You'll work with a dedicated and mission-driven team in an environment that values growth, transparency, and innovation.

We offer a salary range of $140,000-175,000 USD per year, with compensation tailored to your background, strengths, and potential to grow within the team. The salary range listed for this role reflects our commitment to pay transparency and is based on market data, internal equity, and the scope of responsibilities. Compensation will be determined by a combination of factors, including the candidate's experience, skills, and the specific team or product area they support. We regularly review compensation across the company to ensure fairness and consistency. If you are a current employee and have questions about how your compensation aligns with our ranges, we encourage you to speak with your manager or People Operations.

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