Manager, Platform Engineering

🕒 6 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $123k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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UFG Insurance

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1946

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

UFG Insurance is a property and casualty insurance company that provides commercial insurance products and services, including inland marine, commercial property, commercial liability, workers' compensation, surety, excess & surplus, reinsurance and businessowners policies. It focuses on serving businesses—manufacturing, construction, real estate, architects and engineers, heavy equipment dealers and other small to mid-sized enterprises—through agents and brokers, emphasizing claims service, risk control consulting, premium audit and in-house service capabilities.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of infrastructure engineers responsible for compute, storage, network, data container, and cloud platform services • Provide day-to-day oversight, coaching, and performance development for engineering staff • Establish team objectives, manage resource allocation, and support staff development • Own lifecycle management of physical and virtual infrastructure • Ensure high availability, security, and performance through monitoring, automation, and capacity planning • Lead patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and infrastructure right-sizing • Design a forward-looking hybrid architecture with Enterprise Architecture • Oversee hybrid cloud infrastructure operations across IaaS, PaaS, and container platforms • Develop team expertise in AWS and Azure • Partner with DevOps on orchestration and control-plane systems across on-premises and cloud environments • Manage cloud tenancy configurations, landing zones, and resource controls • Promote infrastructure-as-code and config-as-code practices • Manage networking services including routing, switching, load balancing, DNS/DHCP, VPNs, and firewall integration • Ensure secure connectivity across datacenters, cloud environments, branch offices, and remote endpoints • Partner with application engineering, DevOps, production operations, security, and architecture teams • Provide infrastructure support for deployments, migrations, and production cutovers • Participate in incident response and root cause analysis as an infrastructure escalation point • Maintain platform engineering standards, documentation, and operational runbooks • Support vendor selection, contract reviews, and third-party service delivery • Align infrastructure practices with governance, security, and compliance requirements • Support governance and internal audit teams and external audit processes • Oversee deployment, scaling, and management of data container platforms and data virtualization engines • Define configuration standards, monitoring practices, and automation pipelines for containerized data platforms and virtualized data access infrastructure

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent work experience in an enterprise technology environment • At least 10+ years supporting computer systems at scale in server and end-user environments • At least 6+ years supporting enterprise-scale server environments in both on-prem and cloud environments • At least 2+ years in a supervisory role • Experience with physical and virtual infrastructure, including server environments, storage arrays, hypervisors, and networking components • Experience with AWS and Azure • Experience with IaaS, PaaS, container platforms, orchestration, and control-plane systems • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and config-as-code practices • Knowledge of routing, switching, load balancing, DNS/DHCP, VPNs, and firewall integration • Experience with SQL Server, Cloudbase, data containers, and Delphix data virtualization • Familiarity with SOX, NIST, and CIS benchmarks • Ability to handle off-hour and emergency escalations • Up to 5% travel, potentially including overnight stays • Certifications are not specifically required; listed useful certifications include VMware Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate, Couchbase Certified Associate or Professional, and Delphix Data Platform Administrator Certification

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive compensation • Medical, dental, vision & life insurance • Accident, critical Illness & short-term disability insurance • Retirement plans with employer contributions • Generous time-off program • Programs designed to support the employee well-being and financial security • Up to 5% travel may include overnight stays