Boeing

Aerospace

PlatformAccelerationManager

$162–233k Seattle, Washington, United States; North Charleston, South Carolina, United States; Chicago, Illinois, United States; El Segundo, California, United States; Mesa, Arizona, United States; San Diego, California, United States; Berkeley, Missouri, United States; Hazelwood, Missouri, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Platform Acceleration Manager at Boeing. Skills: Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Technical Leadership, People Management, Rapid-innovation, Cloud Strategy, Cloud Architecture, Developer Experience (DevEx), Runtime Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). Lead the Platform Acceleration team. Design, prototype, and productize the enterprise runtime platform”

What You'll Achieve.

Innovations are validated, documented, and handed off for long-term operation; Deliver reusable, production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC), operators, and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that downstream teams adopt; Ensure downstream teams can safely upgrade and adopt new capabilities; Track and report success metrics for adoption, operability, and risk

Industry & Context.

Aerospace
Problems you'll solve

Diagnose and remediate systemic platform issues; Hands-on in complex troubleshooting

Eligibility Requirements

Must meet U. S. export control compliance requirements, Requires a 'U. S. Person' as defined by 22 C. F. R. §120. 62, Conflict Of Interest (COI) assessment process

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

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 mitigation

Nice to Have

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

What You'll Do.

Lead the Platform Acceleration team

and productize the enterprise runtime platform

Own the Platform Acceleration (PA) roadmap

Coordinate Proof of Concept (PoC) to production delivery

Partner with Cloud Strategy

Developer Experience (DevEx)

and Runtime Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Ensure innovations are validated

and handed off for long-term operation

Actively contribute technically to prototypes

and critical delivery artifacts

Define and enforce operability acceptance criteria and formal handoff processes

production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

Lead rapid-response cross-team efforts to diagnose and remediate systemic platform issues

Partner with Cloud Strategy and Cloud Architecture to align innovations to enterprise direction

and change-management practices for runtime

Represent the PA team in leadership forums

and incident post-mortems

Track and report success metrics for adoption

Iterate the roadmap based on telemetry and stakeholder feedback

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with Cloud Strategy, Cloud Architecture, Foundations, Developer Experience (DevEx), and Runtime Site Reliability Engineer (SRE); Work cross-functionally with architecture, security, operations, and DevEx teams; Represent the PA team in leadership forums, architecture reviews, and incident post-mortems

Communication Scope

Presenting technical designs and tradeoffs to engineering and business leadership

Process & Methodology

Own and prioritize the Platform Acceleration roadmap, Coordinate PoC to production delivery, Define success criteria for PoCs, Manage stakeholder feedback, Track and report success metrics, Iterate roadmap based on telemetry and feedback

Full Job Description

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 * Le

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