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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Acceleration Manager - **Company:** Boeing Company - **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $161,500.0 - $233,450.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Management of Software Versions, Cloud Platform System, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Azure AKS, Cloud Optimization, Terraform, Webhooks - **Published:** May 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=52aa873136095293 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Tooling?, * 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, * 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., 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. ยง120.62 is required. "U.S. Person" includes U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee. ## Description 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., * 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 ## Related Videos - [Crew Management System for Airlines: Plan duties for pilots & flight attendants worldwide](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1444-crew-management-system-for-airlines-plan-duties-for-pilots-flight-attendants-worldwide) - [Infrastructure as Code: The Developer's Secret Weapon](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1221-infrastructure-as-code-the-developer-s-secret-weapon) - [Azure-Well Architected Framework - designing mission critical workloads in practice](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1529-azure-well-architected-framework-designing-mission-critical-workloads-in-practice) - [Beyond Webhooks: The Future of Scalable API Event Delivery](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100312-beyond-webhooks-the-future-of-scalable-api-event-delivery) - [Building a Cloud Platform Where Everything is Just Another Kubernetes Resource](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100137-building-a-cloud-platform-where-everything-is-just-another-kubernetes-resource) - [Implementing Feature Environments with AWS and Terraform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/531-implementing-feature-environments-with-aws-and-terraform) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Why Attend a Developer Event in 2026?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/688-why-attend-a-developer-event-in-2026) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline)