IT Platform Engineering Manager at Axle

Tysons, VAFull-timeInformation TechnologyPosted 14 days ago

About the Role

<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma';">(ID: 2026-3644)   Axle is a bioscience and information technology company that offers advancements in translational research, biomedical informatics, and data science applications to research centers and healthcare organizations nationally and abroad. With experts in biomedical science, software engineering, and program management, we focus on developing and applying research tools and techniques to empower decision-making and accelerate research discoveries. We work with some of the top research organizations and facilities in the country including multiple institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). </div>   <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma';"> Benefits We Offer: <ul> <li>100% Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage for Employees</li> <li>Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays</li> <li>401K match up to 5%</li> <li>Educational Benefits for Career Growth</li> <li>Employee Referral Bonus</li> <li>Flexible Spending Accounts: <ul> <li>Healthcare (FSA)</li> <li>Parking Reimbursement Account (PRK)</li> <li>Dependent Care Assistant Program (DCAP)</li> <li>Transportation Reimbursement Account (TRN)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="ck-content" style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;" data-wrapper="true"> <div style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">  <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Position Overview </div> <div style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">We are seeking an IT Platform Engineering Manager with strong DevSecOps expertise to lead our platform engineering team and own the reliability, security, and scalability of our cloud and containerized infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership role combining people management, technical direction, and production operations. This is a hybrid position - local to the DC Metro Area.  </div> <div style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;"> <ul> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e4ae9db22a758cb9f116095aaa7774ffe"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">You will partner with development, security (HIPAA and FedRamp High), and business stakeholders to set platform priorities, improve the developer experience, and embed security throughout the software delivery lifecycle. You will guide the team while contributing directly to architecture, automation, and complex troubleshooting. </li> </ul> </div> <div style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">  </div> <div style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Key Responsibilities </div> <div style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;"> <ul> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e47ae965230f4db3234ca2ecfa711bd8e"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Lead and develop the platform engineering team through hiring, coaching, performance management, and clear ownership of delivery and operational responsibilities. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="ef9d1459d08bd5bbc8df155f1dfd17b36"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Own the platform roadmap and engineering standards. Prioritize work, manage team capacity, and communicate progress, dependencies, and technical risks to stakeholders. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="ec192a788de2e40c98c177f5bbda9ad73"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Oversee and contribute to <span class="TextRun SCXW64229204 BCX8 NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto" data-ccp-parastyle="No Spacing">production Kubernetes operations, including cluster upgrades, Helm deployments, workload optimization, capacity planning, and application availability. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e26535603783fc33845c942af5e53451b"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Establish DevSecOps practices across CI/CD pipelines, including code, dependency, container, and infrastructure scanning; secrets management; and risk-based vulnerability remediation. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="ecdd8f11efdb5e0f3c71039f570a91869"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="TextRun SCXW64229204 BCX8 NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto" data-ccp-parastyle="No Spacing">Guide AWS architecture and infrastructure security, including identity and access management, network segmentation, system hardening, and secure container design. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="eeef89bb48ad57d38b435165ae98fc244"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Standardize infrastructure provisioning and configuration through reusable Terraform modules, scripting, and version-controlled deployment workflows that reduce manual work. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e0210096bd017037e4ff74d366cecbfcf"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Own observability and operational readiness. Define service reliability objectives and maintain actionable monitoring, alerting, logs, runbooks, and tested recovery procedures. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e8ad64405dbddefc14f1f260e07d13c92"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Lead incident response and technical escalations, coordinate stakeholder communications, and turn root-cause findings into improvements that prevent recurring failures. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e1ab58f59ffa2ada28c0a1d6bd010acb3"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Manage infrastructure costs and capacity, contribute to budget planning, and evaluate tools and vendors against security, reliability, and business requirements. </li> </ul> </div> <div style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">  </div> <div style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Required Qualifications </div> <div style="font-family: Segoe UI; font-size: 11pt;"> <ul> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="eb408af3c5cf7d86965812106da234db8"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Demonstrated experience managing or leading platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or SRE teams, including mentoring engineers and delivering technical initiatives. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="eedb344d5401e63cc1ffb7dbbd8a19356"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">4+ years of hands-on experience <span class="TextRun SCXW53641916 BCX8 NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed" lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" data-contrast="auto" data-ccp-parastyle="No Spacing">managing production Kubernetes clusters, including operations, troubleshooting, upgrades, and workload optimization.  </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e0a19193ac2dbfe333fceb4f4e387e1d5"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Strong proficiency with Helm charts for application deployment and configuration management. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="ef40b92e789fdd1197fe4ee687c58e32c"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Extensive experience with Docker and Docker Compose, including multi-container architectures, image optimization, and secure container design. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="ee8e9a708f0863bd9423df189489c666e"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Advanced Linux administration skills across multiple distributions, including package management, networking, storage, permissions, and system performance. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="efca6eba848e19f0c0f81f63e481b2f85"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Strong troubleshooting skills for network, DNS, API, and service connectivity issues in distributed systems. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e490c4f07ec43f688f75ee0764c2120a2"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Hands-on experience with log management, monitoring, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e444facf22b7615ab820de5b994c0e8df"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Advanced scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages for automation, tooling, and system integrations. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e660da7224802885eb06e927a56e1e58f"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Proven experience with system hardening, security best practices, and vulnerability remediation across cloud infrastructure and containerized environments. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e9f3fca0ec7945b52c1eeaf652f2d3d9f"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Proficiency with AWS services and tools, including EKS, EC2, IAM, CloudWatch, Security Groups, and VPC networking. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="ec103e1929b508d3179efe1393bbb5aa2"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, security checks, and reliable deployment and rollback processes. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="e3fc64b0c0dbc1fc004e76b45ded77b14"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Proficiency with Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and integration into infrastructure deployment workflows. </li> <li class="ck-list-marker-font-size ck-list-marker-font-family" data-list-item-id="eafb19c8f9a8a88dc6e92c45501b5fb10"> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Strong communication and planning skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs, delegate effectively, and align engineering work with business priorities. <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">  </li> </ul> <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">What You Will Bring <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">You combine technical depth with thoughtful people leadership. You make security part of everyday engineering, use automation to reduce operational overhead, and help engineers grow through clear expectations and useful feedback. You remain calm during incidents and build productive relationships across development, security, and operations. <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">  Eligibility Requirement <p class="Paragraph SCXW64229204 BCX8" style="background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Employment in this position is limited to U.S. Persons as defined by federal regulations. Only U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, asylees, and refugees are eligible. </div> </div>   <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Tahoma'; text-align: center;"> Disclaimer: The above description is meant to illustrate the general nature of work and level of effort being performed by individuals assigned to this position or job description. This is not restricted as a complete list of all skills, responsibilities, duties, and/or assignments required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their position, job description or responsibilities as needed. The diversity of Axle’s employees is a tremendous asset. We are firmly committed to providing equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and will not tolerate any illegal discrimination or harassment based on age, race, gender, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, covered veteran status, sexual orientation, status with respect to public assistance, and other characteristics protected under state, federal, or local law and to deter those who aid, abet, or induce discrimination or coerce others to discriminate. Accessibility: If you need an accommodation as part of the employment process please contact: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target=" _blank">[email protected]</a> This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range listed below. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. #IND </div><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range">$150,000—$180,000 USD</div></div></div>

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