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Sr Manager - Infrastructure, SRE, & AI Platforms - Services Special Projects

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Cupertino, CA$237.6k - $401.7kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Infrastructure, SRE & AI Platforms Manager responsible for long-term technical strategy, organizational structure, and operational roadmap for global, mission-critical infrastructure platforms on the Services Special Projects team. Leads multi-tier engineering teams, establishes standards for SRE and capacity planning, and translates business imperatives into scalable platform designs with a focus on automation and ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the long-term technical vision and capital investment strategy for global compute, storage, network, observability, and AI infrastructure.
  • Partner with Leadership to align platform capabilities, risk management, capacity investments, and architectural decisions with overarching business goals.
  • Evaluate emerging infrastructure technologies and make strategic platform trade-off decisions.
  • Architect, scale, and optimize large-scale AI infrastructure environments for training and inference, including cluster design, scheduling, interconnect performance, storage throughput, and capacity planning.
  • Oversee internal Kubernetes compute environments as well as managed public cloud platforms (AWS EKS, GCP GKE) and large bare-metal footprints.
  • Direct the strategy and maintenance for distributed block/object storage and data platforms (e.g., Cassandra, FoundationDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka).
  • Ensure reliable global traffic management, load balancing, cloud networking architectures, and enterprise security compliance.
  • Cultivate a mature SRE culture focusing on high availability, telemetry, logging, metrics, and post-incident analysis.
  • Build, mentor, and lead a globally distributed organization across all levels (interns through senior principal staff).
  • Establish an environment of ownership, accountability, and aggressive automation of manual processes.

Qualifications

  • MS Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 12+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience building, scaling, and operating mission-critical infrastructure platforms and global services.
  • 6+ years managing multi-layered engineering organizations (manager-of-managers) with hiring, development, and retention of top-tier talent across global sites.
  • Hands-on and architectural expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes platform engineering, and hybrid cloud operations (AWS, GCP, private data centers).
  • Direct operational and architectural experience with large-scale AI/ML training and inference workloads, including scheduling and high-performance storage/networking.
  • Deep background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), telemetry, observability, disaster recovery, and 24/7 high-availability operations.
  • Strong technical communication bridging executive strategy and detailed technical discussions.

Skills

Required:Strategic LeadershipSRE & Operational ExcellenceCloud & Distributed Compute

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Discounted products and free services
  • Education reimbursement for career advancement (tuition)
  • Potential discretionary bonuses or commissions
  • Relocation assistance
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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