Software Engineering Group Manager (Kubernetes CaaS Platform)

Location: In-office role based in Farmers Branch, Texas, with locations also available in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Strongsville, Ohio; Birmingham, Alabama; Phoenix, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; or Dallas, Texas.

Salary: Base salary of $146,300–$326,040 per year, plus incentive eligibility.

Company

hirify.global is a banking and financial services company with an enterprise Technology organization.

What you will do

• Define the strategy, architecture, roadmap, and adoption plan for Kubernetes and container-as-a-service platforms supporting enterprise workloads.
• Design, deploy, and manage highly available, secure, scalable containerized infrastructure across on-premises and public-cloud environments.
• Lead product development for container runtime, security, orchestration, self-service options, APIs, and technical documentation.
• Establish standards and best practices for Kubernetes, CI/CD, microservices deployment, observability, logging, monitoring, tracing, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Partner with DevOps, security, networking, and engineering teams to improve infrastructure-as-code, platform reliability, developer experience, and adoption.
• Optimize cluster efficiency, resource management, platform performance, SLOs/SLAs, and on-premises and cloud costs while mentoring engineers and managing stakeholders.

Requirements

• 10+ years of technology experience, including extensive experience leading Container Platform Engineering teams.
• 10+ years of expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, CI/CD tools, public-cloud providers, and platform engineering.
• Architecture or software engineering experience in an agile software product development environment, preferably involving developer platform products.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, DevOps tooling, Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins, and GitOps.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift, bare-metal Kubernetes, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
• Ability to build technical strategy and lead in a matrixed organization, manage cross-functional teams, and handle multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience, preferred.
• At least 5 years of prior management experience and proven leadership across a moderate to large scope of responsibility.

Nice to have

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes cluster architecture, workload orchestration, networking, RBAC, and security best practices.
• Hands-on experience integrating Kubernetes with enterprise systems in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Deep experience with Agile methodologies and Jira, Rally, or ADO.
• CKA, CKAD, or CKS certification.
• CSPO or SAFe POPM certification.
• AWS, Azure, or GCP certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, supportive in-office workplace focused on customer service, risk management, collaboration, and employee development.
• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, life insurance, disability protection, HSA, 401(k) matching, pension, and stock purchase plans.
• Paid parental and maternity leave, up to 11 paid holidays, occasional absence days, and 15–25 vacation days depending on career level and service.
• Educational assistance, wellness programs, dependent-care support, and adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement.
• No employment visa sponsorship or STEM OPT participation.