Engineering Program Manager

Engineering Program Manager

W2 Contract

Pay Rate: $60 - $70 per hour

Location: Cupertino, CA - Hybrid Role

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly technical Engineering Program Manager (EPM) to drive complex platform-infrastructure and cloud initiatives from early development through production rollout.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive complex platform and cloud infrastructure programs from development through production.
• Partner closely with software, platform, infrastructure, and SRE engineering teams.
• Understand platform architecture sufficiently to participate meaningfully in technical discussions.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
• Identify cross-team technical dependencies early and drive them to closure.
• Coordinate work across platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, SRE, and application teams.
• Ensure production-readiness requirements are identified and addressed before launch.
• Partner with SRE and operations teams on supportability, monitoring, alerting, capacity, reliability, and operational ownership.
• Manage relationships with multiple internal engineering organizations consuming the platform.
• Translate technical requirements, risks, and status across engineering teams, internal customers, and senior leadership.
• Drive resolution of ownership gaps, technical blockers, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Coordinate infrastructure provisioning, platform integration, validation, rollout, migration, and operational handoff activities.
• Ensure technical decisions and program tradeoffs are clearly documented.
• Track critical-path dependencies and proactively address schedule or delivery risk.
• Present program status, risks, decisions, and technical context to senior leadership.
• Respond credibly to technical questions during leadership and stakeholder reviews.
• Drive ambiguous initiatives independently with limited supervision.
• Maintain focus on complete program outcomes rather than individual task completion.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Significant experience managing complex technical engineering programs.
• Strong technical foundation in software engineering, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or a closely related area.
• Ability to understand system architecture, technical design documents, APIs, infrastructure dependencies, and engineering tradeoffs.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure.
• Understanding of cloud architecture and managed cloud services.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Understanding of distributed systems and service dependencies.
• Familiarity with cloud networking concepts, including DNS, routing, load balancing, VPC networking, and service connectivity.
• Understanding of software development and deployment lifecycles.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, production deployment, monitoring, and operational-readiness concepts.
• Ability to identify technical dependencies and translate them into program plans and sequencing.
• Strong cross-functional program-management skills.
• Demonstrated experience managing risks, milestones, dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder and internal customer management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both engineering teams and senior leadership.
• Ability to work independently and drive ambiguous programs to completion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous software-engineering or platform-engineering experience.
• Experience with Go, Java, Python, or another general-purpose programming language.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based platform environments.
• Experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud, or other large-scale cloud environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud automation.
• Experience with Helm or Kubernetes deployment tooling.
• Experience with large-scale platform migrations or multi-cloud programs.
• Experience supporting internal developers or infrastructure platforms.
• Experience coordinating production launches involving SRE or operations organizations.
• Experience working with networking, security, infrastructure, and application engineering teams.
• Experience presenting technical programs to senior or executive leadership.

Bayside Solutions, Inc. is not able to sponsor any candidates at this time. Additionally, candidates for this position must qualify as a W2 candidate.

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