Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform Engineering.

Lead, coach, and develop a diverse team of platform engineers, setting clear objectives, providing timely feedback, and building sustainable succession and capability plans.

Own workforce planning, talent acquisition, onboarding, performance management, engagement, retention, and career development for the platform engineering organization.

Create an inclusive, accountable, and high-performing culture that encourages technical excellence, experimentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.

Balance delivery priorities, team capacity, technical debt, and operational commitments while empowering leaders and engineers to make effective decisions.

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support secure, repeatable, and automated application delivery across development, test, validation, and production environments.

Automate build, test, deployment, configuration, release, rollback, and environment provisioning processes to reduce manual effort and delivery risk.

Partner with engineering teams to integrate platform capabilities into sprint delivery, release planning, branching strategies, and deployment workflows.

Continuously improve pipeline reliability, deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery practices.

Provision, configure, and operate cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code, reusable templates, and automated governance controls.

Support containerized workloads, Kubernetes platforms, service configuration, secrets management, networking, storage, and runtime reliability.

Implement scalable cloud patterns for application hosting, integration, data services, identity, backup, disaster recovery, and environment lifecycle management.

Collaborate with architecture and platform teams to standardize cloud operating models, guardrails, reusable modules, and engineering accelerators.

Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and service health indicators to improve visibility across applications and infrastructure.

Support incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, release validation, capacity planning, and operational readiness reviews.

Improve availability, performance, scalability, resiliency, backup, recovery, and service continuity across production platforms.

Define and track operational KPIs such as deployment success rate, incident trends, mean time to recovery, environment stability, and system performance.

Embed security scanning, dependency checks, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, policy enforcement, and compliance evidence into automated delivery workflows.

Partner with cybersecurity, privacy, quality, and architecture teams to implement secure software development lifecycle and cloud security practices.

Maintain audit-ready deployment records, configuration baselines, access controls, change evidence, release approvals, and validation artifacts where required.

Drive continuous improvement across automation quality, platform reliability, operational risk, technical debt, and cloud cost optimization.

Work closely with software engineers, QA engineers, product teams, cybersecurity, platform teams, and operations teams to improve end-to-end software delivery.

Create reusable templates, documentation, playbooks, runbooks, and self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity and operational consistency.

Troubleshoot complex build, deployment, infrastructure, environment, access, networking, and performance issues across cloud and enterprise systems.

Mentor junior engineers and promote principled engineering practices across platform automation, scripting, release management, observability, and production support.

Represent the platform engineering organization with strategic vendors, cloud providers, technology partners, industry forums, and relevant professional communities.

Establish productive external relationships to evaluate emerging capabilities, benchmark engineering practices, influence roadmaps, and accelerate responsible adoption of new technologies.

Lead vendor governance, service reviews, commercial and delivery discussions, risk escalation, and performance improvement in partnership with procurement and internal stakeholders.

Communicate platform strategy, operating model, investment needs, outcomes, and risks to senior leaders and global partners with clarity and credibility.

Translate broad business outcomes and incomplete information into a coherent platform strategy, prioritized roadmap, measurable decisions, and executable plans.

Make timely, risk-informed decisions amid uncertainty, changing priorities, complex dependencies, and competing stakeholder expectations.

Create clarity for teams by defining decision principles, ownership, guardrails, success measures, and escalation paths while allowing plans to evolve as evidence emerges.

Navigate organizational complexity, constructively challenge assumptions, and align diverse stakeholders around pragmatic solutions and enterprise outcomes.

Ensure infrastructure, pipelines, deployments, and operational processes comply with applicable enterprise security, privacy, quality, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.

Support GxP, Computer System Validation (CSV), GDPR, HIPAA, change management, and internal J&J technology standards where applicable.

Maintain traceability for releases, configuration changes, infrastructure updates, deployment approvals, incident records, and operational controls.

Promote secure, reliable, and responsible engineering practices across cloud, application, data, and AI-enabled technology platforms.

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Master's Degree preferred.

15+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, site reliability engineering, release engineering, infrastructure automation, or software delivery enablement, including 5+ years in people leadership or engineering management roles.

Demonstrated success building, coaching, and retaining high-performing engineering teams and managing performance, capability development, succession, and workforce planning.

Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated deployments, and environment provisioning across enterprise applications.

Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, including compute, networking, identity, storage, monitoring, security, and managed services.

Experience with containers, Kubernetes, configuration management, scripting, observability platforms, incident management, and production support.

Experience with secure platform engineering practices, automated security scans, vulnerability remediation, access control, audit evidence, and regulated delivery practices.

Experience managing strategic vendors or external technology partners and influencing senior, global, and cross-functional stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.

Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, frame complex problems, make risk-informed decisions, and establish direction in evolving enterprise environments.

Experience in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Life Sciences, or other regulated industries preferred.

Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions / Jenkins

Service catalog, software templates, golden paths

Build and release pipelines

Release, rollback, and change automation

Azure / AWS / GCP cloud platforms

Terraform / OpenTofu / Pulumi / Crossplane

Bicep / ARM / CloudFormation

Cloud networking, identity, storage, compute

Configuration, backup, recovery, environment lifecycle

Docker and container runtime concepts

Kubernetes / AKS / EKS / GKE

Helm / Kustomize / GitOps

Argo CD / Flux continuous delivery

API gateways, service mesh, platform operations

Prometheus / Grafana / ELK / Splunk

OpenTelemetry monitoring, logging, tracing

Vault / cloud secrets management

OPA / Kyverno / policy-as-code

Incident, problem, and change management

As Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, you will shape the platform strategy, build and lead a high-performing engineering organization, and strengthen Johnson & Johnson's ability to deliver digital products securely, reliably, and at scale. You will improve developer productivity, reduce platform complexity, increase operational resilience, build trusted internal and external partnerships, and create clarity through ambiguity to enable compliant cloud-based delivery across critical enterprise platforms.

People manager accountable for a team of platform engineers and technical leads; oversees a blended workforce of employees, contractors, vendors, and strategic partners, with team size aligned to business scope.

Platform Engineering / Cloud Platforms / Clinical IT / ICC Hyderabad

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.