Platform Engineering Manager

at AeroFarms

Job description

ABOUT AEROFARMS:  AeroFarms is transforming agriculture with people and the planet in mind. As a Certified B Corporation and a pioneer in indoor vertical farming, we have built a proprietary agriculture platform to grow products, delivering superior flavor, better quality, and improved nutrition and food safety in our industry. Now in over 2,800+ store fronts across the nation, we are scaling our award-winning brand and technology.   Job Description: We are seeking a highly motivated, analytical and collaborative Senior Financial Analyst / Associate to elevate our FP&A organization during this exciting stage of growth. Our FP&A team is responsible for the Company’s strategy, planning and financing efforts. Reporting to the Director of Corporate Development and FP&A, you’ll play a critical part in facilitating corporate-level decision-making, guide company-wide financial planning, and scale new and existing processes. This is an opportunity to combine your financial modeling, business acumen, and data analytics in a mission-driven, fast-paced environment.

We are seeking a highly skilled Platform Engineering Manager to design, build, and scale our DevOps / Hybrid-Infrastructure and Software Engineering capabilities. You will drive strategy, execution, and adoption of platform initiatives, ensuring reliability, security, and developer productivity across the organization.

You will also be a key contributor in the technical architecture and development related activities related to future farms.

Key Responsibilities

  • DevOps / Infrastructure
    • Architect, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration.
    • Monitor, optimize, and secure hybrid-cloud infrastructure.
    • Lead efforts around observability, logging, and monitoring to ensure uptime and performance.
    • Drive automation initiatives for infrastructure provisioning, testing, and deployment.
  • Functional
    • People management, but in a “player/coach” type role allocating time between technical implementation and unblocking tasks for the team
    • Wear multiple hats to help IT in a cross-section of items where needed
    • Partner with other departments to design and deploy critical systems
    • Challenge yourself and your peers to always improve
    • Hands-On Experience

Responsibilities in Support

  • Full Stack Development
    • Contribute to backend APIs, data services, and frontend integrations.
    • Design and build horizontally scalable components within a new major platform that the team is developing.
    • Apply strong coding practices and conduct reviews where necessary.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 8+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Full Stack Development, or related roles with 2+ years in People Management.
  • Proven expertise with CI/CD, hybrid-cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tools.
  • Strong programming skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
  • Ability to travel and serve as on-call

Our Tools

  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions & Azure DevOps
  • On-Prem Infrastructure: VMware/ESXi/vSphere, Meraki
  • Cloud: Azure
  • Containers: Docker (Compose & Swarm), Kubernetes (AKS, K3s, ArgoCD)
  • SQL: PostgreSQL, Timescale DB, MS SQL Server, Fabric
  • Programming: Git, Typescript, JavaScript, Bash, PowerShell
  • Frameworks/Libraries: React, AntD, Apollo/GraphQL, Express, Cypress, Redux/Saga
  • Big Data: Kafka, Spark, Fabric, Power BI, Notebooks (Jupyter), Timescale DB

Nice to Have

  • Data Engineering Experience
  • Manufacturing Industry Experience
  • Experience with Inductive Automation, Python, Unified Name Space, and MQTT

Location

Remote with Travel

In accordance with organizational protocol, employees will at times be required to fill absences in the operation process that are equal to or lower than their positional hierarchy. Additionally, if an employee is absent, the role of the absent employee is to be completed by their immediate superior.

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  • 51-200 employees
  • Founded in 2004
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