Engineering Program Manager

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Bayside Solutions
Cupertino, CA, United States
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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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