The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) manages the efficient flow of electricity on more than 11,000 circuit-miles of high-voltage transmission lines, dispatching power from hundreds of generating units across the state. The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) applies cutting-edge technology to operating a reliable electricity system, managing competitive markets for wholesale electricity, and planning for the Empire State's energy future. The NYISO’s Information Technology department invites applications for a full-time Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering.

The Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering leads the team that builds, operates, and continuously improves NYISO’s shared cloud platform, including the Kubernetes/EKS foundation, AWS infrastructure-as-code, delivery tooling, reliability practices, and platform services that application teams use to deploy and operate software. The Manager is responsible for treating the internal cloud platform as a service, with defined consumers, operational expectations, service-level objectives, and a forward-looking roadmap. This includes providing application teams with secure, reliable, cost-effective, and self-service paths to build, deploy, and operate applications on NYISO’s cloud platform.

The role owns the Site Reliability Engineering practice, the EKS/container platform, shared delivery tooling, and the security, compliance, and operational controls embedded across the platform and delivery lifecycle. This includes production ownership for the cloud platform with 24x7 accountability, on-call participation, incident triage, and leadership of service restoration activities. The Manager ensures platform operations align with NYISO’s incident, change, and problem management processes, with accountability for the lifecycle management of platform-related tickets, changes, operational issues, and service improvements.

The Manager develops and manages platform budgets, including multi-year capital and operating forecasts, cloud consumption planning, tooling costs, and vendor-related expenses. This role partners with Procurement and other stakeholders on vendor agreements, cloud service agreements, renewals, prioritization, escalation, and performance oversight for cloud and platform tooling providers. The role is accountable for delivery execution across the platform roadmap, including providing estimates, managing execution plans, coordinating cross-team dependencies, and ensuring roadmap commitments are delivered in alignment with organizational priorities.

The Manager maintains roadmap artifacts, provides regular progress updates, and defines and reports platform performance, reliability, adoption, delivery, and cost metrics to IT leadership.

Requirements

, drive cloud and platform-engineering best practices, support audit and regulatory obligations, and advance the operating-model shift toward AI-assisted, plan-first, human-validated engineering.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Platform Strategy, Architecture, and Roadmap Platform-as-a-Product: Own the internal developer platform as a product by defining consumers, service offerings, paved-road delivery paths, service-level objectives, and a roadmap aligned with NYISO’s business, technology, and cloud migration goals. Architecture and Standards: Guide scalable, resilient, secure, and performant cloud and container architectures; establish reusable, secure-by-default standards, templates, automation, and policy-as-code. Roadmap Governance: Maintain platform roadmap artifacts, prioritize capabilities, track delivery progress, and communicate status, risks, dependencies, and decisions to IT leadership and stakeholders.

Team Leadership and Operating Model Team Development: Attract, develop, mentor, and retain cloud, platform, DevOps, and reliability engineering talent.