Manager of DevOps Engineering

Title: Manager of DevOps Engineering

• Develop and maintain your teams' roadmap to utilize fully automated, highly scalable, cost-efficient, auditable, and reliable infrastructure.
• Partner closely with your peers in Security, Quality Assurance, Operations, and Product teams to improve quality and velocity of teams' deliverables using goal setting, metrics, quarterly and annual planning and prioritization. Manage, measure, and communicate the teams' progress toward goals.
• Drive performance by managing, motivating, and developing direct reports and future leaders.
• Provide technical guidance and support via engineering design reviews to teams planning and implementing large-scale solutions, deployment of service-oriented architecture and capacity growth.
• Directs the activities necessary to design and develop innovative technical solutions for programs as well as ensure the necessary technology infrastructure is running seamlessly, efficiently, and effectively.
• Scale and lead an innovative, best-in-class product management team by identifying and recruiting top talent.
• Ensure the provision of appropriate resources to address systems' incident support and troubleshooting.
• Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions.
• Leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specifications.
• Accountable for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs and patterns.
• Oversees the management of application portfolios and/or provides resources in support of those portfolios by leveraging partnerships with IT teams; Operations, Architecture, Quality Assurance, Business Analysts, vendors, and business leaders to ensure adherence of written code to company standards.
• With the assistance of your team members, educate Development Teams on best practices for testing, deploying, and developing code. Encourage and enforce the right behaviors to ensure we continue to ship quickly without compromising production stability.
• Collaborate with internal parties to define technical goals, develop innovative solutions, set technical objectives, develop plans and timelines, and monitor ongoing technical delivery to ensure effective project execution.
• Work with product owner to understand internal/external requirements and assist the team in designing solutions to meet specified requirements.

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS, Engineering, or related field and minimum ten (10) years of experience in supporting software development and operations via methods like automated deployments, infrastructure as code in a public cloud (Google Cloud Platform, AWS).
• Ten (10) years of hands-on experience managing or overseeing the management of mid to large-scale information technology projects, including complex cross-functional and cross-organizational projects.
• Five (5) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership (e.g., First Vice President level and above).
• Three (3) years' experience overseeing vendor relationships.
• Successful candidate will have experience managing and implementing Cloud architectures in a DevOps/Agile methodology.
• Proven track record of success managing DevOps/Engineering teams in high-functioning continuous delivery environment that supports outcomes for the business.
• Mastery of modern agile software methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and planning tools (e.g., JIRA)
• Successful track record of defining and executing strategic and innovative initiatives which have had major impact on company and market performance.
• Must be a self-starter, possess exceptional analytical skills and the ability to work in an agile environment with minimum guidance.
• Demonstrable understanding of all layers of cloud infrastructure in highly available platform.
• Experienced in effective communications to technical and non-technical audiences in both verbal and written forms.
• Track record of attracting and developing a strong and diverse engineering team.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving, results-driven environment.