Manager - Platform Engineering
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop technical roadmap for team evolution across all brands and align with Product Owner.
- Contributes to and support the corporate adoption of the DevOps methodology and Agile development
- Strong networking knowledge with emphasis on VPC, Direct Connect, Multi-AZ design
- Provides expert level design and engineering support towards the successful delivery of IT’s cloud project portfolio
- Contribute towards continual service improvement activities related to the delivery of cloud services
- Develop and implement internal systems, processes, and best practices to be used by other teams designed to increase productivity
- Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, cost effectiveness and high availability in the cloud
- Design, implement, and test disaster recovery and business continuity architecture
- Create and implement automation in the form of infrastructure as code for cloud platform solutions
- Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards
- Strong communications and presentation skills.
- Ensures communication and alignment between all teams.
- Ensures and can provide evidence that projects are meeting milestones and deliverables.
- Resolves issues, roadblocks and changes, and escalates to Scrum Master as needed.
- Responsible for IT project budget forecasts/projections and financial reporting.
- Point of escalation for all technical team members.
- Drives successful integrations with internal and external teams, including vendors.
- Ensures the backlog & roadmap aligns with the needs of Product Engineering & Technical Operations teams.
- Ensures team is following all processes, procedures, and templates used in department or organization.
- Identify for improving any processes or procedures that are outdated or obsolete.
- Create a culture of continuous improvement, change and world class delivery.
Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent. Masters degree in Computer science or equivalent engineering disciplines is preferred.
- At least 8+ years of overall experience, including 1-3 years as Technical Lead/Architect managing and overseeing teams.
- 2 plus years of experience working and managing distributed teams.
- Strong architectural experience coupled with delivery of systems that work globally across markets.
- Experience building and delivery of eCommerce sites, Mobile apps
- Experience working with Cloud native applications with Spring Boot ecosystem, ReactJS, Node.js Serverless and AWS or similar platform.
- Strong experience in building/architecting event driven systems
- 4+ years of experience with cloud environments and services such as AWS
- Familiar with Continuous Deployment and Automation concepts
- Comfortable with large-scale production systems and technologies such as load balancing, databases, distributed systems or configuration management.
- In depth, practical experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration, trends and industry-leading cloud vendor offerings
- Experience in architecting and implementing cloud-based solutions with robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recover requirements
- 4+ years practical experience designing, building, and automating solutions utilizing AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, KMS, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, ECS and API Gateway
- 3+ years’ experience working with cloud automation tools such as Terraform. AWS CloudFormation’s experience is also a plus.
- 3+ years’ experience in building CI/CD pipeline automation in tools like Jenkins/Cloud bees with scripting languages such as Groovy, Ruby, or Python
- 3+ years practical experience working in DevOps team/organizations with applied Agile development practices
- 3+ years hands on experience with automated tooling such as Ansible
- Hands on experience with Docker and container orchestration
- Strong understanding and experience leading teams using Agile and Scrum principles.
- Experience with automated testing, deployment pipelines and cloud-based infrastructure.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with a broad spectrum of roles and titles.
- Ability to collaborate, influence and build partnerships.
- Experienced with leading, coaching, and mentoring individuals and teams
- Experience designing and implementing effective process development.
- Experience applying change management best practices to strategies, projects and programs.
- Experience working in a DevOps environment with continuous delivery
- Work closely with the recruitment team to hire and onboard engineers
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Preferably have large-scale experience in an agile development environment
- Experience supporting External APIs / External Vendor integrations
- Experience working with AWS environment
- Maintains current knowledge of marketplace changes, technology changes, and client businesses pertinent to cloud, server, storage and network virtualization.