Engineering Manager, DevOps, NYT Wirecutter

The New York Times is a leading independent journalism company committed to helping people understand the world. The Engineering Manager for DevOps will oversee a team of engineers, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of services and infrastructure while promoting a collaborative team culture and managing the team's roadmap and results.

Responsibilities:

• Performance management, professional development, and overall health of a diverse team of 4 engineers distributed across the U.S. and Europe
• Recruit and onboard new team members
• Cultivate an inclusive team culture with a respectful and collaborative environment
• Accountability and development of the roadmap, prioritization and re-prioritization decisions, celebrations, process, and end results of the team in collaboration with the other team leads
• Define success, setting constraints, highlighting potential trade-offs, and allowing the team to collaborate
• Build cross-functional relationships by communicating scope, trade-off, timing, uncertainty, and prioritization decisions to direct reports, leadership, and partners
• Contribute to and advocate for the team through engineering-wide projects
• Contribute to engineering-wide plans as a member of Wirecutter's engineering management team
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Requirements:

• You have at least two of years of engineering management experience; including setting goals and crafting growth or continuous improvement plans for your team members
• You have at least two of years of experience in building and scaling applications, environments, and software development process
• You have at least two years of experience leading and facilitating decision making for technical teams
• You have experience managing or working with distributed, or hybrid, teams
• You have experience weighing the benefits and trade-offs associated with microservices architecture, cloud computing services (AWS, GCP, etc), containerization, smart-clustering, continuous deployments, cache management, and automation
• You have experience advocating for your technical team members and steering multiple stakeholders when needed
• You are excited to play a pivotal role in Wirecutter's mission, innovation, and growth