Senior Engineering Manager-HCP Terraform Foundations-Production Engineering

IBM is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for their HCP Terraform Foundations Engineering group, which focuses on the reliability and performance of the HCP Terraform hosted service. The manager will lead the Production Engineering team, ensuring the scalability and health of production services while fostering team growth and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Provide mission and direction for the team:
• Work with leadership and product partner to develop a roadmap which supports the organization’s yearly goals for scale and growth objectives
• Lead the engineers in continuing to deliver forward-thinking projects and major improvements to our reliability and stability
• Foster the team’s growth:
• Mentor and coach the team, promoting their career growth and professional development
• Expand the team when needed, recruiting and interviewing new engineers which complement the team’s skills and experience
• Foster diversity, inclusion, and equity within the team and across our group
• Advocate for the team and their work:
• Work with other managers to understand shared dependencies, roadmap items, and potential blockers for the team
• Increase visibility for the team and publicly celebrate the team’s accomplishments

Requirements:

• 5+ years leading engineering teams for large-scale SaaS platforms
• An interest in building a support structure for engineers to help them succeed at their job
• A dedication to modeling and supporting a positive and healthy work life balance
• Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership
• Experience managing a remote distributed team of reasonable size
• Experience with managing both development and platform/operational (i.e. Site Reliability Engineering) workstreams
• Qualified opinions about driving observability, reliability, and availability for large-scale distributed systems
• Exposure to systems software and services written in Go and Ruby on Rails monoliths