Resiliency Engineering Manager
Company | American Family Insurance Group |
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Location | Madison, WI, USA, Boston, MA, USA |
Salary | $128000 – $216000 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Demonstrated effective leadership skills.
- Expert in Spring, Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes – at scale – with experience deploying applications with a combination of internal and external Cloud providers.
- Deep understanding of Cloud and infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end-to-end Cloud infrastructure architectures and designs.
- Demonstrated ability to architect and build high-volume, critical micro-services, and Cloud-native applications.
- Experience using, and writing, architectural patterns, standard methodologies, and guidelines for enterprise applications.
- A fundamental desire and focus on minimizing overhead and complexity while empowering and enabling self-managing & agile delivery.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills are essential, as are strong diplomatic skills and the ability to manage multiple stakeholder groups.
Responsibilities
- Lead ITSM Excellence & Drive Resiliency Evolution: Lead initiatives to enhance our IT Service Management (ITSM) practices while guiding the transition to Reliability / Resiliency Engineering principles.
- Problem Management Leadership: Help architects and technical leads leverage lessons learned from major incidents (Root Cause Analysis – RCA). Champion the creation of work backlogs that drive the improvement of implementation processes, system designs, and future incident detection, prevention, and circumvention.
- Change Management Ownership: Take charge of the change control process for all technology-related changes. Focus on improving stability scores, risk management, and reducing service disruptions.
- Maintain a Broad IT Landscape: Stay ahead by understanding the full spectrum of our IT ecosystem. Be a driving force in maintaining a comprehensive view of all layers, systems, and shared capabilities, ensuring that each piece works harmoniously to meet business goals.
- Applies technical knowledge and customer insights to create a modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key infrastructure technologies.
- Manages the design, development, engineering, implementation and operations of servers, technology infrastructure, networks, websites and telecommunication services provided by external cloud/hosting providers, and in-house development teams.
- Oversees the development of product roadmaps and backlogs that are prioritized based on short-term and long-term value delivery.
- Drives product development towards a meaningful balance between user needs, business objectives, resource utilization, and technical feasibility.
- Manages the performance and availability with minimal downtime/disruption of cloud vendor and internally provided services.
- Coordinates with internal/external project team in leading cloud and end user service delivery implementation plans and ensures completion of projects on schedule and within budget.
- Creates a collaborative, performance-driven work environment by facilitating and fostering trust, transparency, and inclusion. Works with team members to set clear goals, provide feedback, perform performance assessments, and support on-going development.
- Leads with influence and expertise. Actively contributes to division or department leadership team. Communicates and supports organization mission, vision, values, policies, and practices.
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.