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Senior Manager – Devops

Senior Manager – Devops

Company2K
LocationSeattle, WA, USA, Austin, TX, USA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Novato, CA, USA
Salary$155800 – $230560
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience in the SRE, Devops, or system engineering fields
  • 3+ years coaching and mentoring senior technical talent
  • 5+ years experience using Observability tools like Datadog, New Relic, etc.
  • 5+ years experience working with CICD tools like GHA, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.
  • Proven leadership skills with a focus on adapting and changing as the organization or environment requires
  • Deeply knowledgeable about modern infrastructure management tools and processes
  • Relentless focus on availability, security, and performance with a customer-centric mindset
  • Software engineering fundamentals in system design, architecture and tooling
  • Fluent with at least one modern programming language and a good understanding of code management principles
  • Experience architecting and maintaining large scale distributed infrastructure that spans on premise and cloud datacenters
  • Has architected microservices using virtualization or containerization
  • Experience managing stakeholder relationships, communicating with and addressing the company’s executive leadership team.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, manage and drive the Devops and Observability teams strategic direction to enable engineering teams to ship and release reliably, securely and efficiently.
  • Lead, and scale Devops and Observability teams to focus on root cause analysis, pattern identification and continuous improvement in order to optimize application performance, resilience and reliability.
  • Develop and implement SRE best practices and techniques including detecting and responding to issues, and restoring applications/services across business domains.
  • Build metrics-driven approach to ensure the stability and security of enterprise cloud services including SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
  • Establish and supervise OKRs to measure overall progress for the teams.
  • Architect and operate highly resilient systems in a multi-cloud global environment serving game and consumer services.
  • Partner with cross functional teams to support and improve our overall security posture, Patch Management, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity efforts.
  • Establish working processes with software engineering teams to support our innovation efforts.
  • Define and implement standards that will affect systems, services and multiple software environments.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building a CICD platform and/or Observability Platform from start to finish.
  • Experience with developing software for highly scalable/distributed systems
  • Experience using IaC for highly elastic workloads
  • Experience in gaming or similar industries combining large scale internet facing systems with software development and entertainment services culture
  • Familiarity with common source code repositories and infrastructure as code methodologies