Sr Manager Platform Engineering
- POSITION Sr Manager Platform Engineering LOCATION 1 day/week Chicago, IL Local highly preferred DURATION 6+ months CTH INTERVIEW TYPE Video Job Description: The Senior Manager of Platform Engineering will manage a team of highly technical engineers and platform architects who work closely with Engineering, Security, Enterprise Architecture, Shared Platforms, Application Development and Operations teams to support and enable tooling, controls and processes for driving secure and continuous delivery through SDLC automation. Good understanding of institutional operations practices and modern enterprise application development will be critical to deliver the enablement and enforcement capabilities that create the ecosystem for structured code releases and infrastructure provisioning changes with quality gates to deliver reliable, secure and optimized business capabilities for the organization. Strong leadership experience managing people, process and technology at enterprise scale.
- As the product owner, establish a CoE with stakeholders from architecture, engineering, security, app dev and shared platforms teams to bring in new thinking, tools and frameworks to accelerate software development.
Develop and own the product roadmap for the artifacts to be leveraged by all roles in SDLC for delivery business capabilities, guided by industry research and feedback.
Define and prioritize feature enhancements for enterprise capabilities as well as supporting specific portfolio/business unit needs.Champion recommendations for continuous improvement to offer competitive advantage for development teams to build applications on the platforms supported.
Create a community practice to drive adoption of best practices widely.
Strategy and Standards
- Collaborate with the enterprise stakeholders in defining strategy, standards and policies for various platforms and create an execution plan for it.
- Define and own product backlog based on the feature enhancements from the product roadmap and user community feedback and lead the execution.
- Set up a product support organization to provide post deployment support and discretionary support.
Quality Assurance
- Engage QA teams to define and execute automated test plans for the certifying the automation, template, artifacts that are published for enterprise use for software delivery.
- Define operating model through center of enablement for governing and managing platform products.
Establish KPIs and measure performance against the objectives to report and to drive compliance.
People- Lead a multi-functional team of engineers, architects, developers and others.
Coach, develop, and inspire team members to achieve their project and personal goals to develop and sustain a strong team.
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in computer science with minimum 10 years of experience in IT industry and last five years as a Platform Engineer and / or DevSecOps SRE roles 5+ years of leadership experience Operational experience with automation, orchestration, virtualization / public cloud, release pipeline, metrics collection, and clustered computing technologies Proficiency in cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Understanding of DevOps principles and tools like Jenkins, Git, Harness and Ansible.
Experience with network fundamentals and security best practices.
Deep understanding of scripting languages Python, Javascript or Go Extensive experience in defining solution architecture and complex integration architecture for large enterprise applications and systems Hands on experience in developing roadmaps, priorities, features, story outlines, writing user stories, refining product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast-paced, changing environment with variety of stakeholders.
Ability to influence actions and coordinate activity across broad cross-border, cross-business-unit, cross-functional stakeholder groups without direct authority.Good communication skills, including fluency in the languages of technology and marketing, and the ability to effectively communicate with executive leadership.
Experience managing strategic partners and vendors.
Industry-recognized certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer, Google Cloud Certified Professional Engineer, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or DevOps Engineer Expert, preferred.