Rockwell Automation - Mayfield Heights, OH
posted 6 months ago
About the position
Rockwell Automation is seeking a Director to lead our Platform Automation and Developer Experience practice. This role is pivotal in enhancing the productivity and satisfaction of our developers by automating technology and compute platform components across various environments. The Director will collaborate with multiple development teams to architect, provision, monitor, and enrich development environments, ultimately aiming to improve the overall developer experience through effective platform automation. In this hands-on position, the Director will be responsible for building a dedicated team focused on automating all technology and compute platform components in both lower and production environments. This includes leading a diverse group of peers towards a unified solution framework and developing a strategy that enhances the developer experience organization-wide. The Director will ensure that stream/product aligned teams operate with substantial autonomy while fostering a culture of automation at the platform layers. The role requires a strong partnership with Rockwell's Development, Security, and Infrastructure teams to create a shared, self-service library of platform components and to establish repeatable CI/CD pipelines. The Director will also champion the automation of build and production support processes, ensuring observability in build chains and CI/CD pipelines. By establishing metrics to monitor platform products, the Director will measure developer satisfaction and productivity, advocating for developer-friendly practices and staying informed about the latest trends in developer tools and methodologies. This position reports directly to the VP of IT Infrastructure and Operations, and the successful candidate will be customer-obsessed, with a proven ability to gain the trust and cooperation of technical teams across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead and build a team dedicated to improving the developer experience through automation of technology and compute platform components.
- Develop and implement a strategy to enhance the developer experience across the organization, including infrastructure services for remote work.
- Ensure stream/product aligned teams complete work with substantial autonomy.
- Lead the creation and adoption of a shared service for CI/CD pipeline platform components to refine development workflows and encourage reuse.
- Partner with Development teams to create a shared, self-service library of platform components.
- Collaborate with Development, Security, and Infrastructure teams to create and support lower environments that improve developer experience while maintaining security.
- Champion complete build and production support automation and promote a culture of automation at platform layers.
- Build observability into build chains, CI/CD pipelines, and automations of all environments.
- Collaborate with Build/DevOps/SRE Engineers in the creation and operational support of CI/CD pipelines and templates.
- Establish metrics and monitor platform products to measure developer satisfaction and productivity.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
- Legal authorization to work in the US is required; no sponsorship for employment visas will be provided.
- Ability to travel up to 15%.
- Typically requires 12+ years of relevant leadership experience within IT.
- Experience leading systems or platform development teams.
- Track record in modern software architectures and the required underlying platforms.
- Experience leading DevSecOps teams and supporting CI/CD pipeline initiatives.
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering, MIS, or Computer Science.
- Experience with Continuous Delivery practices and Agile/SAFe methodologies across a large organization.
- Solid skills in creating Technical Roadmaps and organizing work for development teams following Scrum/Agile principles.
- Experience with innovation in platform automation and IDPs.
Benefits
- Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401k
- Paid Time Off
- Parental and Caregiver Leave
- Flexible Work Schedule
