Senior Software Engineering Manager, IaaS (Cluster Management) (REMOTE)

$120,000 - $261,500/Yr

Geico - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - San Francisco, CA

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About the position

Our Senior Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve, and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. A Senior Manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the speed of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The Cluster Management team's mission is to bring to reality the next-generation container cluster management and orchestration platform on Kubernetes that is secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building and maintaining highly secure cluster management platform based on Kubernetes running on private and public clouds.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time.
• Management responsibility for a team of Kubernetes based multi-cluster management platform including policy, compliance, risk, governance, operations, and support.
• Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms.
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives.
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas.
• Report on your team's progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery.
• Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members.
• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement.
• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust.
• Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals.
• Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals.

Requirements

• Software and system design knowledge and experience.
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.).
• Knowledge in Operating Systems, Linux, Virtual Machines, Container (Docker/Containerd), Cluster Management (Kubernetes) technologies including running on private and public cloud infrastructure.
• Development and Management experience in one or all the following: Cluster and container management based on Kubernetes running in private and public cloud or bare metal, Multi-cluster networking based on service mesh like ISTIO, Linkerd, Envoy or Consul, Multi-cluster metrics, observability, and operations with frameworks such as Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger.
• Experience with software development, software delivery lifecycle, application modernization, DevOps, Service/Infrastructure as Service and Operations.
• Basic understanding and managing CI/CD toolchain products like Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Anchore, SonarQube and IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
• Knowledge of API, Microservices, network and security architectures and design patterns.
• Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus.
• Demonstrated conflict management, decision making and negotiation skills.
• Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly.
• Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments.
• Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing.

Benefits

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures