High Salary Manager Engineering

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities

- Employee management including but not limited to sourcing, interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions, onboarding, establishing goals, assigning or delegating work, providing on-the-job training, giving guidance to staff, conducting performance evaluations, approving paid time-off (PTO), developing performance improvement plans, and taking disciplinary action.
- Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect immediate organization(s).
- Act as an advisor to subordinate(s) to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems.
- Ensures milestones are being met; monitor, track and make visible
- Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements; provides input into budgeting.
- May meet with customers to communicate and review product features
- May communicates product roadmaps and project status to staff, senior management, and other product teams.
- Evaluates and reviews new technologies on their applicability to product architecture and design.
- Prioritizes product features resulting in the correct delivery of needed functionality.
- Coordinates with development service groups resulting in greater communication and higher probability of on time delivery of products.
- Responsible for upholding F5s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Evaluate and solve software failures
- Improve the existing functionality
- Work cross functionally integrating, testing and debugging issues with existing system wide software
- Collaborate with team members and technical leads
- Build tools and infrastructure to improve F5s components and features
- Perform other related duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Essential:

- Excellent analytic / trouble-shooting and debugging skills
- Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communications
- Programming efficiency
- Strong networking fundamentals and experience dealing with different layers of the networking stack. Experience with network and web technologies such as TCP, UDP, IP, HTTP, L4-L7, DNS and such
- SRE/Devops on Linux & Kubernetes: Demonstrate excellent, hands-on knowledge of deploying workloads and managing lifecyle on kubernetes, with practical experience on debugging issues.
- On-call Experience in managing everyday OPs for production environments. Experience in production alerts management and using dashboards to debug issues.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Prior experience in deploying workloads and managing lifecycle on any cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Knowledge and expertise in software engineering methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams
- Good working experience in Cloud based product development.
- Good knowledge of microservices architecture and API design and development best practices
- Working knowledge of development and deployment across multiple cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMWare and OpenStack
- Knowledge or experience with Docker containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
- Able to collaborate and thrive in a dynamic environment
- Passion for learning new technologies, and a track record of doing so
- Track record of mentoring engineering staff
- Proven ability to deliver products with highest quality, on time and within budget.
- Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.
- Extensive experience with bug tracking and triage systems
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrated excellence in all written communications.
- Duties may require being on call periodically or working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends). Duties may require the ability to travel via automobile or airplane, approximately 10% of the time spent traveling.

Nice-to-have:

- Experience programming in Linux networking and OS internals
- Agile based software development methodologies such as Kanban, Scrum
- GipOps: Experience with helm charts/customizations and gitops tools like ArgoCD/FluxCD.
- Experience with Disaster Recovery and Migration is a plus

Qualifications

Typically requires a minimum of 14 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 12 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 10 year of experience; or equivalent work experience.

Environment

- Empowered Work Culture: Experience an environment that values autonomy, fostering a culture where creativity and ownership are encouraged.
- Continuous Learning: Benefit from the mentorship of experienced professionals with solid backgrounds across diverse domains, supporting your professional growth.
- Team Cohesion: Join a collaborative and supportive team where you'll feel at home from day one, contributing to a positive and inspiring workplace.

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