Sr Manager, Systems Engineering Management

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

What you get to do in this role:

• Manage the quarterly and annual planning, team objectives, individual goals, deliverables, hiring, development plans, and performance reviews.
• Provide technical guidance for systems optimization opportunities and participate in architectural reviews.
• Assess risks, vulnerabilities and mitigations of existing systems to ensure these systems are highly available, operationally sound, perform at scale and exceed customer expectation.
• Collaborate with peer teams on complex, global engineering efforts to ensure architecture agreement, resource coordination and implementation timelines.
• Represent the global Systems Engineering team to both internal and external stakeholders.

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• 14+ years' experience leading systems/software/hardware development and Infra engineering.
• Deep background in Linux systems architecture and engineering on a global scale is a must.
• Fluency with the components of infrastructure including hardware platforms, OS, virtualization, Azure public cloud, and web applications and databases.
• Prior experience in software development/engineering, release management, DevOps and managing large-scale server infrastructure.
• Extensive experience in Infrasturcture Engg, Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP etc. 
• Experience with configuration management platforms at scale.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Work cross-functionally to build consensus and drive complex projects and issues to completion. 

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements. 

Accommodations

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact [email protected] for assistance. 

Export Control Regulations

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