Platform Engineering Manager

Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide
Why this role matters

The Vonage Platform Engineering Team is responsible for providing an industry leading PaaS internal development platform. This platform is critical to the success of Vonage's technology teams and the simplification & standardization of our infrastructure. Vonage in partnership with Ericsson is defining new products and services that will power networks around the world.

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What Will You'll Do
In this role at Vonage, you'll be responsible for the following:

• Lead a team in the development and management of the Vonage Internal Developer Platform
• Embrace Vonage culture and lead by example
• Participate in architecture discussions within the Vonage Architecture forum to ensure we're providing the best solutions to the technical challenges within Vonage
• Maintain the platform both in the development and production environments. This includes participating in and maintaining the oncall rotation for your team
• Manage and expand the team through hiring and coaching
• Ensure alignment with teams hosted within the PaaS platform are using Vonage resources in the most cost effective methods
• Manage performance of the highly skilled team with Staff+ level engineers
• The security of the PaaS platform in conjunction with the Security teams.
• All compliance requirements for the PaaS platform.
• Continuous improvement of the PaaS platform.

What Will You Bring

• 3 years of experience leading platform engineering, DevOps or SRE teams
• Proven experience leading Staff+ level engineers
• Experience managing remote-first autonomous teams
• Expertise maintaining a Kubernetes based platform with CNCF tooling
• Significant experience working within the AWS environment
• An understanding of DevSecOps processes
• Leadership, ability to develop and grow your team
• A robust results-driven mindset and dynamic approach.
• A customer-driven focus and flexibility to succeed in a fast-paced environment.
• Creativity and ideas - continuously pushing to improve Vonage's technical environment
• Passion for delivering excellence.
• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science and/or related work experience.

Nice To Have, But Not Required

• Experience with Hashicorp Nomad and Consul.
• AWS and Kubernetes certifications
• Experience within the Google GCP Environment.

What's in it for you

• Attractive Discretionary Time Off
• Private Medical Insurance with optional dependent coverage
• Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program
• Opportunities for reimbursement for conferences, trainings, and other personal development events
• Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Ask recruiter for country specific information

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.

There's no perfect candidate.
You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you.

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Who We Are
Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.