DevOps Engineering Manager at Deimos

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineering Manager to join our team. You will report to the SRE Director and work closely with our project management and software engineering teams. Site Reliability / DevOps is part of our core competencies. You will be part of a highly-skilled team that continuously innovates and delivers high-value solutions to clients across various industries on all public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc). Technologies we work with daily include Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitOps, OPA, Calico, Linkerd, just to name a few.

What you'll be doing in this role

Project leadership and direction

• Chair meetings and guide technical discussions with clients.
• Help build technical roadmaps for clients and provide feedback to CTO, Director of Site Reliability Engineering, and Project Managers on project status.
• Coordinate project timelines and assist Project Managers with team resource scheduling.
• Ensure that all project work within the team is tracked on the backlog and that it’s always up-to-date.
• Facilitate and run agile ceremonies with internal and external teams.
• Work across the Engineering department to improve and optimise engineering processes.

Team Management

• Retain a team of exceptional SREs that live the Deimos culture.
• Manage team performance by having continuous quality conversations and formulating personal development and growth paths.  
• Formulate quarterly goals in collaboration with team members.
• Hold regular 1:1s with team members.
• Focus on enabling a psychologically safe team environment where all remote team members feel included and connected.   
• Be a positive leader and mentor ensuring team members acquire necessary skills (technical and non-technical), in line with business and personal development needs.
• Ensure that the team has the capabilities required to deliver on projects, and drive recruitment of new team members when required.
• Hold team members accountable for submitting accurate timesheets on time. 

What it takes to succeed in this role:

• Understand the design and build principles of cloud-native engineering such as, but not limited to,

1. SDLC including CI/CD best practices
2. Observability Practices
3. Containerization and microservices principles
4. Automation via reusable components and code
5. Familiar with major cloud providers and their service offerings
6. Proven ability to identify problems and formulate troubleshooting plans
7. Strong understanding of Incident Management

• At least 5 years experience in Site Reliability | DevOps Engineering team management
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• Confidence working as a remote Manager
• Ability to form a good relationship with clients and team members
• Consistently keep up to date with Site Reliability | DevOps best practices, trends, and innovation
• Lead with humility and learn from team members