Manager, Cloud Platforms

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Develop a world class globally distributed cloud team of devops and SRE and directly responsible for the availability and reliability of Rocket Lawyer’s cloud platform
• Own Cloud operations, infrastructure and deployments including CI / CD pipelines, monitoring, and budgeting
• Manage the recruitment and on-boarding of new starters
• Facilitate well thought-out technical decisions
• Promote best practices to the wider engineering community
• Design and develop tools to improve developer productivity
• Lead the incident management process to ensure smooth running of systems with minimal customer impact
• Creates a culture of continuous learning from mistakes  
• Advocate for and advances modern software development practices (CI/CD, test automation etc.)Is passionate about constantly improving the way the team is working
• Support the engineering team to help them perform at their highest level
• Always look to bring out the best in others
• Take a pragmatic approach to balancing short- and long-term priorities
• Collaborate with our feature development teams to get new services and APIs to market using the CI/CD tools and processes your team provides
• Lead development of public cloud strategy and practice

Requirements

• 7+ years experience building and managing high performing engineering teams
• 5+ years experience supporting production systems that serve 100k + users
• Experience within an Agile Software delivery environment
• Proficient in leading engineers to deliver good quality and clean code
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices, including coding standards, source control management, build processes, and testing
• Experience in recruiting and hiring engineers
• Passionate about coaching engineers
• Passionate about software security, performance and scaling
• Demonstrated experience with implementing and supporting CI/CD tooling and working with development teams to roll out and manage projects
• Experience with managing highly available production-facing e-commerce web sites
• Knowledge of monitoring systems and frameworks (nagios, sensu, graphite, etc.)
• Experience with build automation (jenkins, go, cloudbuild, cruisecontrol, etc.)
• Experience in designing / building scalable, highly available, secure cloud solutions.
• Experience with working with APIs and microservices

Benefits & Perks