What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineering Manager-HCP Terraform Foundations-Production Engineering position at IBM?
Introduction
The HCP Terraform Foundations Engineering group is composed of SREs and Software Engineers working on the HCP Terraform hosted service. Our group ensures that the platform’s underlying infrastructure, data stores, and core foundational services are reliable, performant, and robust. We work closely with the engineering teams that ship features for both HCP Terraform and the Terraform Enterprise on-premise product.
As our group expands, we’re seeking a manager to lead our Production Engineering team. This team is responsible for the underlying health and monitoring for HCP Terraform, as well as ensuring that our production services are scalable, reliable, and performant.
This manager will be instrumental in shaping the identity of the team and their accomplishments, and will directly support the career growth and technical achievements of several talented and experienced engineers.
If this sounds like an interesting opportunity, we’d love to meet you! We have a large footprint and a quickly-growing user base, with lots of interesting problems and plenty of opportunities for growth and development.
Your Role And Responsibilities
What you’ll do…
What you’ll need…
What’s nice to have…
The HCP Terraform Foundations Engineering group is composed of SREs and Software Engineers working on the HCP Terraform hosted service. Our group ensures that the platform’s underlying infrastructure, data stores, and core foundational services are reliable, performant, and robust. We work closely with the engineering teams that ship features for both HCP Terraform and the Terraform Enterprise on-premise product.
As our group expands, we’re seeking a manager to lead our Production Engineering team. This team is responsible for the underlying health and monitoring for HCP Terraform, as well as ensuring that our production services are scalable, reliable, and performant.
This manager will be instrumental in shaping the identity of the team and their accomplishments, and will directly support the career growth and technical achievements of several talented and experienced engineers.
If this sounds like an interesting opportunity, we’d love to meet you! We have a large footprint and a quickly-growing user base, with lots of interesting problems and plenty of opportunities for growth and development.
Your Role And Responsibilities
What you’ll do…
- Provide mission and direction for the team:
- Work with leadership and product partner to develop a roadmap which supports the organization’s yearly goals for scale and growth objectives
- Lead the engineers in continuing to deliver forward-thinking projects and major improvements to our reliability and stability
- Foster the team’s growth:
- Mentor and coach the team, promoting their career growth and professional development
- Expand the team when needed, recruiting and interviewing new engineers which complement the team’s skills and experience
- Foster diversity, inclusion, and equity within the team and across our group
- Advocate for the team and their work:
- Work with other managers to understand shared dependencies, roadmap items, and potential blockers for the team
- Increase visibility for the team and publicly celebrate the team’s accomplishments
What you’ll need…
- 5 years leading engineering teams for large-scale SaaS platforms
- An interest in building a support structure for engineers to help them succeed at their job
- A dedication to modeling and supporting a positive and healthy work life balance
- Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership
- Experience managing a remote distributed team of reasonable size
What’s nice to have…
- Experience with managing both development and platform/operational (i.e. Site Reliability Engineering) workstreams
- Qualified opinions about driving observability, reliability, and availability for large-scale distributed systems
- Exposure to systems software and services written in Go and Ruby on Rails monoliths