Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Articulate's Platform team as a Developer Experience Engineering Manager! Lead and mentor a team (4-6 engineers) in creating world-class tooling and a self-service deployment strategy. Guide the implementation of industry-leading tools and standards for software development, deployment, and testing. Manage 1:1s, conduct performance reviews, and provide professional development opportunities. Collaborate cross-functionally on release strategies and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring high-quality software releases. Maintain internal test environments and work with various teams to improve processes and tools. Stay updated on industry trends and empower the team to be self-organizing and self-healing.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering and/or Automation on a modern development team
• 5+ years in a leadership role as a senior developer, team lead, or engineering manager
• Demonstrated ability to set high standards and hold others accountable to those standards
• A strong focus on delivering results and the ability to balance business and technical requirements
• Hands on experience in deployment, version control and automation tools, with a focus on CICD technologies such as Jenkins, Ansible and Github actions
• Demonstrable experience with container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
• Proficient in programming and scripting languages, such as Python or Go
• Demonstrated experience with cloud-native monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog or Grafana
• Proven ability to review technical designs and identify opportunities for automation and delivery improvements
• Proven record of strong leadership, communication, team development, problem solving and organization skills
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities effectively while helping the team to work in a similar way

Responsibilities

• Be an example of our HCO by fostering a culture of collaboration and automation by enhancing the efficiency and productivity of our software delivery process
• Guide the definition and implementation of industry-leading tools and standards for building, promoting, deploying and testing features
• Use your extensive experience in both tooling and software deployment systems to grow and mentor the team in developer experience best practices
• Manage 1:1s with the team to set goals, conduct performance reviews, and provide professional development opportunities specific to the needs of each team member
• Provide coaching, feedback, and plans to your reports to both improve team capabilities and to facilitate career growth
• Work cross-functionally to develop and execute a comprehensive release strategy that is seamlessly integrated with the SDLC and continuous delivery processes, ensuring software is consistently deployed through automated methods
• Oversee the design, implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient software delivery
• Define, implement and enforce quality gates throughout the software development and release process and ensure all software releases meet established quality standards before deployment
• Collaborate with security and development to continually refine our testing procedures to ensure a high standard of quality
• In collaboration with Site Reliability Engineering, manage and maintain internal test environments and implement policies for access, infrastructure, data and costs
• Provide release-level metrics and operating SLAs to inform the release decision-making processes
• Work with internal teams to continually evaluate and improve our existing processes and tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
• Partner with architecture, platform and Site Reliability Engineering teams to align on long-term goals, set team goals and ensure accountability to those goals
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our practices remain relevant
• Guide the team to become self-organizing and self-healing so as to empower them to move quickly and iterate

Benefits

• $163,900 - $245,900 a year
• This position is also bonus eligible
• This is a US-based role and can be performed remotely from anywhere within the United States