Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Axon and lead a team of SRE engineers as an SRE Engineering Manager, focusing on the operations and uptime of large-scale platforms. This remote Canada-based role requires 8+ years of experience managing cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, etc.) and Kubernetes platforms. You will drive team execution, lead technical direction, collaborate with various teams, manage engineers' careers, and coach for continuous improvement. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership, technical, and communication skills, along with experience in CI/CD, observability tools, and managed languages like Python or Go. Axon values diversity and encourages applications from all qualified individuals.

Requirements

• 8+ years of applicable experience
• A track record of planning and delivering on multiple overlapping projects spanning several months
• Experience implementing an engineering process that emphasized security, availability, scalability, and operational discipline
• Experience managing cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or similar
• Experience operating in Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar
• Experience using managed languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or similar
• Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms and observability tools
• Experience designing tooling to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems
• Empathy to support the needs of software engineers

Responsibilities

• Drive the execution of your team by leading planning, prioritization, stand-ups, and team retro meetings
• Lead the technical direction of the team through architectural discussions and code reviews
• Work with product managers, senior engineers, and client teams to get ‘ahead of the curve' and explore new opportunities
• Join forces with recruiting to hire a top-notch engineering team
• Manage engineers and their careers with 1:1s and performance reviews
• Coach your team for continuous improvements
• Lead large scale projects that impact multiple engineering teams
• Execute and deliver new features and improvements to Axon’s engineering teams on a regular basis