SRE Manager, Platform Engineering

Summary

Join Vonage's Platform Engineering Team and lead a team in developing and managing the company's internal developer platform. You will participate in architecture discussions, maintain the platform in development and production, manage and expand the team, ensure cost-effective resource use, and manage the performance of a highly skilled team. Responsibilities include ensuring platform security and compliance, and driving continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience leading platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE teams, experience with Kubernetes and AWS, and a strong understanding of DevSecOps. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required. Vonage offers attractive benefits, including discretionary time off, private medical insurance, educational assistance, and parental leave.

Requirements

• 3 years of experience leading platform engineering, DevOps or SRE teams
• Proven experience leading Staff+ level engineers
• Experience managing remote-first autonomous teams
• Expertise maintaining a Kubernetes based platform with CNCF tooling
• Significant experience working within the AWS environment
• An understanding of DevSecOps processes
• Leadership, ability to develop and grow your team
• A robust results-driven mindset and dynamic approach
• A customer-driven focus and flexibility to succeed in a fast-paced environment
• Creativity and ideas - continuously pushing to improve Vonage’s technical environment
• Passion for delivering excellence
• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science and/or related work experience

Responsibilities

• Lead a team in the development and management of the Vonage Internal Developer Platform
• Embrace Vonage culture and lead by example
• Participate in architecture discussions within the Vonage Architecture forum to ensure we’re providing the best solutions to the technical challenges within Vonage
• Maintain the platform both in the development and production environments. This includes participating in and maintaining the oncall rotation for your team
• Manage and expand the team through hiring and coaching
• Ensure alignment with teams hosted within the PaaS platform are using Vonage resources in the most cost effective methods
• Manage performance of the highly skilled team with Staff+ level engineers
• The security of the PaaS platform in conjunction with the Security teams
• All compliance requirements for the PaaS platform
• Continuous improvement of the PaaS platform

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Hashicorp Nomad and Consul
• AWS and Kubernetes certifications
• Experience within the Google GCP Environment

Benefits

• Attractive Discretionary Time Off
• Private Medical Insurance with optional dependent coverage
• Educational Assistance Reimbursement Program
• Opportunities for reimbursement for conferences, trainings, and other personal development events
• Maternity and Paternity Leave