Engg/Sr Engg Manager

Job Title: Engg/Sr Engg Manager

Reporting To : Director, Engineering

Member of : Engineering Group

About Us:

Platform9: Private Clouds Made Easy
Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. 

Enterprises are struggling to find a better way to run their cloud infrastructure: on the one hand, they have woken up to the staggering true cost of public cloud providers, and on the other hand, they are also painfully aware of daunting virtualization costs and engineering complexity of running a private cloud. Platform9 provides the solution: a better way to deploy, operate and scale private clouds.

The company’s flagship product, Private Cloud Director, delivers an open, comprehensive private cloud platform that is developer-friendly and cost-effective, while enabling enterprise IT teams with critical capabilities they need to modernize their legacy virtualized infrastructure. 

Platform9 was founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers and has over 20,000 nodes in production at some of the world's largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency.

All this means that the future for Platform9, for our customers, and for our team is bright and exciting. We’re big enough that we have survived many market shifts and economic climates, and we are small enough that we retain a high energy start-up culture. We value customer obsession, innovation, openness, bias towards action, and speed. And we are looking to add a seasoned cloud talent to our tight-knit team.

Responsibilities

• Work with product and engineering teams to translate our product roadmap into reality at warp speed
• Hire, mentor and guide engineers on the team on technical tasks and career development
• Have an unwavering commitment to quality and delighting customers
• Work with the customer support team to help manage customer escalations
• Provide technical support to solutions team for pre-sales activities

Ideal Characteristics/Profile

• Bachelors or Masters degrees in computer science or a related discipline Extensive related work experience is also acceptable

• 10 years experience as a hands-on engineer or leader in large-scale distributed systems
• 3 years experience in a lead/management role for an infrastructure engineering team
• Built and led strong engineering teams in the distributed systems space
• Mentor and motivate team members, along with aiding their growth and advancement
• Exposure to and understanding of open-source projects
• While not limited to specific technologies, some exposure to public / private cloud-based development with the big 3 clouds, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and languages like Node.js, Python, and Golang is desirable
• Technically proficient enough to drive tradeoff evaluations and execution decisions. Dives deep and understands tradeoffs in technology and strategy decisions
• Can manage geographically distributed teams, even with small numbers of individual contributors in different locations
• Strong organizational skills: ability to manage schedule, people and cost / budget
• Culture fit: identifies with our core values
• Bar raiser - Amplifies the overall ability and productivity of the team.

Nice to have

• Scar tissue and learnings from public cloud cost over-runs or failed (or successful!) private clouds is a big plus
• Exposure to application development in the cloud-native landscape is a bonus
• Entrepreneurial bent - ability to balance growth with development
• Evangelism: interest and ability to be the spokesperson for Platform9 externally
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and the associated ecosystem
• Exposure to serverless and SaaS technologies, particularly within the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Qualifications: 

• Extensive hands-on and organization leadership experience of 8+ years
• Preferred Engineering degree from a reputed university
• Education or certification in business administration or related experience work in a technology environment leading vertical functional teams/business verticals