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Engineering Manager

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Pune, Maharashtra
Senior level
Pune, Maharashtra
Senior level
The Engineering Manager will lead and mentor the engineering team, manage product roadmaps, ensure quality deliverables, and drive technical support and customer escalations.
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Job Title: Engineering Manager

Reporting To : Director of Engineering

Member of : Engineering Group

About Us:

Platform9: A Better Way to Go Cloud Native
Platform9 empowers enterprises with a faster, better, and more cost-effective way to go cloud native. Its fully automated container management and orchestration solution delivers cost control, resource reduction, and speed of application deployment. Its unique always-on assurance™ technology ensures 24/7 non-stop operations through remote monitoring, automated upgrades, and proactive problem resolution. Innovative enterprises like Juniper, Kingfisher Plc, Mavenir, Rackspace, and Cloudera achieve 4x faster time-to-market, up to 90% reduction in operational costs, and 99.99% uptime. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by leading investors.
In addition to serving a healthy base of customers with our core managed kubernetes and managed openstack product offerings, we have recently launched a new product, EMP, that maximizes EKS utilization and reduces costs. We are looking for an engineering manager to own, improve, and deliver Platform9’s leading product(s). 
Responsibilities

  • Work with product managers and engineering leads to execute the product roadmap.
  • Hire, mentor and guide engineers on the team on technical tasks and career development
  • Work with the customer support team to help manage customer escalations
  • Have an unwavering commitment to quality deliverables
  • 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

  • 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.

Benefits and Perks:

Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognize their whole person. Platform 9's benefits and perks have been carefully designed to ensure that we take care of an employee's emotions and physical well-being. Many of our benefits extend to families, who form  a significant part of our well-being at work

Please note that benefits change by country.

  • Competitive Compensation and Equity
  • Medical Healthcare for you and your family
  • Generous Time-Off Programs & Annual Year-End Shutdown 
  • Hybrid Work Model
  • Wellness Benefits
  • Professional Development/Global certifications
  • Reward and Recognition Programs
  • Team-building activities
  • Hackathon 
  • Company-wide programs

Our benefits have been carefully selected, keeping in mind employee requirements and personal situations now and in the future.

Top Skills

Go
Kubernetes
Node.js
Openstack
Python

Platform9 Pune, Mahārāshtra, IND Office

Smartworks M Agile Building, 7th Floor, Pan Card Club Road, Baner, Pune, Maharashtra , India, 411045

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