Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RoadRunner is dedicated to accelerating the road to Zero Waste™ through innovative waste operations. They are seeking a Platform Engineering Manager to lead the platform engineering team, focusing on cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while fostering a culture of ownership and teamwork.
Responsibilities
- Manage, lead & mentor our Platform Engineers
- Design, build, manage and monitor the infrastructure of RoadRunner technology
- Collaborate with product and engineering managers to define technical roadmaps and help guide our technology north star
- Maintain current awareness of marketplace trends, both technical and process improvements
Skills
- 7+ years professional experience in Platform engineering, Dev(Sec)Ops or related field of engineering
- 3+ years experience as an engineering manager or team lead
- Strong technical background in platform engineering, with hands-on experience in relevant or similar technologies (AWS services and ecosystem, Terraform, Docker, DataDog)
- Experience building and managing web application infrastructure at scale
- Experience creating technical scopes, technical requirements documents and technical roadmaps
- The ability to communicate technical concepts and decisions to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience overseeing and implementing technical processes such as pull request reviews, code coverage, continuous integration and deployment, and cloud platform management
- The ability to debug complex technical issues
- Passionate about business results and quality, with a strong sense of accountability, metrics and ownership
- Strategic thinker with the ability to grasp the tactical details
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, is dynamic, and can capture a group's interest and maintain it as well as the ability to facilitate meetings with diverse and sometimes conflicting points of view
- Ability to manage multiple projects, multi-task, and effectively prioritize assignments with minimal supervision
- Ability to influence and collaborate at all levels and across all functions of the organization
- Proven ability to organize/manage multiple priorities coupled with the flexibility to quickly adapt to ever changing business needs
- Strong analytical and problem solving. Solid decision making in a timely manner
- Enthusiasm for our sustainability driven mission
- Preferred experience in data engineering and application architecture
- Preferred ML Ops experience, or otherwise willing to learn
- Preferred experience hiring and growing an engineering team
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Core communication hours: 9am-6pm ET / 8am - 5pm CT / 8am -5pm MT / 7am - 5pm PT
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