DevOps Engineering Manager

Vonage Engineering Mission:

We embody the notion of what's next now! We envision, develop and manage technology to connect the world. Our team brings excellence, passion, creativity and curiosity to the job. We look at the business environment and technologies in new and challenging ways, striving to develop and deliver integrated whole-system solutions to meet our customers’ ever-changing needs.

What you'll do:

We are seeking a skilled and experienced DevOps Engineering Manager to manage a team of multi-discipline DevOps engineers.

• • Understand the objectives of the business and department to ensure focused delivery of the team.

  • Support individual engineer development to grow capability and skillsets in line with business needs and personal aspirations.

  • Run regular individual 121 sessions, assist in OKR definition and review, run regular performance reviews.

  • Coordinate team ceremonies including standups, retrospective, sprint planning, sprint reviews and sprint demos.

  • Maintain the flow of work, driving to ensure transparency and predictability of delivery.

  • Maintain and groom the backlog to ensure good health and work with stakeholders to assess order.

  • Work with the team to perform work breakdown, estimation and assess delivery approaches to meet business requirements.

  • Manage processes to ensure software is maintained, at appropriate supported version levels and plan this work into the roadmap.

  • Be a DevOps champion and encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing and engagement in activities such as hack-a-thons, knowledge sharing and blogs.

  • Assess team capabilities and ensure breadth and depth of skills are maintained to support the department by encouraging pairing, shadowing and secondments.

  • Be an ambassador for DevOps. Engage, Promote and Celebrate the work accomplished together on delivering value.

    Skills:

    A background with a cross section of the following technologies would be beneficial;

    • AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Config Management, ELK stack, Grafana, OpsGenie, Python

    
    
    

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience as a DevOps Manager or as a Tech Lead.

• Leadership and ability to guide, grow and coach a team.

• Track record of working with stakeholders to build a roadmap.

• Experience of developing a team and nurturing a strong culture of integrity.

• Adaptable and the ability to flex to meet changing business requirements.

• Infuse an “owners mindset” into everything we do.

• A solid understanding of AWS Cloud Architecture.

• Experience working at scale on production infrastructure.

• Knowledge with Infrastructure as Code provisioning and configuration management.

• Knowledge with the operation of Microservices infrastructure.

• Knowledge with CI/CD tooling