Manager, Software Engineering

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Who We Are...
When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...
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Come join our team!
CNN is hiring a Software Engineering Manager in DevOps. This is a great opportunity for an individual that is passionate about maintaining and building upon a great DevOps culture with engineering teams building News products.
The CNN DevOps team is small but mighty. We help multiple cross-functional product teams do operations well by supporting DevOps practices and by building and supporting platforms, tools, and software libraries.
We are experts in cloud infrastructure services, networking and operations and serve as consultants to CNN's world-class development teams.
We believe in infrastructure as code and in utilizing modern software development practices for operations. We promote automation and zero-downtime deployments.
We subscribe to blameless post-mortems as primarily about learning.
We are strong partners for security.
We believe if you ship it you run it. That includes cross-functional product teams having the access to develop and operate free of gatekeepers.
As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for people management for a team of 4 experienced DevOps engineers with near term opportunity for expansion.
You will provide support for the individuals you manage to advance their careers and give them the valuable feedback they need to grow. You will help identify stretch goals, areas of growth, and opportunities for them to shine within the organization. As a technical leader directly on the team, you will work with cross functional partners and stakeholders on activities such as planning, technical strategy, quality and delivery, with the ultimate goal of delivering products that our customers love.
In this global world, we value your ability to work independently, connect genuinely with teammates, and allocate time sensibly while communicating with a high emotional intelligence and empathy. We are enriched by the diversity of approach and perspective across our team and are excited to deepen our understanding with your contributions. The opportunity to put an amazing consumer experience in the hands of a large audience motivates us to move quickly and put our best work forward. If this resonates with you, we look forward to meeting you!
The Daily

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Support the engineers on the team by coaching, setting goals, and providing regular feedback.
• Facilitate team ceremonies - daily stand ups, team meetings, retrospectives, etc.
• Lead or be involved in design, discovery, technical planning, and status discussions within your team, where you'll help set direction and context, and identify any gaps or blockers.
• Be involved in discussions around high level planning, roadmaps, and status with teams across the organization.
• Contribute technically by performing code reviews, providing guidance with

implementation, or writing code directly.
The Essentials

• Direct experience managing and growing engineering team members.
• 5 years of experience on a software development or an operations team for strategic products.
• 10 years of overall industry experience in software development or operations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and experience in effectively communicating with a wide range of technical and non-technical job functions within an organization.
• Experience with hiring and onboarding new team members.
• Experience building, testing, shipping, and maintaining highly performant consumer applications that adhere to coding best practices.
• Demonstrated success in working with a team to deliver high quality software in an iterative, predictable, and sustainable way.
• Demonstrated proficiency with the core technologies we use: Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, CI/CD, Git, Git workflows, Terraform, Unix shell scripting, TCP/IP networking, and Internet protocols such as DNS and HTTP as well as CDNs.
• You are a polyglot when it comes to computer programming languages. You know several and pick them up quickly. At CNN you will find JavaScript, Python, Go, and others and the DevOps team dives into them all.
• You lead by example, building trust through every interaction.

Nice to haves:

• Strong background in cybersecurity is a plus
• Building and operating media websites at scale
• Demonstrated success in rapidly learning new technologies, languages, or frameworks.
• Familiarity with a wide range of languages, frameworks, platforms, and/or SDKs.

About you:

• You are excited to learn and ready to lead new challenges
• You are excited to mentor and grow engineers.
• You are an excellent communicator capable of leading technical conversations with non-technical peers
• You are excited to add positively to the culture of CNN, both from an interpersonal level and from a code improvement standpoint.

How We Get Things Done...
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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