SDE Manager - DevOps

at  IBM

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job - it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Do you love leading a world-class engineering team that writes clean code, uses modern architecture, and ensures rapid value delivery? Are you a mentor and coach who helps good engineers become truly great? We’re looking for an engineering manager like you to join our growing team! Apptio portfolio is powered by dozens of microservices teams with “you build it you own it” culture. We are forming a new Developer Productivity team that will enable Apptio service teams to accelerate production deployment with confidence. The charter of the team is to create a reference implementation for deployment and testing pipelines and enable the service teams to maintain the DevOps culture without recreating the wheel.
Apptio operates a cloud-based Kubernetes platform. Apptio products are built with a wide variety of technologies: AWS services, Golang, React, Python with deployment pipelines standardized on GitHub Actions and Argo. The new team is expected to take Apptio delivery to the next level and unlock one touch automated deployments across multiple dependent services, rapid cloud and region expansion and execution of DR.
What you will be doing:
Lead our engineering team and collaborate with other engineering managers toward the mutual goal – rapid production deployments with confidence. Establish KPIs and keep the team accountable in meeting them. Use your skills as a mentor, guide, and facilitator to raise the performance of the team.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2 years managing a team of software engineers
• 5 years of experience delivering cloud software
• Proven ability to deliver to roadmap commitments in an agile environment
• Experience working with remote teams, both onshore and offshore
• Track record of raising dev team performance – via assessing talent, mentoring others, facilitating technical discussions, and providing candid feedback
• Ability to drive large initiatives by collaborating across multiple teams
• Passion for working with internal customers (service owners), product management, and senior management to deliver value
• BS in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands-on experience in building and adapting large-scale CI/CD processes.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or Openshift configuration (at the app/service level)
• Experience developing tools and platforms to accelerate and empower engineers.
• Expertise in one of the programming / scripting technologies (golang, bash, python)
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Terragrunt)
• Hands-on experience with Test automation
• Understanding of GitOps practices and expertise with CI/CD automation platforms s such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts (config, API’s, hooks, etc.)
• Strong understanding of DevOps best practices
• General Cloud Experience (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Database Management System (DBMS) experience a plus, Database migrations (liquibase), managing backups, etc.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with various web application development technologies and tools, e.g., Golang NodeJS, REST, CSS, and Python.
• Great communication, both written and verbal, appropriately calibrated to the audience
• Experience engaging with senior leadership to report on and adjust deliverables

About Business UnitIBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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