Are you passionate about building world-class, fast, scalable, container workloads? Are you looking for an opportunity to enable and have great impact on how developers work on these workflows? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
As a software engineering manager on the ACR team, you will be helping to lead the efforts to expand the core registry capabilities and help drive the company’s investments in securing the container supply chain. You will help to design, build, and validate various components needed to maintain, scale, and make Azure Container Registry the best choice for storing images for container workloads. The cloud is becoming ever more important to our lives, and malicious actors getting ever more sophisticated. This opportunity will allow you to be part of an overall vision to secure the supply chain for all workloads running in Azure: from code, to build, to distribution, to runtime. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will lead and join your team in both in-office and work-from-home settings in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane.
With Azure’s continued expansion and growing customer interest to shift security left, the Azure Container Registry (ACR) team is looking for a software engineer manager who can lead a team to help Azure be the most secure and most reliable cloud platform. ACR is chartered with building, storing, securing, scanning, replicating, and managing container images and artifacts with a fully managed, geo-replicated instance of OCI distribution. It is used to connect across environments, including Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Red Hat OpenShift, and across Azure services like App Service, Machine Learning, Azure Security Center, and Batch. We also own services to streamline building, testing, pushing, and deploying images securely to Azure with ACR Tasks. Our team also owns the Microsoft Artifact Registry (MAR), which is Microsoft’s primary public registry for distributing 1P and 3P images. Most recently, we’ve been working with the Open Source Community to innovate and experiment to make the registry the best cloud native multi artifact store.
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REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Demontrated experience in technical people leadership and mentorship of a team of software engineers and the ability to drive impact on the overall technical strategy
• Significant commercial experience in a software development environment
• Ability to evolve and uplift engineering practices and culture to build a world-class engineering team
• Solid understanding of cloud development principles and patterns and excellent communications skills and ability to work collaboratively across several teams
• Excellent problem-solving skills with ability to quickly adapt to new technology and go deep.
• Great curiosity and willingness to question. High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced environment.
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers and
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, Golang, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience, Or other object-oriented programming

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Experience with workload/container orchestration using Kubernetes or similar platforms and experience with container runtimes such as Docker, Rkt, runC, containers and how they are enabled by the underlying OS components”
  Role can be based in either Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  

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• Coaches and drives partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within teams for features for ACR and Secure Supply chain.
• Coaches teams and drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Coaches team members within the team in producing extensible and maintainable code.
• Lead, mentor and help other software developers grow in their career
• Coaches team to drive multiple group’s project plans, release plans, and work items in coordination with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers).
• Coaches others and acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers across products, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Our team uses a “"Follow the Sun"” model where each engineer is backed by another engineer in a different location during their shifts to avoid late night calls.
• Seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.