Platform Engineering Manager Job Description
Platform engineering manager
provides senior level support and leadership within our core technologies which include Java, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and micro services.
Platform Engineering Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Build for performance
Maintain existing Player Platform
Coach and mentor team on engineering best practices
Provide strategic leadership for player team and team members
You will lead all engineering initiatives related to Windows platforms
In the course of that, you will work closely with and have the support of our product management, design, server, encoding and content security teams
You will partner with our Android and iOS teams to build architectures that leverage the unique properties of each platform where appropriate while sharing as much design as possible
Lead and manage the team of software and systems engineers that build and maintain the big data infrastructure platform at HomeAway
Drive the digital strategy by leveraging metrics and insights while championing a data first culture
Act as a liaison between products and data teams to translate product requirements into technical specifications for data sourcing efforts
Platform Engineering Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Platform Engineering Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, PMI, PMP, CPM, DNS, CISA, ITIL
Education for Platform Engineering Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the platform engineering manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Business, Management, Technology, Mathematics, Education
Skills for Platform Engineering Manager
Desired skills for platform engineering manager include:
Ansible
Terraform several monitoring tools and frameworks
UNIX and TCP/IP network fundamentals
AWS and ReactJS
At least one programming language / framework commonly used at Connected Home
Cisco technologies
Common Amazon Web Services
Critical Issue Process and Product Safety Alert Process
Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Databases
Desired experience for platform engineering manager includes:
Exceptional relationship building skills with strong ability to influence others
Understand the Aria architecture in depth and be able to explain and pitch our product to engineers, program managers and other technical / non-technical roles
Be the expert in the real world usage of all our services that we expose real time aggregation, indexing, pub-sub and map-reduce, developing robust samples and education materials for these services
Walk into a room of engineers and instil technical confidence by clearly explaining and walking through all our services and the value proposition they bring, helping teams pick the right offering within Aria for their scenarios
Be competent in our SDK usage across all the platforms we support including C#, C++, Objective C, JavaScript and be able to talk at the developer level about instrumentation on these platforms
Drive end to end pilot programs for new services from concept to delivery working closely with the engineering team, being the first customer, building samples and proof of concepts and bringing the new features to market
Platform Engineering Manager Examples
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Platform Engineering Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of platform engineering manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for platform engineering manager
- Build and deploy an internal event-based code deployment system similar to AWS Lambda or Google Functions
- Act as the software guardian
- Define and document policies, procedures, and standards related to supported platforms and applications
- Actively writing software as a technical leader on the team
- Fostering a supportive environment that will allow engineers to do their best work
- Reviewing code and leading small group discussions about engineering issues
- Be an advocate of DevOps working practices to promote and foster a culture of collaboration between our internal engineering and operations teams
- Drive enhancements of our Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) capability to increase throughput and reduce manual effort
- Manage and participate in the day-to-day management activities for your team of permanent and temporary resources
- Foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork amongst a cross-functional, multi-project, multi-discipline team
Qualifications for platform engineering manager
- Work closely with our program management team to drive prioritization of new features and help define the long term roadmap
- Drive the design of customer-facing features and be a technical authority on these projects
- Substantial experience with large scale cloud services (Azure or competing platform)
- Experience with data, analytics, and related technologies
- Highly effective leadership and communication
- Strong experience with large-scale software engineering
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Platform Engineering Manager Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of platform engineering manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for platform engineering manager
- Lead and Manage IT Staff of Engineers and Administrators
- Lead and Manage IT projects
- Develop and manage operational and capital budgets
- Administration of Windows, Linux, AIX, Unix, Series-I/AS400 server platforms
- Administration and support of large data center compute and storage environments
- Management and assurance of enterprise back-up and restoration services
- Management and support of enterprise Storage Area Networks
- Management and support of enterprise messaging platform
- Enterprise Run The Business Database Administration functions
- Ownership of platform administration tools
Qualifications for platform engineering manager
- A few years of experience in a customer / business facing role
- Expert knowledge in web development, including fluency in JavaScript and familiarity with HTML5 APIs such as MSE/EME
- Expert knowledge and 5+ years of experience with IP video
- Expert knowledge of adaptive bitrate streaming using HLS and MPEG-DASH formats
- Expert knowledge and 5+ years of experience with design patterns, algorithms, dependency management, and version control
- Experience as a technical team leadership
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Platform Engineering Manager Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of platform engineering manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for platform engineering manager
- Ensure Change Management standard methods and procedures are followed and enforced
- Monitor and report on systems availability
- Monitor and track SLA's and implement Improvement Efforts when necessary
- Maintain system and process documentation
- Provide detailed roadmap and task tracking across our multiple efforts, keeping projects on track and re-prioritizing as appropriate
- Support ad-hoc requests to provide stakeholders with intelligent, actionable insight into the health of the team’s multiple projects
- Manage key vendor relationships that are critical to the team, including regular account review and contract negotiation
- Directs and controls activities for business or IT area including disciplines
- Provide end to end system integration service on large and complex video products
- Help operationalize software products using internally developed continuous integration and delivery technologies based on kubernetes and docker
Qualifications for platform engineering manager
- Passion for automated software testing
- Strong communication abilities, including
- Fluency in Objective-C, Swift, and Android
- Expert knowledge designing and maintaining client side libraries for iOS and Android
- 5+ years in an engineering manager role
- Solid understanding of developing and deploying Universal Windows Apps
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Platform Engineering Manager Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a platform engineering manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for platform engineering manager
- Be responsible for end to end system deployment design
- Contribute and support the team as they assist the development team by deploying and configuring all linear, time shifted and alternate content systems and components in the various lab and production environments
- Prioritize workload as the team trouble shoots and triages issues while supporting ongoing development and deployment activities
- Mentor and manage a team of 4-8 software engineers distributed around the world
- Report to an engineering director or senior manager
- Lead the completion of major initiatives on clear timelines
- Learn enough about the code to ensure that your team delivers high quality, measurable, and maintainable software
- Anticipate headcount needs for the team and recruit to fill those needs
- Develop and communicate the roadmap, scope, and risks of your team’s projects
- Work openly and build a relationship with our user base, open source community, and partners
Qualifications for platform engineering manager
- React framework
- WinJS framework
- Deploying Windows platform specific features like Cortana, Live Tiles, and Notifications
- Have shipped software on behalf to a major brand at scale
- Continuous deployment / continuous integration style software development
- You are a role model on how to distill a problem to its essence, make it simple, and make the next steps obvious
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Platform Engineering Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a platform engineering manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for platform engineering manager
- Be rewarded with growth and leadership opportunities for strong performance
- You’ll enjoy leading and inspiring a team of skilled engineers to develop the next generation of our infrastructure on our AWS based platform
- You'll partner with product management, programme management and core tooling to deliver a vision for your components which you then continuously deliver into production
- You'll balance the need to keep things running with the making time to address technical debt and long term projects
- You'll work with engineers to find projects which exploit their skills and work style, ensuring their development needs are met
- Assess performance frequently and deal promptly with under-performance whilst recognising and promoting excellence
- Rolling up your sleeves and help fix/tune/debug the code alongside your team, when needed for all systems through to production
- Code well in at least one language (even if it is not one that we use)
- Lead, coach, mentor and inspire a team of software and quality engineers to deliver highly available, globally distributed network platform solutions
- Effectively manage the delivery of the payments roadmap, providing the best-in-class scaling, availability, and operational support, enabling a WOW experience for our customers
Qualifications for platform engineering manager
- Hands on leader (50% technical / 50% management) with 7+ years developing Java based consumer facing web applications (Spring MVC, Spring WebFlow, Backbone, Bootstrap) including RESTful APIs and Service Oriented Architecture
- Strong with CMS integration and web monitoring tools such as Jahia, Splunk, Data Dog and New Relic
- Committed to quality and delivering software using industry best practices in all aspects of the software development process
- Ability to relay technical requirements to execution teams explain technical information in a consumable format for all levels of business partners and groups
- Bonus if you have prior programming experience (iOS/OSX, Ruby, Scala, Python, PHP, Go)
- A broad knowledge-base and understanding of technologies such as information retrieval, scalability, performance, resiliency, real-time systems, streaming-compute, distributed data storage systems and control systems