Cloud Engineering Manager

The BootStack team designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers. From Kubernetes to OpenStack and everything in-between, you'll be working with the latest technology in a fast-paced engineering environment. As a Cloud Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will be responsible for managing the engineers that oversee day-to-day Managed Service of customer environments, including customer service management, managed services operations and consistent product improvement engineering. Collaboration with customers, product engineering, and operations is critical to success.

As an Engineering Manager you will:

Manage a growing engineering team to optimise the quality and velocity of both development and operations
Identify and measure team health indicators
Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes
Represent the BootStack team with respect to stakeholders, customers, and external teams
Ensure proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables
Work to meet service level agreements with customer deployments around the globe
Deliver quality managed services in a consistent, timely manner

The successful Engineering Manager candidate will have:

Bachelors (or equivalent) education in a technology field
Proven track record of professional experience of either software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar and/or managing operations teams
Proven experience with OpenStack
Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality
Experience with Linux system administration, Ubuntu/Debian a plus
Strong communication and cooperation skills
Experience with agile software development methodologies
Experience working in and managing distributed teams
Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems
Experience with cloud topologies and technologies
Travel to team and company events and customer meetings, roughly 20% or less

What we offer you

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events