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Nextiva is currently seeking bright and talented individual for a Platform Engineering Managerposition to join our expanding voice platform engineering team. The position is responsible for managing and leading a team of high-performing platform, DevOps and voice engineers, focused on the integration, supportability, and engineering of voice platforms. This role has a strong focus around supporting the software development organizations, interacting with, and providing systems too, in addition to co-joining on the CI/CD process of delivering carrier grade voice quality systems to our customers. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, delivery and execution excellence, and solid procedural frameworks is essential. The candidate must be self-driven, highly motivated, have a sharp eye and attention to detail, responds quickly when needed, and has sound decision making skills.
As aPlatformEngineering Manager, your team willassistin the developmentandimplementationof automating the build process, tooling needs for running platform operations,and developing automationtestingforquality assurance of delivered platforms.Youwillassistin the design and execution of project starts,facilitateand drive project milestones,provide logistical input for tactical planning and execution,allocatingstaffing resourcesand deliverables.
The responsibilities of aPlatformEngineering Managerrange from: workingwithsenior level leaders, product managers, program/project managers, and other stakeholders to implement and deploycloud basedrelatedtechnology platforms. You lead a team thatwill develop and define the software frameworks for tooling and automation,build andassistoperations teams in building,integrating observability tools, and engineering support of internal teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and organize the team to meet core engineering schedules / technical roadmaps and commitments to ensure that they deliver the highest value
- Participate inandfacilitateaspects of quarterly planning, refinement, milestones, and KPI’s
- Plan andallocateresources in teams to meet expectations on medium and long-term roadmaps
- Facilitate the development cycle of engineering tooling and automation codebase andframework
- Support leadershipinlife cycle management and strategic planning
- Management of large-scale distributed systemsincluding life cycle, deploymentlogistics, and management information base
- Define, implement, andmaintainengineering schedules
- Define and build reoccurring project templates tooptimizeworkflows and efficiencies
- Managing the day-to-day operations of the teamandresolvingconflicts between project delivery times
- Facilitate development and knowledge sharing processes, personal growth within the team
- Establish and enhance metrics, process, workflows, and engineering documentation
- Help to attract andretaina team of highly skilled Engineering professionals that are well aligned in their understanding of both company and departmentalobjectives, direct and evaluate their work, and provide feedback and guidance to ensure skillsremainrelevant
- Continuously improve how the team functions and delivers maintenance andcapacity
- Supporting agent for incidents and escalations to thePlatformOperations team
- Supporting agent for peer reviewing change requests and related Change Management questions
Qualifications
- At least 3+ years of technical leadership role, with 2 years’ experience in people management role, with 6+ years in systems and platform engineering technical roles
- A software development and operational background with experience in real-time communications voice infrastructure including mobility; preferred knowledge of FreeSWITCH, Kamailio and Coturn
- Solid understanding of public cloud space (GCP preferred) infrastructure, security compliance, IaC, build and deployment methodologies
- Solid understanding scripting languages like Terraform, Ansible, JavaScript and Python
- Solid understanding of CI/CD and distributed architectures, ability to read and troubleshoot Java code base
- Solid knowledge of WebRTC and VoIP related to protocols and architecture
- Strong systems reliability engineering including capacity planning, performance, scalability and life cycle management
- Solid SRE best practices, including reliability, monitoring, availability, and incident response
- Demonstrate sound judgment in problem solving, identification, troubleshooting and solutions
- Strong analytical and organizational skills, with attention to detail
- Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to multi-task, prioritizing multiple objectives and initiatives
- Able to work in a team environment and with a diverse group
- Flexibility in working times with Nextiva international employee base
Competencies
- Organization, Time Management & Prioritization- Focuses on key priorities; plans, organizes, schedules and executes on tasks and projects in an efficient and productive manner.
- Solutions-oriented- Leverages tools and resources around them; scopes out what is needed for each assignment or work activity, while identifying and making appropriate use of people and other organizational resources/tools that can be leveraged.
- Communication Skills - Expresses themselves using clear, effective and efficient language. Listens patiently and attentively. Adapts to the purpose of the communication with appropriate style, substance, detail, confidence and channel. Possess the ability to manage multiple channels of communication simultaneously; phone, email, tickets, and chat.
- Product & Position Knowledge - Displays specialized and/or in-depth skills, knowledge or judgement and can confidently bring to bear domain knowledge and experience.
- Documentation – Clearly organizes and presents documentation to communicate engineering principles, procedures, processes, and visuals using software tools; web-based collaboration diagrams, text editors, presentation, and configuration repositories.
- Core Technology and Industry Knowledge –Ability to analyze and document core architecture against systems engineering best practices, with advanced problem isolation and analysis on system platforms.
Nextiva Core Competencies / DNA:
- Drives Results: The successful candidate will be action oriented, with a passion for solving problems. They will bring clarity and simplicity to ambiguous situations. This individual will challenge the status quo; asking what we can do differently and finding ways to create and build more success. They are a change agent, prepared to lead and drive changes as we transform.
- Critical Thinker: The successful candidate is fact based and data driven, able to understand and articulate the “why,” identifying key drivers and learning from the past. They are forward-thinking, anticipating problems before they arise. They’ll recommend and action well thought out solutions, understanding the risks and dependencies.
- Right Attitude: The successful candidate will be team-oriented, collaborative and competitive with a winning mindset; they’re resilient and able to easily bounce back from setbacks. They will be able to zoom in / out, willing to be hands-on to help solve important problems while being a motivating figure for the team along the way. They will embrace a culture of service and learning with a focus on caring, supporting and respecting our customers and team members.
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