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Empower · 1 day ago

Senior Director Platform Engineering

Nationwide Remote

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$133K/yr - $192K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Build, grow, and manage high performance engineering teams, including participating in the building of roadmaps, visions and the strategic activities of the teams

Work with developers, quality engineers, security engineers, data engineers, DBAs, and product managers to build Infrastructure, Security, and Operation as Code to deliver highly secure and scalable applications that delight users and engineers alike

Improve the design of legacy applications and advocate for Cloud Native patterns

Leverage SRE to drive continuous improvement to our applications and processes

Build and foster relationships with departments across Engineering and throughout the business

Work with a broad portfolio in a fast-moving company and capable of creating positive change

Lead by example, pull your sleeves up, and perform the hands-on work as needed to build and deploy pipelines as well as automation for internal processes keeping the development team performing at a high level

Demonstrate strong leadership through strong verbal and written communication keeping leadership informed, creating organizational goals and working with other teams

Help remove technical obstacles, help enhance team processes, and drive resolutions for complex issues

Mentor, coach, and support individuals in their career growth through 1x1s and developing healthy relationships

Qualification

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AWSDevOps/SRE managementInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD pipelinesEKSGitLabTerraformObservability toolsIstioAWS IAMData platforms/toolsCloud migration

Required

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent (an additional four years of hands-on work experience) required

10 years or more experience with AWS including the designing, building, operating of large-scale applications

6 years of experience in managing a DevOps/SRE or Engineering organization and passion to mentor and lead talented engineers

Expert-level experience in building fully automated infrastructures (preferably in AWS, EKS, Gitlab and Terraform)

Experience setting up observability tools (SRE) and know how to drive their adoption with development teams

Hands-on experience working with, operating, and deploying CI/CD and IaC pipelines

Istio and AWS IAM experience

Preferred

Master’s degree from an accredited College or University preferred

Software engineering background

Experience supporting data platforms/tools such as Spark, EMR and Sagemaker

Experience developing an Internal Development Platform

Know how to modernize web applications and support a migration to Cloud, IaC, SRE, EKS patterns

Ability to work with people cooperatively and effectively from all organizations and levels of leadership

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision and life insurance

Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup

Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year

Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans

Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year

Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year

Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)

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