Bazaarvoice is looking for an experienced Development Manager to join us in building the future of SRE at the company. You will lead the workstream of our SRE team which is tasked with designing, producing, and implementing tools and automation to assist with the successful delivery of software in our AWS-focused cloud infrastructure.
You’ll also be an integral member of the SRE team, with an outsized impact on strategy and our product roadmap. You will work closely with the engineering leadership and other engineering teams to ensure availability of our services, provide insight through better monitoring and alerting, and develop automation to streamline development and deployment.
About You:
- You’re a passionate technologist with 6+ years of Software Engineering experience and 2+ years as a People Manager/Lead.
- You’re an excellent leader, communicator, innovative and self-motivated, with a positive approach to teamwork.
- You have experience working in an agile software development environment and will seek out opportunities for improvement whilst identifying and managing risk.
- You have an analytical approach and have experience in evaluating capability needs and the suitability of initiatives against the strategy.
- Experience designing and developing highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies and containerization using Docker, Terraform & Kubernetes.
- Skilled in cloud technologies, primarily Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings, development, and networking platforms.
- You have a passion for people management, mentorship, and career growth on your team(s).
- You’re data-driven in your decision-making, willing to take calculated risks and fail fast, and aren’t afraid to raise your hand when you see areas to improve.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Providing coaching, mentorship, and career development.
- Optimizing team velocity by ruthlessly prioritizing workload, removing roadblocks to progress, and actively protecting the team from disturbance, disruption, or outside interference.
- Closely collaborating on product strategy with your Product Manager, and working with him/her to manage and prioritize the product backlog.
- Identifying opportunities for your team’s professional development and work with the right partners to make it happen.
- Staying up to date on industry news and being a trusted source of all major developments affecting our company and our competitors.
- Anticipating future people requirements and working with the talent team to recruit, evaluate, and hire great new team members.
- Providing performance feedback and complete performance evaluations for the team.
- Providing informal performance feedback on a frequent basis, recognizing achievement and flagging opportunities for growth.
- Providing advice and assistance to teams on technical difficulties that arise in the course of doing their work.
- Leveraging your experience to flag issues that your team might overlook (such as scalability, performance, security, compliance, operational readiness, etc.).
- Staying current in the development tools and technologies that your team members are using.
