Senior Engineering Manager, DevOps

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Software Engineering

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Are you ready to shape the future of digital engagement and build next-generation solutions? Salesforce Unified Engagement is at the forefront of bringing real-time communications to the Salesforce Service Cloud, enabling compelling digital engagement experiences for our customers.

Join our team of talented engineers and architects to redefine and enhance our real-time messaging platform. We continuously innovate to improve the agility, availability, scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness of our services.

The Service Cloud Real-Time Platform Service enables chat and messaging experiences for our customers. We are looking for a passionate Senior Manager to lead the DevOps team for this critical and highly optimized service.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers on various initiatives, solving complex technical problems and driving customer success.

• Develop and maintain observability products, build tools and automation to eliminate manual touch, and respond to system failures and outages.

• Gain insights into platform incidents and address repeat issues.

• Leverage AIOps platforms to improve anomaly detection, automate runbooks, and meet MTTD & MTTR goals.

• Oversee system monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis in a timely manner.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system reliability and performance.

• Collaborate with development teams and drive reliability/availability improvements. 

• Manage deployments, oversee patching and mitigate security vulnerabilities. 

• Proactively plan and manage potential risks to ensure system reliability.

• Prioritize tasks and projects effectively in a fast-paced environment to ensure critical issues are addressed promptly. 

People Management:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing guidance, support, and professional development opportunities.

• Conduct regular performance reviews, set goals, and provide constructive feedback to team members

• Manage team resources effectively to ensure optimal project staffing and workload distribution.

• Address and resolve any team conflicts or issues, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment. 

• Participate in recruitment and onboarding of new hires.

Required Skills:

• Expertise in managing large, fault-tolerant, cloud-hosted systems.

• Proficiency with container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Clear technical communication, especially about problems and incidents.

• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented and one scripting language.

• Understanding fundamental mesh and network technologies, e.g., DNS, Load Balancing, TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, curl, openssl.

• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and analytical skills demonstrated in past projects.

Preferred Skills:

• 10+ years of experience, with 5+ years in production engineering/DevOps/SRE roles.

• Experience with real time messaging platforms.

• Understanding of Kafka is a plus. 

• Experience with AWS or another cloud PaaS provider.

Join us to tackle exciting challenges and make a significant impact in an evolving landscape. If you are passionate about leading a talented team, we want to hear from you.

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