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Engg/Sr Engg Manager

Platform9 Systems

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4-7 years

Chennai

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Engg/Sr Engg Manager

Platform9

posted 21d ago

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Job Description

Job Title: Engg/Sr Engg Manager

Reporting To : Director, Engineering

Member of : Engineering Group

About Us:

Platform9: Private Clouds Made Easy
Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds.

Enterprises are struggling to find a better way to run their cloud infrastructure: on the one hand, they have woken up to the staggering true cost of public cloud providers , and on the other hand, they are also painfully aware of daunting virtualization costs and engineering complexity of running a private cloud. Platform9 provides the solution: a better way to deploy, operate and scale private clouds.

The company s flagship product, Private Cloud Director, delivers an open, comprehensive private cloud platform that is developer-friendly and cost-effective, while enabling enterprise IT teams with critical capabilities they need to modernize their legacy virtualized infrastructure.

Platform9 was founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers and has over 20,000 nodes in production at some of the worlds largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency.

All this means that the future for Platform9, for our customers, and for our team is bright and exciting. We re big enough that we have survived many market shifts and economic climates, and we are small enough that we retain a high energy start-up culture. We value customer obsession, innovation, openness, bias towards action, and speed. And we are looking to add a seasoned cloud talent to our tight-knit team.

Responsibilities

Work with product and engineering teams to translate our product roadmap into reality at warp speed
Hire, mentor and guide engineers on the team on technical tasks and career development
Have an unwavering commitment to quality and delighting customers
Work with the customer support team to help manage customer escalations
Provide technical support to solutions team for pre-sales activities

Ideal Characteristics/Profile

Bachelors or Masters degrees in computer science or a related discipline Extensive related work experience is also acceptable

10 years experience as a hands-on engineer or leader in large-scale distributed systems
3 years experience in a lead/management role for an infrastructure engineering team
Built and led strong engineering teams in the distributed systems space
Mentor and motivate team members, along with aiding their growth and advancement
Exposure to and understanding of open-source projects
While not limited to specific technologies, some exposure to public / private cloud-based development with the big 3 clouds, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and languages like Node.js, Python, and Golang is desirable
Technically proficient enough to drive tradeoff evaluations and execution decisions. Dives deep and understands tradeoffs in technology and strategy decisions
Can manage geographically distributed teams, even with small numbers of individual contributors in different locations
Strong organizational skills: ability to manage schedule, people and cost / budget
Culture fit: identifies with our core values
Bar raiser - Amplifies the overall ability and productivity of the team.

Nice to have

Scar tissue and learnings from public cloud cost over-runs or failed (or successful!) private clouds is a big plus
Exposure to application development in the cloud-native landscape is a bonus
Entrepreneurial bent - ability to balance growth with development
Evangelism: interest and ability to be the spokesperson for Platform9 externally
Familiarity with Kubernetes and the associated ecosystem
Exposure to serverless and SaaS technologies, particularly within the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Qualifications:

Extensive hands-on and organization leadership experience of 8+ years
Preferred Engineering degree from a reputed university
Education or certification in business administration or related experience work in a technology environment leading vertical functional teams/business verticals