Platform Engineering Director

Job title:

Platform Engineering Director

Company:

Vonage

Job description

Vonage MissionWe strive to innovate and enhance our customers’ ability to communicate within today’s digital, cloud and real-time business environment. Our team is composed of highly-motivated, energetic and customer-focused team members who are passionate about creating and enhancing technology solutions that power the world’s biggest enterprise brands.Why this role mattersThe Vonage Platform Engineering Team is responsible for providing an industry leading PaaS internal development platform. This platform is critical to the success of Vonage’s technology teams and the simplification & standardization of our infrastructure. Vonage in partnership with Ericsson is defining new products and services that will power networks around the world.What you’ll doIn this role at Vonage you’ll be responsible for the following:

• Leading multiple teams globally in the development and management of the Vonage Internal Developer Platform
• Embrace Vonage culture and lead by example
• Participating in all architecture discussions within the Vonage Architecture forum to ensure we’re providing the best solutions to the technical challenges within Vonage
• Maintaining the platform both in the development and production environments. This includes participating in and maintaining the on-call rotation for your department.
• All cost budgeting and cost forecasting for the systems you maintain across all vendors.
• All decisions around hiring globally for the teams within your organization.
• Ensure alignment with teams hosted within the PaaS platform are using Vonage resources in the most cost effective methods
• The security of the PaaS platform in conjunction with the Security teams.
• All compliance requirements for the PaaS platform.
• Continuous improvement of the PaaS platform based on customer feedback

What will you bring

• 5-10 years of experience leading teams
• 5+ maintaining a Kubernetes based platform
• Expertise implementing CNCF tools like, ArgoCD, Kyverno, Karpenter and others
• A demonstrate experience managing and leading company wide projects
• Significant experience working within the AWS environment
• A deep understanding of DevSecOps processes
• Leadership, ability to develop and grow your team.
• Extensive knowledge of platform engineering theory
• Extensive experience automating development processes
• A robust results-driven mindset and dynamic approach.
• A customer-driven focus and flexibility to succeed in a fast-paced environment.
• An ability to collaborate across different teams in the organization, gaining support and buy-in for projects and strategic initiatives.
• Creativity and ideas – continuously pushing to improve Vonage’s technical environment
• Passion for delivering excellence.
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science and/or related work experience.
• Confident coding and debugging in languages such as Python, Go and Ruby.
• Experience with tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Fluent and comfortable working with Cloud Infrastructure including Infrastructure as Code.

Nice to have, but not required

• Experience with Hashicorp Nomad and Consul.
• Experience within the Google GCP Environment.
• Experience building SRE teams within organizations

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.#LI-AR1

Expected salary

Location

Wrocław, dolnośląskie

Job date

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 05:01:01 GMT

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