Patch and Repave Senior Engineering Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Engineering Manager – Patch & Repave Platform
• Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)
• Hours Per Week: 40

Description

Responsible for building and leading a team to deliver technology products and services that meet business outcomes. Leads technology strategy, ensures solutions comply with applicable standards, promotes design/engineering/organizational practices, and advances modern Agile solution delivery practices.

Overview

Will lead the design, architecture, and delivery of a new enterprise solution enabling automated patching of deployed compute infrastructure and repaving of strategic immutable container and VM offerings. Builds and leads a secure, scalable, policy-driven platform that modernizes patching practices, reduces vulnerability exposure, and improves reliability via immutable infrastructure patterns. This leadership role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, security, SRE/operations, and developer experience, requiring strong execution, technical depth, and stakeholder alignment.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage teams by setting and tracking maturity and quality objectives, performing financial activities to inform workforce strategy and hiring practices, and training employees/teams to address feedback and achieve quality and performance objectives
• Facilitate performance and career development through performance reviews, coaching, and development plans
• Manage solution delivery and application performance in production (app health, resiliency, performance, security, enterprise data management standards, audit exams and reviews), ensuring risk, financial, and compliance policies are met
• Manage relationships with business and technology partners; lead and create followership in Communities of Practice
• Contribute to technology strategy for the technical domain
• Create an inclusive and healthy working environment; resolve organizational impediments/blockers
• Ensure execution aligns with product strategy through collaboration with product management and stakeholders

Managerial Responsibilities

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment aligned to company Great Place to Work goals
• Manager of Process & Data: Applies deep process knowledge, operational excellence, and innovation; focuses on simplicity, data-based decision making, and continuous improvement
• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results; connects to team strategy and priorities
• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline and controls to identify, escalate, and debate issues
• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching, and feedback to motivate and improve performance
• Financial Steward: Manages expenses and budgets aligned with objectives
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by prioritizing, inspecting, and delegating work effectively

Required Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in software/platform engineering with 8+ years leading engineering teams (hiring, performance, delivery accountability)
• Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale platforms (internal developer platforms, infra automation, lifecycle management systems)
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and distributed systems fundamentals (reliability, scalability, fault tolerance)
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD, release engineering, and automated quality gates (test automation, progressive delivery patterns)
• Working knowledge of immutable infrastructure concepts (golden images, artifact promotion, replace vs. mutate) and/or platform lifecycle automation
• Hands-on familiarity with modern infrastructure ecosystems: Containers/Kubernetes and/or VM platforms
• Strong collaboration across Security, SRE, Infrastructure, and Application stakeholders; ability to align diverse requirements into a coherent roadmap
• Excellent communication translating executive outcomes and product requirements into engineering delivery

Desired Qualifications

• Experience building patch orchestration systems, vulnerability remediation automation, or compliance reporting platforms
• Experience operating platforms with SLOs and partnering with SRE on operational readiness and on-call rotations
• Familiarity with image pipelines (Packer-like approaches), artifact registries, and supply-chain security patterns
• Progressive delivery tooling and safe rollout strategies (rings/canaries/blue-green)
• Experience with hybrid/on-prem environments in addition to public cloud
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture (pub/sub), streaming, or change-data-capture patterns for maintaining metadata freshness
• Familiarity with UX-heavy internal products and partnering with design teams
• Strong background in platform security and compliance automation (audit trails, policy-as-code concepts, evidence generation)
• Experience building scalable and reliable Tier 1 systems

Skills

• Influence
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Analytical Thinking
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Automation
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices