Anaplan
SaaS
SeniorEngineeringManager
“Senior Engineering Manager at Anaplan. Skills: Private Cloud Management, Infrastructure as Code, Team Leadership, Kubernetes. Lead, manage, and expand a team of Infrastructure Engineers. Define and execute the ongoing engineering strategy for our production private cloud”
What You'll Achieve.
optimizing business decision-making; outpace their competition and the market; operational excellence; scaling; maintenance of our production OpenStack private cloud; reliability; capacity management; performance optimisation; optimally supports our internal consumers and Kubernetes workloads; achieving ambitious goals; achieving strict business and technology goals; delivering solutions that matter on a global scale
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Extensive managerial experience in a high-growth environment, running production data centres or private cloud infrastructure at scale, Proven ability to lead diverse and distributed teams of technical professionals in a 24/7 large-scale infrastructure environment, technical foundation in operating production private cloud services (OpenStack), hypervisors (KVM), bare-metal provisioning (MAAS/Ironic), solid understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes), Experience with modern automation, configuration management, and DevOps practices, Experience with infrastructure observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), security best practices, infrastructure cost management, Adept in stakeholder management, communicating technical details to a non-technical audience, Excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills, Relevant degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, Experience managing teams in an agile environment, Leadership in large-scale, production private cloud environments (OpenStack), Managing senior engineering resources and infrastructure lifecycles, Supporting Kubernetes/containerised workloads on top of private cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, Production hardware management, private cloud architectures, operational resilience strategies
Nice to Have
master’s degree in a relevant discipline, Experience with Canonical's ecosystem (Charmed OpenStack, MAAS, Juju, Landscape), Deep understanding of distributed storage (Ceph, Swift, Cinder), software-defined networking (Neutron, Open vSwitch, OVN), Experience with enterprise container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift
What You'll Do.
and expand a team of Infrastructure Engineers
Define and execute the ongoing engineering strategy for our production private cloud
Communicate reach out to other teams involved in the delivery of your services
Foster a collaborative culture that emphasises operational maturity
and continuous improvement
Oversee the development and execution of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management
Collaborate with senior stakeholders across the organisation
Manage and mentor team members
Drive initiatives to optimise hardware utilisation and improve system performance
Leverage emerging AI tooling and frameworks to enhance the management
Promote and uphold best practices in private cloud security
Evaluate new infrastructure technologies and vendor offerings
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Communicate reach out to other teams involved in the delivery of your services; help information to flow between teams; Foster a collaborative culture; Collaborate with senior stakeholders across the organisation
Communication Scope
Communicate reach out to other teams; communicating technical details to a non-technical audience; Excellent communication, leadership, and organisational skills
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