Manager Devops Engineering

Primary Responsibilities and Essential Functions

• Lead, keep happy, and advance a diverse team of infrastructure engineers in multiple time zones

• Responsible for the day-to-day operational management and disaster recovery of the technology platforms

• Gather KPIs and ensure service levels and operational data across all internally and externally provided technologies that are part of the Cox Edge platform

• Continually educate yourself, your team, and your leadership on edge and cloud technologies

• Lead technical evaluations to understand the product, pricing, and potential use cases and then present results and recommendations

• Select, purchase, provision, and maintain physical and virtual infrastructure across nationwide datacenters

• Manage hardware implementations into various datacenter processes

• Maintain accurate inventory and license management

• Assist in developing business, financial, marketing, and operational plans and materials

• Foster and manage cross-team relationships within Cox Edge as well as the larger Cox family

• Foster and manage vendor and boundary partner relationships for professional services, software, and hardware providers

• Understand and contribute towards enterprise architecture roadmaps and promote solutions that make progress towards that vision

• Create solution architecture diagrams and other design artifacts representing the approach and effect of new proposed solutions

• Translate product and/or customer requirements into specific systems, applications, or process designs for complex solutions and enabling platforms

• Ensure compliance with all security, FCC, and Cox standards

• Travel generally on-demand due to site visits, conferences, or training; expected up to 5%

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience in a management role

• 5+ years’ experience working across one or more relevant industries (i.e., cloud, telecommunications, media, or management information systems)

• 7+ years’ experience in full development life cycle with significant experience in delivering applications and solutions in a production environment

• Very strong technical understanding and know-how across a broad set of technologies

• Individual should have strong leadership, communication, and relationship skills

• Easily interact, relate, and communicate with a wide assortment of roles, titles, and personality types

• Work with minimal supervision

• Positive, solution finding, self-starting, and can-do attitude

• Ability to listen carefully, ask questions, and translate guidance to effective action

• Experience with cloud, Software as a Service, data center/infrastructure management, and network technology

Preferred

• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, web application technologies, cloud design, software architecture, and general development

• Deep knowledge of public and private clouds with emphasis on cloud, edge, IoT, and data and analytics technologies

• Start-up experience and mindset

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