Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to enabling organizations to proactively find, fix, and verify exploitable attack vectors. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the infrastructure platform team, focusing on building capabilities for product development and establishing a Site Reliability Engineering function to ensure operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead software engineering teams providing infrastructure-as-code to manage cloud infrastructure
- Establish governance and mechanisms for application development teams to self-service infrastructure provisioning, while providing for best practices and controls
- Provide documentation, training, and support to ensure feature dev teams are leveraging self-service capabilities
- Hire experienced site reliability staff, and a line manager to grow and oversee the SRE team
- Professionalize incident management
- Define and document incident processes and practices for your SRE team and for the application feature teams
- Make tool and vendor decisions to support processes
- Drive incident professionalism across the engineering organization through training and process adoption
- Establish design-before-build discipline
- Facilitate lightweight design documents, architectural decision records, and working group reviews
- Outline operational lifecycles, “Day 2” concerns, and developer experience as part of infrastructure architecture decisions
- Use design reviews, code reviews, and blameless retrospectives to drive a culture of quality and excellence in engineering
- Balance providing developer support while also executing on a roadmap of infrastructure engineering initiatives
- Establish intake, allocate resources, provide visibility into backlogs to stakeholders, and manage prioritization against capacity
- Directly manage a growing team of infrastructure engineers
- Hire and develop line managers and staff / principal engineers
- Ensure a strong bench of technical and leadership talent in your group
- Recruiting and onboarding talented individuals to support our organizational goals
- Mentoring, coaching, equipping, and developing your team
- Recognizing and retaining high performers
- Leading horizontally with peer Management & Senior Leaders
Skills
- Demonstrated experience leading teams operating SaaS service infrastructure
- Deep hands-on experience deploying and operating production infrastructure on public cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred; Azure and GCP familiarity a plus)
- Strong command of Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform; experience with Crossplane and GitOps patterns strongly preferred
- Experience managing production Kubernetes environments at scale
- Solid understanding of security best practices including zero trust architecture, secrets management, identity and access management, and software supply chain security
- Experience building and operating self-service infrastructure platforms that enable application development teams, while balancing self-service and developer productivity with maintainability and security
- Experience leading or building SRE functions, including incident management processes, on-call programs, SLO/SLA definition, and operational runbooks
- Deep hands on experience with observability: application performance management, logs and traces, and golden signals and service-specific metrics
- Expert in leading infrastructure teams to translate business and product requirements into technical requirements and engineering deliverables. Demonstrated ability to drive a design-before-build engineering culture and capture operational lifecycle and impact on dependent teams into infrastructure architecture decisions
- Experience in design practices like architecture decision records or RFCs in the infrastructure or platform engineering context
- Proven track record of driving engineering rigor through coaching, design reviews, and feedback. Track record of growing engineers from strong individual contributors to system-level thinkers
- Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain high-performing engineers and engineering managers in remote or distributed environments
- Proven skills in managing a backlog of strategic roadmap initiatives and a competing stream of developer support and operational requests against capacity constraints
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven ability to build, scale, and retain high performing engineering teams in remote or distributed environments
Benefits
- Equity package in the form of stock options and benefits
- Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
- A flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave
- Hybrid & Remote Work: We embrace a mix of remote and hybrid work models depending on role and location, including our Chicago office, where some roles require regular in-office presence
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