Software Engineering Manager

• Define the roadmap for container platforms (Kubernetes) and container‑as‑a‑service (CaaS) to support enterprise workloads.
• Design, deploy, and manage highly available, secure, and scalable containerized infrastructure.
• Responsible for overseeing the product development process, collaborating with engineering to convert market requirements into technical specifications for container runtime, security, and orchestration.
• Guarantees developer usability through self‑service options, APIs, and clear documentation.
• Promotes widespread adoption among engineering teams and provides mentorship as well as guidance to engineers.
• Represents customers, studies industry trends, and informs product development and adoption.
• Oversees product metrics to enhance the performance, usability, and reliability of containerized workloads across various environments.
• Develop and set standards for container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
• Establish best practices for CI/CD pipelines, microservices deployment, and observability—including logging, monitoring, and tracing.
• Guarantee robust high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability.
• Enforce container security best practices, scan images, secure runtime, enforce policies, and meet enterprise standards.
• Partner with DevOps, security, and networking teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines, container runtime environments, and infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC).
• Enhance cluster efficiency and resource management, minimize on‑prem/cloud expenses through effective container orchestration, and strengthen system performance and reliability in accordance with SLOs/SLAs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience) preferred.
• 10+ years in technology with extensive experience leading Container Platform Engineering teams, preferred. Including Architecture/Software Engineer experience in an agile software product development environment.
• Advanced level understanding of customer experience.
• 10+ years of expert‑level knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), public cloud providers, and platform engineering domains preferred.
• Experience in Agile software development environments, preferably with developer platform products.
• Strong background in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and DevOps tooling (e.g., Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitOps).
• Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on‑prem solutions (OpenShift, bare‑metal Kubernetes, etc.).
• Proven ability to build technical strategy and lead in a matrixed organization.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex technical information to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to lead cross‑functional teams and manage multiple stakeholders effectively.
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD, or CKS) strongly preferred.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or SAFe POPM (Preferred).
• Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP) a plus.