Head of Infrastructure and Tools

Panasonic – Head of Infrastructure and Tools

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What You’ll Get to Do:

The Head of Infrastructure and Tools will work in a small team of backend service engineers to manage and build out the AWS infrastructure to support the company. You are expected to be a hands-on lead DevOps who excels in a dynamic, fast-moving, and agile environment building high quality, high performance and scalable software. You will be expected to work equally between design, hands-on development, and providing mentorship to other DevOps engineers within the organization. You will have ownership to build and grow the team from scratch.

• Drive adoption of CI/CD, deployment automation, and release engineering standard methodologies
• Provide technical direction and manage DevOps resources on technical projects, mentoring team members and guiding and resolving any problems as they arise
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders, engineering teams and analysts to develop strategic road-maps for the company
• Craft clear documentation on policies and process leaning towards a self-provisioning model for service requirements including data stores
• Manage the cost and expenditure for services while setting up service infrastructure
• Designing and enforcing best practices and standards for new application services
• Work as a member of feature teams to deliver on the infrastructure portion of the feature/product
• Collaborate with other engineering teams, PM and UX teams
• Own and manage productivity SAAS such as G Suite and Atlassian services
• Evaluate and incorporate new cloud services as and when appropriate

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field is preferred; or equivalent experience
• Have 3+ years of engineering management experience and 10+ years overall software engineering experience
• Have a deep understanding of Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Docker, Helm, Prometheus, Itsio, Grafana
• Have advanced experience with AWS. Experience of GCP and/or Azure is a plus
• Hands-on experience leading and driving a DevOps and/or InfoSec team in a SaaS, Software or Cloud environment, including AWS and/or GCP
• Strong organizational skills and an entrepreneurial drive with a history of hiring and developing high-performing teams
• Comfortable in a fast-paced startup culture where there is ambiguity and constant change
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and a strong sense of diplomacy in all interactions, a self-starter who can gain support from a variety of stakeholders.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package
• Comprehensive benefits
• 401K
• Pet Insurance
• Paid Parental Care Leave
• Employee Referral Program
• Educational Assistance
• Flexible Work Program
• Volunteer time Off
• Casual Dress Code
• Total Well Being Program

Panasonic is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law or company policy. All qualified individuals are required to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. Pre-employment drug testing is required for safety sensitive positions or as may otherwise be required by contract or law. Due to the high volume of responses, we will only be able to respond to candidates of interest. All candidates must have valid authorization to work in the U.S. Thank you for your interest in Panasonic Corporation of North America.