Leader, Software Engineering

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As part of the IT Service Management - Observability team, you will play a crucial role in delivering exceptional services, tools, and platforms to enhance our organization's capabilities. Your focus will be on ensuring comprehensive visibility and insights into the system's performance and health, from infrastructure to user interactions, using various monitoring and optimization techniques.

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with over 10 years of expertise to lead our team. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and mentoring a team of software engineers, fostering their growth.
• Conducting performance reviews and developing goals and plans for team members.
• Overseeing the planning and execution of software projects, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align project requirements with business objectives.
• Providing technical direction and ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Staying updated on industry trends and exploring their potential application.
• Participating in architectural discussions for scalable solutions.
• Implementing Agile/Scrum practices for efficient project execution.
• Promoting a culture of continuous integration, delivery, and testing.
• Communicating project status and challenges to senior management.
• Representing the engineering team in strategic planning and decision-making.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4+ years in a leadership or management role with Proven track record of successfully leading and managing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
• 5+ years of experience in Splunk Logging and IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
• 3+ years of experience with Splunk Observability Cloud or experience with two or more of Splunk AI solutions such as Splunk AI Assistant for SPL , Out-of-the box AI/ML in ITSI/AIOps/UBA/etc. , ML SDK/Toolkit or Splunk App for DS/DL Splunk
• 3+ years proven experience in one or more of Observability and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, Zabbix, etc.
• 5+ years of System design experience and should be able to design highly complex, scalable, and resilient systems.
• 6+ years of designing distributed systems and writing effective and optimized code for a complex scenario/POCs.

• Should be aware of types to security scans and experienced with assessment tools and reviewing security reports.
• Expert in various cloud services including compute, storage, databases, and networking.
• Expert in doing technology evaluation and should clearly highlight the trade-offs using one over other.
• Should be aware of general IT trends and software technologies that are evolving and how they can adopt.
• Experienced in agile ceremonies (Sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives)
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with multi-functional teams.

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