Job Description
Summary
We're all empowered here to achieve success on our terms. To explore. To invent. To find better ways of doing things. At VMware, jobs become opportunities and careers. We work together as one VMwarе. Workspace ONE is a digital workspace platform that simply and securely delivers and manages any app on any device by integrating access control, application management and multi-platform endpoint management. Our goal is to enable Workspace One platform to scale and manage billions of devices across various operating system platforms and enable seamless experiences through IT orchestration. You will be owning engineering initiatives and champion a culture of high ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?
The VMware Workspace ONE UEM SRE & Performance team is seeking for a passionate engineering manager to lead our growing UEM SRE & Performance team. In this role you will:
- Manage a team of software engineers working on the UEM SRE & Performance Engineering team.
- Coach your team members and support their professional and career growth
- Work closely with engineers to prioritize, review/create backlog, and drive key improvements as a part of our agile processes
- Work with R&D and Product Management teams to address their immediate product challenges, to bring them as product/team roadmap.
- Collaborate across roles and organizational boundaries to deliver valuable outcomes for VMware and its customers.
- Measuring and optimizing UEM services' performance and availability.
- Driving tools development which can help SRE engineers monitor, track and identify patterns of service usability.
Success in the role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?
- You will become part of an experienced management team building a large-scale UEM platform as a service following the Scrum of Scrums methodology.
- You and your team will be responsible for identifying/delivering any observability, scalability, predictability, reliability gaps within UEM platform/services.
- From the first day on the job, you would assume the people management responsibilities of a small team of highly skills software engineers.
- During your first months on the job, you will be expected to build your knowledge in the domain and the technology your team is already building. To do so you will participate in the team's scope and architectural discussion, work with your peer managers.
- By the third month we expect you to be in full control of the deliverables of your team. You would work with your peer managers to build the teams backlog, scope the projects working with your team members, make sure that they are delivered on-time and with the expected quality
What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?
As a key member of VMware Workspace ONE UEM SRE & Performance team:
- You will be part of the leadership for a stellar team which delivers a world class UEM Platform as a service for the needs of the modern multi-cloud era.
- You will be responsive to customer incidents and escalations and help prioritize engineering work, from whole initiatives to sprint tasks.
- You should be doing regular 1:1 with your direct reports, discussing short term and long term goals and setting them up for success!
- Being a people manager, you will also be responsible for compensation planning, performance bonus planning and hiring.
- You will be responsible for Day-to-Day engineering activities such as sprint planning, measuring the velocity of the team using story points.
- You will be driving reliability engineering practices and improve predictability of the system/services.
- You will be driving initiatives for team to be proactively identifying potential issues and actively drive it closure.
- You should have great communication and presentation skills.
- You will also provide technical leadership and direction for our engineers.
For US based candidates, the annual pay range (OTE for commissioned roles; Salary for other roles) for this position is: $139,000 - $331,000. The actual offer will be based on the role, location, and individual candidate experience. Bonus, commission, and/or equity may be eligible for this position. VMware offers comprehensive benefits including, but not limited to: medical, dental, and vision plans, company paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation time. Additional benefits for this position can be found at https://benefits.vmware.com/. Your talent advisor can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
This job may require the candidate to travel and/or work from a facility that requires full vaccination prior to entry.
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