**Introduction**
The IBM Software is seeking a talented and motivated SRE Manager professional to lead and manage a team of engineers focused on a global Cloud Platform solution servicing multiple IBM offering.
**Your Role and Responsibilities**
- Manage and lead a team of SRE engineers. This involves hiring, training, and mentoring team members, assigning tasks, setting goals, and conducting performance evaluations.
- Provide guidance to the engineering team on architectural directions
- Empower the engineering team to achieve a high level of technical productivity, reliability, and simplicity
- Collaborate across various engineering teams, product, and other cross-functional stakeholders to effectively deliver the best solutions
Overall, an SRE Manager plays a crucial role in aligning engineering and operations to achieve reliable software systems. Combine technical expertise with leadership and management skills to drive continuous improvement and ensure high-quality service delivery.
**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- 3+ years of experience in managing DevOps and SRE engineers
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles, with a focus on cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud) and automation
- Linux system administration
- Experience hiring and retaining top talent
- Problem solving and incident management
- A genuine enjoyment of learning about how things work, with the ability to ask engineers good questions about architecture and product decisions
- Extreme customer focus, committed to investing in partnerships with other engineering teams to establish empathy and understand their use-cases
**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
- AWS Certification(s), Kubernetes, Redhat/Openshift, and Ansible
- Experience on IBM Cloud
- Kubernetes
- SOC2 Controls
**About Business Unit**
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
**About IBM**
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
**Location Statement**
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.