Manager Platform Engineering Santander

Resumen

Manager, Platform Engineering

CloudBlue is a technology solution startup born from the need to digitally transform a multibillion-dollar enterprise. The CloudBlue platform orchestrates ecosystems for customers worldwide, including the largest B2B Cloud Marketplace in the world. We have spent 15+ years innovating and investing in digital transformation, subscriptions, and multi-level partner ecosystems. Today, hundreds of customers rely on CloudBlue to orchestrate their ecosystems and scale their businesses globally.

By joining the CloudBlue team, you’ll be playing a significant role in our growth, having an opportunity to make an immediate impact on the business. Our entrepreneurial scope means we operate with the agility of a high growth start-up, but with the confidence & backing of a Fortune 100 corporation, Ingram Micro.

At CloudBlue you’ll work with a diverse and multi-cultural team that spans cultures, continents, and time zones to serve our global customer base. You’ll be a part of a culture that emphasizes trust, open communication, and continuous learning.

How do you stand out?

By having knowledge of SaaS and PaaS and previous experience in eCommerce management, by thriving in a “startup-like” environment and being excited about the impact you will make. Our office is in the North of Spain and has an agile, young and talented environment, with a solid career plan in one of the top cloud companies all over the world. Our diverse and innovative team enjoys the continually evolving environment we are in, surrounded by the infinite potential of technology and leading the XaaS revolution.

Position overview:

The Manager, Platform Engineering is an expert in the Managed Services line of business. You will be working with a team of technical practitioners ensuring services are delivered to contractual obligations and service level agreements. Your team’s main responsibility will be to engineer and maintain customers’ cloud platforms, provide support. You will be well respected by clients, seen as a thought leader, trusted advisor, and known to be responsive to supporting clients’ urgent technology issues that arise during the course of their day-to-day business operations.

• Working in a matrix organization, you will drive delivery and execution by a well-seasoned team, many of which would be the most experienced and certified technical practitioners and consultants
• Collaborates with senior leadership in relation to delivery processes and individual service tickets
• Accountable for client onboarding activities in alignment with contractual commitments
• Oversees priority management of regular duties for the team

• Reprioritize the teams’ work on a moment’s notice in response to critical events at the client site for severity one (1) issues. This includes assessing the required expertise and bringing in the right resources to solve the problem at hand.
• Active communication with clients (including leading presentations) on delivery status, QBR, technology opportunities, and educating clients on industry trends. This includes translating technology underpinnings such as security threats in a way that can be understood by the business users.
• Guide the development of client technology roadmaps (prepared by systems engineers and architects) to ensure those roadmaps evolve the clients’ technology environment in alignment with industry trends and CloudBlue’s technology roadmap
• Ensure that the team fulfills delivery best practices at the client sites in alignment with the CloudBlue’s technology standards (as example, when to upgrade operating systems based on a vendor’s enterprise and/or feature go-to-market strategy)
• Keep current with industry technology advancements including hyperscale cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP), software, operating system, security, and methodology trends

• Actively involved in key client stakeholder status meetings and planning sessions
• Presents client roadmaps to key client stakeholders (C-Level, Directors, Management) and has the ability to address their questions about the roadmap
• Communicate with clients on industry technology advancements including hardware, software, operating system, security, and methodology trends
• Is an escalation point for clients when delivery issues or Severity 1 items arise

• Is an active participant and leader of an internal technology standards committee. This committee outlines CloudBlue technology roadmaps, new technology adoption plans, methods for leveraging existing and new tools available in the marketplace.
• Is accountable for bringing these plans to the Managed Services team, educated them on the plan, and ensures ongoing compliance to those plans

• Responsible for staff management, including annual performance reviews, career mentoring, and performance improvement plans
• Responsible for workforce sizing and costing, including recruitment activity (from qualification to interviewing to onboarding)

• Has responsibility to review and approve timesheets (with client billing implications including overtime) and expenses in accordance with corporate policies
• Drives employee engagement, quality achievement and performance improvement across the organization

• 5+ years’ in Managed Services environment, with experience in IT Systems, regulations, guidelines, and associated standards
• 2+ years on management position
• Experience managing technical team
• Good knowledge of Azure, AWS, CloudBlue product and services. Understanding of Cloud concepts

• Excellent communication skills for liaising with vendors, customers, and internal departments
• Great presentation skills
• Practical experience with risk management, product testing, and project plans
• Highly motivated and self-directed
• Capable of multi-tasking, and able to lead their team with minimal direction

• Extremely detail-oriented and analytical thinker
• Able to interface directly with cross-functional teams
• Able to create and review technical documentation, including project plans, test procedures, and design documents
• Able to develop, review, and maintain metrics and quality audits
• Strong problem identification and problem resolution skills

• Knowledge of ITIL Foundations
• A well-defined sense of diplomacy, including solid negotiation, conflict resolution, and people management skills
• Strong work ethic and positive team attitude

• Senior level expertise in all areas of technology services (Networking, Cloud, Storage, Virtualization, Compute, etc.)

• Able to multi-task and work in stressful and urgent situations Energetic
• Results oriented
• Time management
• Customer focused
• Excellent communicator (verbal and presentation)

• Team player and leader
• Coach and mentor
• Adaptable and flexible
• Creative and innovative
• Problem Solving and Decision Making

• Strong at planning and organizing
• Has sales acumen
• Has high degree of integrity
• Mediation and negotiation
• Continual learner