Manager, Platform Engineer (SRE, Hands-on)

Vonage Mission

We strive to innovate and enhance our customers' ability to communicate within today's digital, cloud and real-time business environment. Our team is composed of highly motivated, energetic, and customer-focused team members who are passionate about creating and enhancing technology solutions that power the world’s biggest enterprise brands.

Why this role matters

The Vonage Platform Engineering Team is responsible for providing an industry-leading PaaS internal development platform. This platform is critical to the success of Vonage’s technology teams and the simplification & standardization of our infrastructure. Vonage in partnership with Ericsson is defining new products and services that will power networks around the world.

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What you'll do

In this role at Vonage you’ll be responsible for the following: 

• • Lead a team in the development and management of the Vonage Internal Developer Platform
  • Embrace Vonage culture and lead by example
  • Participating in architecture discussions within the Vonage Architecture forum to ensure we’re providing the best solutions to the technical challenges within Vonage
  • Maintaining the platform both in the development and production environments. This includes participating in and maintaining the oncall rotation for your team
  • All decisions around hiring for your team
  • Ensure alignment with teams hosted within the PaaS platform are using Vonage resources in the most cost effective methods
  • The security of the PaaS platform in conjunction with the Security teams.
  • All compliance requirements for the PaaS platform. 
  • Continuous improvement of the PaaS platform.

What you'll bring

• 3 years of experience leading platform engineering or SRE teams
• Expertise maintaining a Kubernetes based platform 
• Expertise maintaining CNCF tools like, ArgoCD, Kyverno, Karpenter and others
• Significant experience working within the AWS environment
• A understanding of DevSecOps processes
• Leadership, ability to develop and grow your team
• Extensive experience automating development processes
• A robust results-driven mindset and dynamic approach.
• A customer-driven focus and flexibility to succeed in a fast-paced environment.
• Creativity and ideas - continuously pushing to improve Vonage’s technical environment
• Passion for delivering excellence.
• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science and/or related work experience.
• Confident coding and debugging in languages such as Python, Go and Ruby.
• Experience with tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Fluent and comfortable working with Cloud Infrastructure including Infrastructure as Code.

What's in it for you

In addition to providing exciting work, career advancement opportunities, and a collaborative work environment, Vonage provides competitive pay and benefits including unlimited discretionary time off and tuition reimbursement.

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.