| Company |
General Motors |
| Job title |
Engineering Manager, DevOps |
| Job location |
Austin, Texas/Mountain View, California/Warren, Michigan |
| Type |
Full Time |
Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership & Strategy
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team focused on DevOps, observability, and system reliability.
- Establish team priorities that align with organizational objectives, ensuring a scalable and efficient infrastructure.
- Set and evolve the technical vision and roadmap, integrating best practices in monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Technical Execution & Oversight
- Design, implement, and optimize observability solutions, including metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting, to enhance system reliability.
- Define and maintain scalable monitoring systems that proactively detect and prevent system failures.
- Oversee CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth deployments and minimizing downtime.
- Review system architecture and development code, ensuring efficiency, testability, and adherence to best practices.
- Collaboration & Process Improvement
- Work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of observability practices.
- Define incident response strategies, improving recovery time and overall platform stability.
- Identify and integrate new technologies to enhance observability, performance monitoring, and automation.
Requirements & Skills:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE engineering roles.
- 2+ years of experience in engineering management.
- Expertise in observability, monitoring, and logging solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
- Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and tools.
- Experience with CI/CD automation and configuration management tools.
- Proficiency in containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong understanding of system reliability, incident response, and performance optimization.
- Experience implementing scalable monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies to ensure system health and reliability.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams.
