Manager, IT Observability and Automation

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As the Manager of the IT Observability and Automation team, you will lead a team of engineers helping MathWorkers gain deeper insight into the health of their systems and implement toil-reducing/self-recovering automation.  As part of the IT Platform Engineering product group, you will collaborate and partner with Business Application teams, InfoSec, Product IT teams, and Enterprise IT teamsYou will lead innovative advancements in this space while driving common practices across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

  • Coach, mentor, and lead a team of observability and automation engineers. 
  • Develop and maintain observability and automation platform vision, strategy, and roadmap.
  • Manage 3rd party and open-source software selection, renewals, and overall lifecycle management.
  • Manage stakeholder and partner relationships, expectations, and communication.
  • Drive observability and automation best practices across the enterprise.

Minimum Qualifications

  • A bachelor's degree and 7 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required. 2 years management experience is required.

Additional Qualifications

  • Proven track record of growing engineers, investing in their careers, and building a nurturing environment.
  • Ability to balance competing priorities and make trade-offs based on priorities, resource contentions, and other impacting factors.
  • Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and alerting(in cloud-native environments and in distributed systems, in React and Java/Spring-Boot applications and in 3rd party software).
  • Knowledge of IT Jobs Scheduling, Cron Jobs, and other automation capabilities.
  • Knowledge of Vulnerability Management and other InfoSec domain areas that intersect with Observability.
  • Knowledge of streaming and messaging capabilities.
  • Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (especially in AWS).
 
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Why MathWorks?

It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it’s a commitment to doing the right thing—for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.

MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,500 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.

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