Manager, Platform Engineering - Kubernetes

Liberty Mutual Insurance · Indianapolis, IN · 4 days ago

Full-time

About the role

The GDS Application Environments team is seeking a Manager, Platform Engineering - Kubernetes to lead the engineering team evolving an enterprise scale Kubernetes platform.

Responsibilities

Establish clear expectations and accountability while building an inclusive, high-engagement culture where people can challenge ideas, learn from failure, and do their best work.
Ensure services and platforms are enhanced and maintained to meet business's functional needs.
In partnership with Product Owner, identify key performance indicators to ensure work product, operational stability and security excellence is maintained.
Utilizes AI and automated reporting to set and coach toward clear engineering goals and improve planning, engineering workflows and platform outcomes.
Manage the senior engineering team that is pivotal to enabling application delivery, advancing self-service developer capabilities, modernizing cloud and on-premises infrastructure, and sustaining platform reliability, security, and operations.
Understand the business domain and product vision. Align the team's work to the strategic business and technical goals.
Develop technology vision, strategies, critical success factors and operating plans for platform.
Define operational standards and metrics, establish how they will be measured and hold team members accountable to meeting them.
Initiate and foster collaborative partnerships with aligned vendor. Responsible vendor management and workforce planning for your unit.
Manage the quality of work delivered by team members and effectively address performance issues in a timely manner.
Provide relevant technical coaching and guide engineering trade-offs.
Coordinate and deliver performance reviews. Drive professional development via hands-on learning, mentoring experiences, rotations as applicable.
Hire talent and actively engage in recruiting processes.
Coordinate with vendors to ensure external talent management, on-boarding and transitions are performed in a highly effective manner.
May lead efforts to evaluate, select and implement new technologies to enhance application or platform.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in technical or business discipline.
Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in a practice relevant domain including delivering software solutions in an agile environment.
Minimum 3 years in a leadership role preferred.
Proven ability to create a healthy team culture, build fully engaged staff and gain technical staff's buy-in on the impact of their work.
Hands-on experience managing cloud native infrastructure-based operations and infrastructure as code, devops, CICD based solutions.
Able to manage complex technology development concepts, capabilities and maturity.
Excellent analytical ability, consultative communication, presentation and management skills, strong judgment and ability to effectively liaise with cross-functional stakeholders and optimize teams.
In-depth knowledge of technology standards and guidelines; knowledge of management concepts, practices and techniques; thorough knowledge of business functions and operations, objectives and strategies.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in technical or business discipline.
Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in a practice relevant domain including delivering software solutions in an agile environment.
Minimum 3 years in a leadership role preferred.
Proven ability to create a healthy team culture, build fully engaged staff and gain technical staff's buy-in on the impact of their work.
Hands-on experience managing cloud native infrastructure-based operations and infrastructure as code, devops, CICD based solutions.
Able to manage complex technology development concepts, capabilities and maturity.
Excellent analytical ability, consultative communication, presentation and management skills, strong judgment and ability to effectively liaise with cross-functional stakeholders and optimize teams.
In-depth knowledge of technology standards and guidelines; knowledge of management concepts, practices and techniques; thorough knowledge of business functions and operations, objectives and strategies.

Skills

Experience with managed Kubernetes services such as Amazon EKS and/or on-premises distributions.
Practical familiarity with AI-assisted engineering and understanding of where AI adds value and where human accountability remains.
Expertise with a specific AI product is not required.

Benefits

Pay Philosophy: The typical starting salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors including skills, experience, education, certifications and location. The full salary range for this role reflects the competitive labor market value for all employees in these positions across the national market and provides an opportunity to progress as employees grow and develop within the role. Some roles at Liberty Mutual have a corresponding compensation plan which may include commission and/or bonus earnings at rates that vary based on multiple factors set forth in the compensation plan for the role.

At Liberty Mutual, our goal is to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and can thrive. We build an environment that welcomes a wide range of perspectives and experiences, with inclusion embedded in every aspect of our culture and reflected in everyday interactions. This comes to life through comprehensive benefits, workplace flexibility, professional development opportunities, and a host of opportunities provided through our Employee Resource Groups. Each employee plays a role in creating our inclusive culture, which supports every individual to do their best work. Together, we cultivate a community where everyone can make a meaningful impact for our business, our customers, and the communities we serve. We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://www.libertymutualgroup.com/about-lm/careers/benefits

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