Engr Program Management

Overview

Engr Program Management 3

San Diego, California

Onsite

Contract

Up to $78.59/hr

Title: Engineering Program Management 3

Role: Technical Program Manager

Location: San Diego, CA (92127)

We are seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager (TPM) to support large-scale, highly available commerce and payment systems in a cloud-based environment. This role focuses on driving Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) initiatives that ensure availability, resiliency, scalability, and performance across a complex portfolio of services.

As part of a reliability-focused engineering organization, you will work closely with service development, platform, security, and global operations teams to enable seamless delivery of new technical and customer-facing features. You will act as a technical leader, proactively identifying opportunities to improve processes, systems, and operational excellence in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate brings a strong balance of technical depth, program management expertise, and interpersonal skills, and is comfortable leading large, cross-functional programs.

• Drive delivery of SRE and reliability initiatives across 90+ commerce and payment-related services in a cloud (AWS) environment.

• Lead technical and operational programs in a fast-paced, collaborative, and distributed engineering organization.

• Manage delivery schedules, milestones, dependencies, and risks across multiple teams and products.

• Partner with engineering teams specializing in platform hosting, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and data services to improve application resiliency and performance.

• Advocate for and implement continuous improvement in processes, tooling, and automation.

• Simplify and clearly communicate complex technical problems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership.

• Act as a bridge between engineers and decision-makers, enabling alignment and informed decision-making.

• Promote and enforce core SRE principles, including availability, resiliency, observability, capacity planning, elasticity, supportability, and automation.

• Participate in a rotational on-call program, responding to and resolving production incidents.

• Conduct, document, and present root cause analyses and post-incident reviews to drive learning and prevention.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 3+ years of experience in Technical Program Management within an agile software development environment.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, including building, integrating, or managing applications.

• 3+ years of experience working in a highly visible or mission-critical production software environment.

• 3+ years of hands-on software engineering or systems support experience (e.g., Java and/or C++ services).

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS).

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog, Cloud Watch, Splunk).

• Proven ability to manage cross-functional projects, dependencies, and release schedules.

• Strong analytical skills with a high sense of ownership and accountability.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and judgment abilities.

• Agile / Scrum methodologies

• Technical program and project management

• Excellent verbal and written communication

• Cloud, reliability, and infrastructure concepts (technical skills listed above are a plus)

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family

• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits

• Vision Benefits

• Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance

• Hospital Indemnity Insurance

• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options

• Paid Sick Time Leave

• Legal and Identity Protection Plans

• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy.

Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Posted by: VMS Sourcing

• Project / Program Management