Engineering Manager, SRE; Meraki Platform Developer

Meet the Team

The SRE Pipelines Team, part of the SRE Engineering Enablement org
is responsible for
building and running automated, fast, and reliable CI platforms and Dev Environments that allow our 1200+ engineers to test, build, deploy, and
observe
all of
the services and infrastructure used by Meraki. Meraki's high growth rate means our processes and tooling must be highly scalable and efficient. The primary goal of this team is to enable our engineering team's work to be as joyful and efficient as possible by simplifying their
user-experience . Happy engineers are productive
engineers
and we are striving to transform our toolchain to apply the best of modern Dev Ops tools tooling and practices, bringing to bear open source and best-in-class platforms wherever possible.

As a manager at Meraki, you will provide architectural leadership, review code and designs, and debug existing features. You will be a strong mentor, nurturing a collaborative environment where your team can do their best work. In this highly technical role you will also make your own direct contributions to our code base, but your primary focus will be on team execution and development.

Holding regular one-on-ones with your team, ongoing coaching and mentorship, writing performance evaluations, and compensation planning.

Helping your team navigate decisions between in-house solutions and open source products; striking a balance between self-learning, formal training, conferences, and commercial support.

Be an advocate for security best practices in the tools and processes that your team develops.

Be a champion for SRE practices within your own team and across the wider engineering organization. Work with other engineering managers to grow our culture of automation and reliability.

Work with your tech lead to develop a 2-3 year roadmap for automation of maintenance and capacity planning efforts; additionally, assurances around our SLAs.

Working with your senior individual contributors to identify and scope areas for improvement; such as migrating from a vast collection of homegrown configuration management scripts to a modern, scalable configuration management tool. (We picked ansible)

You are interested in a leadership role because it allows you to work closely with others to help them achieve their best. You have a year of experience leading a team of 3+ people, or you're a senior individual contributor looking to move into a management role.

You have 5+ years of experience developing systems for large-scale production environments. Our stack is primarily ansible, elk, ruby and bash, but your experience might be with comparable tools.

You have experience building and supporting rapidly growing systems that balance time to market, usability, reliability, and technical debt.

You are never satisfied by just seeing something work. Your curiosity drives you to peek behind the curtain to gain a deeper understanding of what’s going on.

You are experienced with a variety of tools that help you manage, understand, and debug large, complex distributed systems.

Are interested in a leadership role because it allows you to work closely with others to help them achieve their best.

Have a software engineering background or an Infrastructure/SRE background. (Background in containerization is a big plus.)

Have experience leading teams that are tasked with owning and building CI platforms and pipelines (ex. Git Lab, Jenkins, Git, Teamcity, etc) and tools for large engineering organizations (1200+ engineers).

Familiarity with DORA and SPACE published Dev Ops measurement metrics.

Have inspired and guided teams to significant improvements and evolution in developer efficiency through automation and tooling using a bottom-up prioritization/planning process.

Have formal project management qualifications, or experience successfully coordinating large, multi-team projects.

Believe that development and operations are best carried out in close co-operation; all our teams are developers, and own what they create.

SRE, Site Reliability Engineering, Engineering Enablement, Release Engineering,…