Engineering Manager ( Contractual)

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Hybrid-

Contractual:

Lead a team responsible for ensuring our cloud migrations and on-premises exit strategy are managed to the needs of our rapidly changing business.

The work will be fast paced and challenging across new or emerging cloud technologies. Leaders who are technically forward thinking and excited about the business value the cloud can unlock. Leader, empowered to deliver and succeed

• Use expertise to drive positive outcomes for our customers
• Make impact in a highly engaged team

Key Responsibilities

• Resource will bring leadership and natural trouble shooting experience along with a strong customer focus to support cloud environments.
• Resource will use your experience in ensuring support practices and processes are applied for managing cloud migrations
• Great communication skills are needed to engage effectively with asset teams across the entire business. Individuals will be a key contributor in cloud delivery by providing ongoing design advice for our cloud migrations.
• We believe in automating manual tasks with the right tools - Resource will have a keen eye for process optimisation and will be able to identify these opportunities.
• Aside from technical skills, the resource would be a strong mentor and coach for peers inside and outside of the team showing technical and thought leadership. Individuals enjoy imparting knowledge and skills as well as running knowledge sharing workshops to uplift the team.
• Resource embrace new ideas and approaches and enjoy healthy discussions around finding positive outcomes
• Some key challenges that resources will face are around scaling delivery and onboarding of asset teams. With these challenges come opportunities to develop deep and lasting working relationships.

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrable experience leading an Engineering or Infrastructure team in delivery
• Being an enabler - setting the direction and being able to remove blockers
• Proven experience in managing a diverse team, with the ability and passion for mentoring and upskilling
• Previous experience with people leadership, resource management, team building and hiring
• Data and detailed focused delivery with the ability to produce accurate reporting on status, blockers, throughput and sprint cadence.
• Know how to get the best out of cloud native tools, services and concepts, to efficiently deliver workloads to the cloud.
• A keen interest in setting the team up to use automation - where appropriate - to not only speed up the delivery of services but also improve the day-to-day repeatability and consistency in infrastructure deployments and workload configurations.
• Understanding the importance of, and experience with, infrastructure-as-code development
• Understanding of cloud change management practices with an awareness of compliance and security standards.
• Excellent engagement skills, managing and coordinating between partners, acknowledging Security, Network, Architecture and Service Management requirements.