Engineering Manager

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

Observability is key to building a quality product, helping the business move fast and resolving issues as soon as possible. The team is responsible for designing, building and running a comprehensive observability stack for a diverse range of products and architectures. In addition, this team leads the charge on defining good observability practices company wide and making it easier to build a better product.

What’s in it for you?
This role is within our Global Online Experience (GOX) organization, which is using digital technologies to reinvent the experience of becoming, and being, a Volvo customer. You will work with an extraordinary DevOps/Monitoring engineering management challenge, bringing together software engineering and product development, operations management, and team leadership in a single high-value role.

You will lead a site reliability engineering team in an agile environment building solutions, cultivating a learning culture and developing a diverse and inclusive team of engineers to solve problems which oftentimes have not been solved anywhere.

Who you are:
You are someone who has demonstrated experience building highly scalable platforms and fault tolerant systems across a range of technologies, including Linux, Apache, MongoDB, Python, Oracle RDBMS, Redis, Postgres and open tracing. As a SRE manager you have Track record of building and managing high-performance SRE teams.

What you’ll do:
You will manage a team of Service Reliability Engineers located locally and abroad while still providing direct, on-keyboard impact. You’ll solve problems related to complex cloud-infrastructure automation, multi-region networking, authentication/authorization, logging/metrics collection at scale. To provide tooling and frameworks for engineering teams for transaction tracing, performance analysis, business monitoring and alerting.

Lead/contribute to engineering efforts from design to implementation, solving complex technical challenges around supervising distributed systems at scale. Drive adoption of standard methodologies in monitoring, alerting, and performance.Work closely with development teams to implement monitoring & observability instrumentation within their platforms.

Qualifications
* Bachelors in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
* Distributed Systems Development (e.g. asynchronous communication patterns, consensus algorithms, distributed transactions).
* Atleast 5+ years of services programming (e.g. Go-lang, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, Python, Ruby).
* 3+ years of experience with monitoring and alerting systems (Prometheus, Thanos).
* Experience designing and building reliable systems at scale.
* Deep knowledge of Linux based systems.
* Experience with distributed tracing systems, metrics and log management.
* At least 3 years’ experience with Container Orchestration (Kubernetes).
* Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills.
* Experience with IAAC (Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation).


How to learn more and apply
Does this sound like your next challenge? Welcome with your application by submitting your resume and cover letter via the link below, no later than Feburary 20th, 2022. If you have any questions regarding the position or recruitment process you are welcome to contact hiring manager Anand.Kannan@volvocars.com or Senior Recruiter Rinor.alihajdaraj@volvocars.com.