Job Description

The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

Ready to lead? So are we. Come join VMwares new exciting Modern Applications Business Unit (MAPBU) team, made up of products and services under the Tanzu portfolio to help customers build, run, manage and observe their most important applications. Our teams build cloud-native observability solutions that give our customers the confidence to run their applications and workloads and to achieve their business goals on our enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform. Our team specializes in observability solutions for applications and workloads running on Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry and we are looking for a leader to help us write new chapters in this great journey.

What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?

Leading this observability engineering team you will be responsible for creating a great culture and processes to drive engineering efficiency while focusing on the wellbeing and growth of engineers and teams.

You will be responsible for delivering observability solutions at high quality with focus on customer satisfaction.

You will be collaborating with your peers, product managers and other stakeholders.

You will be leading a great team of engineers solving complex observability problems, leveraging and contributing to open source solutions while maintaining positive atmosphere and a fun environment

Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

Our observability solutions enable our customers to sleep at night knowing their platform is healthy and performant.

You will be leading a team executing against an ambitious plan of releasing a new observability solution in addition to continuing to execute support releases for existing ones..

You will be creating a culture of open communication, strong collaboration and efficient execution in a safe and fun environment..

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

Your primary responsibility will be to lead a strong engineering team. You will be fostering a culture of open communication, strong collaboration and efficient execution in a safe and fun environment.

You will be working closely with product managers and other stakeholder building plans to deliver great solutions in a competitive market.

You will be working closely with engineers, designers and managers, driving execution.

You will be working with the program leadership, presenting plans and reviewing execution.

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?

The hiring manager for this role is Mayan Weiss, a Senior Director of Engineering. Mayan is a VMware veteran with vast experience leading engineering teams and monitoring solutions.

For the past 2.5 years he enjoys working in the great Wavefront team and now he is more excited than ever as we combine VMwares observability solutions under the power of VMware Tanzu umbrella creating a huge opportunity to make great things happen.

As a team we are strong believers of Inclusion, autonomy, effective processes and employee growth and we are passionate about delivering products with high quality and strive for work life balance.

We value diversity and strive for an inclusive team. Our leadership growth processes emphasize giving opportunities for people from a variety of backgrounds. We also strive to create an inclusive environment through the language we use. We recognize that the work here is never done.

While we see each other mostly on slack and zoom during COVID time, we miss our serene campuses where we enjoy each other and the fun time we have together.

What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?

You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting https://benefits.vmware.com/document-library/new-hire-benefits/.

* Employee Stock Purchase Plan

* Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types

* Generous Time Off Programs

* 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community

* Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities

* Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)

* Healthy and local inspired snacks in all our on-site pantries

TeamTanzu

This position is eligible for TanzuChallenge referral campaign

Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Product Dev Management
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2021-02-09

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