Software Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering (Austin or San Antonio)

Responsibilities

H-E-B Digital is seeking new team members (Partners)! Since our inception, we’ve been investing heavily in our customers’ digital experience, reinventing how they find inspiration from food, how they make food decisions, and how they ultimately get food into their homes. This is an exciting time to join H-E-B Digital, and we’re hiring across the stack: front-end web and mobile, full-stack, and backend engineering. We’re using the best available technologies to deliver modern, engaging, reliable, and scalable experiences to meet the needs of our growing audience. Our digital solutions are growing in popularity and adoption—like Curbside and Home Delivery—so you’ll get the opportunity to define the user experience for millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of Partners. If you’re someone who enjoys taking on new challenges, working in a rapidly changing environment, learning new skills, and applying it all to solve large and impactful business problems, we want you as part of our team.  

 

Our Partners thrive The H-E-B Way. In the Manager, Cloud Engineering job, that means you have a... 

 

HEART FOR PEOPLE... you have a passion for mentorship and guidance, and love for the direct person-to-person interactions that create strong bonds between teams  HEAD FOR BUSINESS... you have an ownership mentality and a consistent track record of timely delivery of high-quality software  PASSION FOR RESULTS... the ability to guide the discussion, remove roadblocks, and provide guardrails for your team as they identify challenges and propose solutions 

 

Overview  The Cloud Engineering team is seeking an experienced, cloud savvy Engineering Manager that has a software development first mindset to help drive and mature our Public Cloud platform product. This Manager’s efforts will result in improving our custom-built platform experience by leveraging key cloud technologies to automate onboarding, security, user management, configurations & operations. We are looking for a driven leader to help build out tooling and applications to promote self-service, repeatability and is impacting the day-to-day work of hundreds of application developers.  

 

As a Manager, Cloud Engineering you'll raise up your team, helping develop individual careers and achieving goals, addressing common team problems, coaching, and mentoring the engineers. You will lead a skilled, highly motivated team that builds, maintains, and improves the orchestration platforms across our public cloud, ensuring optimum operational reliability and secure workload execution, while offering a streamlined experience to application developers.  You'll work closely with stakeholders from product and design, and other engineering leaders, to provide high-quality, repeatable technology delivery for the digital engineering organization. You'll provide leadership across all aspects of the Agile development lifecycle as a Public Cloud Product Owner to maintain a high bar for technology, people, and process.  

 

Who you are 

• You have 4+ years of experience working in a Software Engineering organization 
• You have 3-5 years of experience managing high-output engineers  
• Proven track record in leading a team to ship features and products 
• A background in Infrastructure engineering- the ability to understand the team’s technical challenges and architecture is the key to success 
• Strong experience in Infrastructure as Code
• You have 3+ years’ experience working with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP preferred) 
• Oversee the design and development of RESTful APIs along with documentation, testing and monitoring mindset
• You have an expert understanding of development Agile methodologies and processes 
• You have a customer mindset and proven experience guiding Engineering teams to deliver products that meet customers where they are 
• You have a bias to solve problems with code, ensuring computers do the repeated work and humans do the interesting work 
• You are adept in knowledge of system architecture and design patterns 
• You proactively communicate information that is timely, accurate, and catered to the audience 
• You have a passion for growing others and regularly celebrate success 
• You understand that clear is kind and establish fast feedback loops with teammates and peers 
• You approach problem-solving holistically and consider solutions through a combination of technology and processes 
• You can work as a Product Owner mentality in delivering and meeting customer satisfaction 

What You'll Do (Management, Design & Development) 

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