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Sr. Manager of Engineering, Infrastructure
FunkoUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Jan 2025
💰 $131,000/yr
About the role
The Senior Manager of Engineering is responsible for the effective and efficient management of IT Infrastructure systems, globally. This position will lead the team to optimize Funko’s existing on-premises infrastructure while developing, designing and deploying a more Global Cloud-Focused infrastructure to allow for global expansion. Candidate must have previous success in leading teams with operation readiness with focus on optimization and automation. This individual will have a diversified background technical infrastructure experience, demonstrated project management acumen, and excellent vendor management skills. This candidate will make team development, skills improvement, and career advancement a priority for the Engineering Team.Candidate will possess a service-oriented management style with the ability to multi-task and keep the team organized. Will lead the team efficiently by prioritizing tasks and projects while ensuring the stability of the environment. The individual will continue to develop global monitoring, alerting, and maintenance systems to improve visibility to infrastructure health. The candidate will collaborate with cross-functional leadership to craft the global infrastructure strategy and lead successful execution. The individual will help their team grow their technical abilities and experience, to ensure the cross-functional redundancy within the team.What You’ll Do:
- Lead team of Engineers and Systems Administrators providing managerial support and guidance to ensure operational readiness and systems availability
- Design, build and support global Infrastructure resources; including On-Prem, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS platforms and systems
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Engineering team ensure projects and tasks stay on-track, participate in Agile working methodology
- Prioritize tasks, projects, and support to ensure balance is consistent with personal and departmental goals.
- Lead team to provide support for internal incidents or cross-functional support - maintaining a level of support that is performative and consistent.
- Define and Report on KPIs and SLAs, adjust to keep them achievable and sustainable
- Provide quarterly reports on system availability and uptime, keeping leadership aware of future platform needs and changes to improve
- Be proactive in responding to system events working to close gaps in procedures and policies, where observed
- Provide KPIs to ensure appropriate Engineering staffing levels are maintained and workloads are equitable
- Provide Engineering leadership support for other cross-functional teams within the Technology organization to meet the global Technology team’s objectives
- Contribute to the development of departmental strategies to align with the overall Technology Strategy
- Ensure effective Disaster Recovery and Backup strategies are defined and achievable and the maximum amount of business continuity is maintained
- Leadership and support in the event of a systems outage or major incident
- Provide post-mortem support to determine the root cause of service interruptions and make recommendations on changes needed to prevent a recurrence
- Maintain system documentation and configuration details to ensure they are current and consistent with defined standards
- Provide leadership for Tier III support provided by the team to ensure escalations are handled efficiently and effectively, providing documentation and make changes to reduce repeat occurrences
- Lead continual improvement programs for operations procedures and ticket handling, allowing the team to be more efficient and successful
- Maintain security and compliance standards defined, remediating gaps and improve processes as needed
- Provide budgetary oversight for equipment, software, cloud-infra spend, performing periodic analysis on equipment refreshes and platform optimization
- Work with other leaders to provide training and development of team members
- Manage relationships with vendors, consultants, contractors to ensure Funko goals and strategy are maintained
- Support the development of RFPs and SOWs to ensure technical requirements are correct and scope is accurate
- Continually review new technologies, document findings, conduct pilots and evaluate multiple vendors, make recommendations, and develop business cases to justify the investment
- Ensure the team is using industry-defined “Best-Prac
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