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Equinix
Equinix

Director of Product Software Architecture and Eng

Job summary
Permanent contract
Salary: $200K to 360K
Experience: > 10 years
Skills & expertise
Stakeholder engagement
Leadership
DevSecOps
DevOps principles
Collaboration and teamwork
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Equinix
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Job description

  • We are seeking an experienced Director, Product Software Architecture and Engineering to build and lead a new dev-ops team offering an AI and container management service for Equinix Managed Solutions. Duties include: Partner with product management to define requirements, service level objectives, and operational goals for the service; Integrate the service with global ordering and back-office systems to provide self-service; Work closely with EMS operations, EMS fulfillment, and Equinix network architecture to ensure the service design is compatible and well-integrated with existing infrastructure; Operate the service at an enterprise availability level as it scales out
  • Service Strategy & Platform Leadership
  • Define and execute the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Equinix’s AI and Container Management Service
  • Partner with Product Management to translate customer needs and market opportunities into platform capabilities
  • Establish Service Level Objectives (SLOs), operational standards, and platform governance
  • Drive adoption of cloud-native best practices across engineering and operations teams
  • Architecture & Engineering
  • Lead architecture and design decisions and DevOps processes for Kubernetes/OpenShift-based managed services
  • Ensure platform scalability, resiliency, security, and operational readiness
  • Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
  • Partner with network, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure seamless integration with Equinix’s global platform
  • System Optimization
  • Drives and manages change across the organization by implementing improvements to internal processes and systems
  • Proactively identifies gaps, risks and issues and influence key stakeholders across the organization to resolve them
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Responsible for providing objective and comprehensive input to senior leadership and executive decision makers
  • Solicits stakeholder input to define comprehensive improvement plans that are consistent and drive standardization across regions
  • Influences and collaborates with multiple stakeholders of multiple portfolios and projects to ensure effective release, change management and support plans are defined and communicated
  • Creates and drives broad stakeholder communications with respect to portfolio status and budget utilization
  • Develop operational KPIs and continuously improve service availability, performance, and customer experience
  • Is accountable for successful implementation of approved system improvement recommendations
  • Drives adoption of best practices and standards
  • People Management
  • Build and lead a high-performing global engineering and DevOps organization
  • Responsible for succession planning recommendations and contributing to and driving the people development strategy
  • Responsible for talent development, including quarterly conversations, career pathways conversations and individual development/growth plans
  • Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement

Preferred experience

  • Experience delivering Kubernetes or (preferred) OpenShift-based infrastructure and operating it at scale
  • Strong and demonstrable operational experience providing a highly available global service
  • Bachelor’s in Engineering preferred
  • Proven experience leading DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering teams
  • Director-level experience managing managers, delivering multiple software products or services
  • 15+ years professional experience in a software development leadership role

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