Position: New-”Hands On” Eng Manager/Director
Location: SF
Category: Engineering Management
Compensation: $140,000 - $170,000
Type: W2
Client Name: Confidential

Client Intro:
Profitable and Expanding! Two words that describe our client in the growing Cloud Infrastructure Services Space. In business since 2001, our client started out by providing dedicated hosting services for businesses of all sizes, and for the past year and a half they have been expanding their cloud based services. They provide 24×7x365 support & reliability.
Their services allow clients to rapidly create, deploy, balance & scale Windows & Linux cloud servers in minutes with a user friendly UI.

Job Summary:
Hands on & Technical Software Development Manager for this 110 person and growing company. This person will be responsible for a team of 10 software engineers and you will lead them in Software Development & Build/Release. You will define and lead high level implementations in an Agile Environment, including Process, Tools and Resources.

This position is *not- a pure management position; this person is expected to contribute technically to their projects.

Responsibilities:
- Manage the software development process, including task planning and code reviews
- Manages a team of release/builds engineers, including development environment management and production change reviews
- Define and establish processes for how people should work together, within your team, across engineering, and also across company departments
- Ability to form strong cross-functional relationships to provide the ability to lead a sizable project team, taking the project from start to finish.
- Provides a breadth and depth of understanding system integration and cost/time impact.
- Work closely with product management to ensure we’re building the best products
- Document design as needed for internal design reviews and coding
- Demonstrate management capabilities to provide guidance and mentorship of others

Experience Required:
- 5 years of experience managing software engineers, developing functional specifications, cost/benefits analysis of projects
- 5 years experience using iterative development methods, scrum or XP preferred
- Experience with systems programming - machine control code, etc.
- Experience developing products using server virtualization technologies (Xen, KVM highly preferred)
- 10 years expertise with server operating systems (windows and *nix), and all common internet protocols, languages, and applications
- 5 years technical project management experience and a proven track record for delivering projects on-time with limited budget and resources
- 5 years of experience working with off-shore engineering teams

*SaaS/ Hosted Delivery Experience

Experience Desired:
- Strong distributed systems and architecture knowledge, and experience with multi-tiered mission-critical systems preferred.
- Ability to manage complex technical projects.
- Demonstrates expertise in problem solving and technical innovation.
- Demonstrated experience of delivering on commitments to clients.
- Demonstrates capability of “rolling-up sleeves and getting hands dirty”.
- Ability to read and modify Java, Python, and PERL code.
- Works well in fast-paced growing environment.
- May have prior start-up experience and demonstrate ability to adapt.
- Provides excellent influential communication skills and business acumen to both an arbitrator and advocate for technical issues.
- Travel requirements limited to occasional conferences - 1-2 weeks per year total

Required Education:
- College degree in computer science or engineering (or equivalent experience)

Contact :
www.verticalmove.com/open_positions1.php?portalQuery=detail&id=7e7c8203-0\

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