Senior Engineering Manager, Kentik

• 6+ years of SRE/DevOps experience, with at least 3 years of managing engineering teams
• Strong hands-on technical expertise with infrastructure technologies including:
• Network fundamentals and web-based protocols (HTTPS, TCP/IP, DNS)
• API design patterns and microservice architectures
• Message brokers (e.g., Kafka)
• Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Observability stacks (e.g., VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, ELK)
• Workload orchestration systems (e.g., Nomad)
• Configuration management and IaC tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Terraform)
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Cloud Service Providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Proven ability to write code and contribute to automation efforts for scalable systems
• Demonstrated ownership and bias for execution in critical infrastructure environments
• Strong customer orientation and stakeholder engagement
• Experience implementing SLO frameworks and reliability practices
• Proven incident management leadership and best-practice implementation
• Excellent communication and influence skills

Desirable

• As the Sr Engineering Manager, Infrastructure SRE - you will lead our team responsible for the platform that supports our product offerings
• This is a hands-on "player/coach" role requiring both technical depth and leadership maturity
• You'll not only lead the team and implement our SRE vision, but also contribute directly to various automation and reliability efforts in an IaC environment
• This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a critical function in a growing company
• Build and lead a high-performing, distributed Infrastructure SRE team
• Contribute directly to IaC automation and reliability efforts that help us scale safely
• Drive execution with ownership and accountability for platform reliability
• Develop and mentor team members, creating growth opportunities
• Champion a customer-first mindset for both external and internal stakeholders
• Implement SRE best practices that make sense for Kentik’s unique environment
• Support incident management, including on-call rotations and postmortem processes
• Partner with other engineering leaders to ensure seamless operations through the development of collaborative reliability initiatives
• Foster data-driven decision making and measurable outcomes
• Develop effective engagement models with product engineering teams as your primary stakeholders
• Contribute to maturing our SRE practices and governance as we scale