Platform Engineering Manager, Shared Services

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Job Description

The Shared Services team within SUSE IT Platform Engineering operates the portfolio of tools the company runs on: source control (GitLab GitHub Gitea) CI/CD monitoring (Zabbix Prometheus Grafana) Bugzilla email infrastructure backup (Bareos) and a long tail of services under active rationalization. The teams mandate is to keep these services reliable integrate shadow IT into managed SaaS and reduce undifferentiated operational lift.

Were hiring a Manager who can set technical direction unblock a junior-to-mid team and bring modern operating practices including responsible adoption of AI tooling.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a junior-to-mid engineering team. Provide architectural direction and technical mentorship. The team has strong ops chops but often needs senior judgment on design and prioritization.

• Set technical direction across the portfolio. Decide what to invest in what to decommission what to migrate to SaaS whats good enough as-is. Reinforce the teams tenets: focus on value over polish.

• Own the service portfolio as product manager. Prioritize the backlog manage stakeholder expectations trade off feature work ops and toil reduction.

• Drive operational excellence. SLO-based reliability MTTR reduction structured incident response.

• Lead AI adoption for the team. Identify and prioritize practical Agentic AI use cases such as assisted coding runbook automation knowledge retrieval ticket triage etc. Pilot measure scale or sunset.

• Apply FinOps thinking. Measure efficiency attribute spend eliminate undifferentiated heavy lifting favor serverless and managed services where they reduce TCO.

• Integrate shadow IT. Bring unsanctioned tooling under managed services without losing the productivity that drove people there in the first place.

• Collaborate across ITPE team broader IT organisation and other business units.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years in IT/infrastructure including 3 years managing engineering teams. Equivalent demonstrated breadth considered.

• Bachelors degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• Strong systems architecture; experience with distributed systems identity networking and how services in this portfolio actually work. Youll be the architect for a team that needs technical direction.

• High tolerance for ambiguity. Comfortable making calls without complete information. This portfolio includes services with unclear ownership fuzzy SLAs and inherited decisions. You set direction without waiting for perfect clarity.

• Track record of removing roadblocks: technical organizational cultural etc. Escalations and cross-team coordination flow through you not around you.

• AI literacy. Ability to lead a team through adoption of AI-assisted tooling (GitHub Copilot Claude Code ChatGPT Enterprise or equivalent). Can scope and evaluate GenAI use cases in an IT operations context and understands data governance and security implications. Hands-on experience using these tools yourself is a strong plus.

• Modern operating practices. SLOs error budgets DORA metrics IaC/GitOps FinOps. Awareness of AIOps capabilities and how to evaluate them.

• Pragmatism. Reinforces team tenets doesnt over-engineer.

Why Join Us

• Real ownership of a broad portfolio; you set direction across the tooling all of engineering depends on.

• Capable engineers who will grow under good leadership.

• AI adoption SaaS migration and decommissioning what doesnt earn its keep.

• 30 years of open source heritage shape how SUSE itself operates as an engineering org.

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