Software Engineering Manager
Software Engineering Manager
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JOB DETAILS
BAND: E
DEPARTMENT: Product Engineering & Data Enablement Dev Operations
SALARY: 00 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-Time
LOCATION: Newcastle or Salford - Hybrid
Were happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The BBC Dev Operations function is looking to appoint a Software Engineering Manager to play a key leadership role responsible for driving automation platform reliability operational visibility and security across the BBC Product Group.
This new role will establish a multidisciplinary team supporting platforms and federated engineering teams ensuring that digital products are robust scalable and cost-effective. By building and maintaining automation observability and CI/CD pipelines and by championing best practices in reliability engineering the team enables faster safer software delivery and rapid incident response.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT
- Lead and Develop a High-Performing DevOps Engineers recruit and manage a multidisciplinary team responsible for Automation Observability/Monitoring Security & Compliance Automation CI/CD Pipeline Reliability/Resilience FinOps Root Cause/Incident Response Dashboarding/Reporting and 24/7 Runbook & On-Call Coordinators.
- Drive Platform Automation and Operational Excellence - own and evolve automation strategies tooling and processes that increase deployment velocity reliability and consistency across centralised and federated engineering teams.
- Champion Reliability Engineering and Incident Response - build and embed best practices in site reliability engineering including proactive monitoring incident detection root cause analysis and continuous improvement to minimise downtime and user impact.
- Enhance Observability and Operational Visibility - oversee the design implementation and evolution of monitoring alerting dashboarding and reporting capabilities that provide actionable insights and enable rapid response to issues.
- Embed Security Compliance and Cost Management - ensure security and compliance are integral to all DevOps practices. Collaborate with relevant teams to automate compliance checks and manage cloud/platform costs effectively through FinOps practices.
- Drive Collaboration Across Engineering Teams - work closely with both platform teams and product teams to support diverse delivery models promote knowledge sharing and ensure alignment on reliability and operational standards.
- Support 24/7 Runbook and On-Call Operations - oversee the creation and maintenance of runbooks and on-call processes ensuring robust support for live services and effective handover between teams.
- Contribute to Strategic SRE Evolution - play a key role in shaping the long-term approach to SRE within the BBC Product Group including the potential organisational design and the evolution of team structure and responsibilities.
- Promote a Culture of Continuous Improvement - foster an environment of learning experimentation and continuous improvement championing automation resilience and operational excellence at scale.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Proven experience leading DevOps and/or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams in large-scale complex digital or technology environments.
- Deep expertise in automation CI/CD pipeline design and operation and modern infrastructure management (cloud-native containerisation infrastructure-as-code).
- Strong background in implementing and evolving observability monitoring and incident response practices to drive high reliability and rapid recovery.
- Demonstrated experience embedding security and compliance controls into DevOps workflows and managing platform or cloud costs (FinOps).
- Track record of collaborating across centralised and federated teams bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver shared operational goals.
- Excellent leadership communication and stakeholder management skills including mentoring multidisciplinary engineering teams and driving cultural change.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
