Kubernetes Engineering Manager

VMware by Broadcom is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions.

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a full-stack Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform that provides a unified, self-service experience for deploying and managing virtual machines (VMs) and containers across on-premises and public cloud environments. It delivers consistent infrastructure and operations across a variety of clouds, enabling organizations to modernize their applications and optimize their cloud deployments. The Kubernetes Distribution team in VCF is focused on delivering up-to-date and secure Kubernetes and CNCF projects as packages for the vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and vSphere Supervisor.

The Kubernetes Distribution team is looking for a Kubernetes Engineering Manager with deep expertise in software and product development, Open Source Software (OSS) and Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) contribution processes and community. The role is focused on Kubernetes internals, and other related projects. In this role, you will lead software development teams for releases, security, compliance, manageability, scale, and integrations.

This position is ideal for managers who are highly experienced in Kubernetes eco-system and projects and passionate about building technology for our customers with a global community of open source engineers.

What are the primary needs, challenges, and problems you may be responsible for?

• Responsible for high quality results including costs, methods, staffing, planning, and execution
• Timely delivery of releases which meet SLAs, architecture, security, and compliance requirements
• Collaborate internally with stakeholders from product, security, infrastructure, and operations teams
• Management of risk mitigation and escalation to external teams and leadership
• Manage and define clear and reliable estimates of deliverables to be met with granular target delivery dates
• Maintain and update metrics and automation for tracking SLOs and SLAs
• Work with engineering service teams for e2e, scale and performance
• Ensure Jira and project boards are updated regularly and relevant to current team activities
• Create and improve engineering processes in collaboration with peer managers and TLs
• Provide mentorship across group of regular 1:1 session and group meetings
• Continuous team member performance evaluation and career growth development

Requirements:

• Kubernetes expertise and proven track record of team member contribution to at least 1 CNCF project and various OSS projects
• Experience with one or more cloud platform architectures
• History of leading system software projects/teams.
• Good knowledge of distributed systems, databases, algorithms, data structures.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor's degree plus 12+ years of related experience and 3 years in management

Nice to haves:

• vSphere experience
• Extensive knowledge and experience using and delivering complex container, kernel, packaging, and operating system functionality.
• Operational knowledge of Kubernetes in production environments
• Experience with relevant Kubernetes SIG projects, ie.
• Kubernetes, Cluster API, ContainerD/RunC, Cluster Autoscaler, Metrics Server, ArgoCD, Certmanager, Flux, Gateway API, Etcd, Harbor, Helm, Istio, Jaeger, KEDA, Kubeadm, Kubeflow, Kube-vip, Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper, Opentelemetry

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $141,300 - $226,000.

This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.

Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.