Software Engineering Manager jobs in Minnesota

About the job

The Red Hat Ansible Networking team is looking for an Associate Manager, Software Engineering to join us to help grow and guide a team of engineers. In this role, you will be a part of the Ansible Networking engineering team and work in close collaboration with peers often in multiple geographies to help to create and support multiple Ansible collections for the Red Hat Ansible Networking for Ansible Automation Platform. The Manager would be required to execute upstream development in Ansible Community as well as drive downstream to make product releases. You will be responsible for guiding the team to grow and sustain the pace of Ansible Networking growth, releases of Ansible collections on Automation hub, work with Product management and execute on the strategy for Seeded Content for Ansible Networking, Also work with customers.

What you will do

• Planning sprints with the Engineering team and plan releases for Networking collections.
• Work with Product management to understand the requirements, planning roadmap and execute on the strategy, then schedule and communicate these externally.
• Work with the Engineering team to ensure all collections are tested upstream and downstream and ensure quality content collections release.
• Focus on customer requirements and use cases to guide and supervise the efforts of the team to release product versions and resolve defects, in close coordination with peers.
• Work with cross-functional managers and teams across support, quality assurance, documentation, and other areas to create and deliver a high-quality service.
• Work with the open-source community and maintain a constant feedback loop from the community, and then address the feedback internally.
• Represent team’s work internally and within the upstream community. Provide guidance to the associates on their career development goal and help them grow.

What you will bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 8 years of significant software development and/or management experience
• 3 years of leading engineering teams or managing engineering teams and responsible for deliveries
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Familiar with agile or scrum methodologies
• Experience working with customers or in customer situations
• Experience in collaboration with product management and executing product vision
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience with related technologies
• Understanding of Enterprise Networking technologies and experience with related technologies.

The following are considered a plus:

• Understanding of open source development models
• Prior participation in open source community software development or leadership
• Familiarity with Networking, Cisco, Arista, Junipernetworks, VYOS, YANG, Netconf
• Familiarity with Enterprise Software development

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