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The Core Engineering and Operations Manager is a driving force behind the evolution of the Enterprise Platform, ensuring the platform and processes advance inline with business requirements. This senior role has accountability for the run function of the department, including: Incident; Demand; Service Request. As well as responsibility for: Continuous Improvement. The engineers work within an SRE environment but are governed through ITIL. It is for the Core Engineering and Operations Manager to bridge this gap, which will involve reporting and continuously improving processes.
Job Responsibility:
Provide line management to the Core Engineering Squad and management of the Operations team within Enterprise platforms
Provide non-technical coaching and guidance to the team and support them in building their careers
Manage the in-hours and out-of-hours operational rotas
Maintain the Core Engineering backlog
Manage the Core Engineering sprints
Day-to-day vendor management
Manage vendor contract renewals
Define continuous improvement backlog priorities
Define and maintain Continuous Improvement epics
Attend demand prioritisation forums and schedule new demand
Receive and manage suggestions from the Principal Engineer
Escalating non-standard demand to evaluative engineering
Working with the Product Manager, Principal Engineer and Delivery Manager to define the product roadmap
Managing demand satisfaction surveys
Managing operational escalations from the business
Audit and compliance management
Approving the invocation of DR in an emergency situation
Lifecycle management
Working with the licence manager to ensure licenses are managed
Defining and running Core Engineering meetings
Bridging the gap between SRE and ITIL
Continuous process improvement
Prioritising Core Engineering urgent work
Requesting Evaluative Engineering time from the Delivery Manager for non-standard requests
Working with Product Manager to ensure operating costs and forecasts are up-to-date and within budget
Keeps across and understands all operational, demand, continuous improvement and service request tasks and issues
Organises engagements with other technology teams as required
Leads demand discovery engagements
Manages relationships with application teams across the business
Organising Core Engineering/Operations events and meetings
Distributing operations work to ensure balance during busy and quiet periods
Requirements:
Extensive experience in roles involving line management
Experience of managing multiple projects simultaneously, keeping to time and budget
Demonstrable stakeholder management skills
Experience of working in cloud-based teams
Extensive knowledge of both SRE and ITIL
An understanding of creative leadership
Experience of Scrum and Kanban-based agile delivery approaches, tools and measurement
Nice to have:
Experience of working in a SRE team
Experience of engaging with a range of stakeholders including senior management
Experience of liaising between technical experts and non-technical or business stakeholders
Experience of vendor management
A non-technical understanding of relevant technologies
Experience of contributing towards roadmap development
An understanding of lifecycle, demand, audit and compliance and license management
An understanding of continuous improvement
An excellent understanding of FinOps
What we offer:
Flexible working with a range of options
Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
Annual bonus opportunity
Competitive pension contribution
Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life