About the job
The Red Hat Ansible Engineering team is looking for a Manager with a proven record of guiding a high-performing team of experienced engineers. In this role you will lead a team of talented developers, empower the team to meet ambitious goals, and be accountable for their work while always looking for opportunities to help members grow as engineers and future leaders. To be successful in this role, you'll need to strategically manage the balance between advancing the business and advocating for your team, while embracing our core values of being kind, being accountable, and being open. We provide an enjoyable and engaging work environment, with an opportunity for you to collaborate with dynamic and diverse agile teams, working around the world to create value for our customers and partners in an open source way. This is a great opportunity to craft and sharpen your skills while working with a wide range of modern languages, frameworks, and technologies. As a Manager, you will become a part of Red Hat's culture that makes us unique in the industry and you'll work with communities passionate about open source software. The Red Hat office in Durham, NC is the preferred work location, but well-qualified home-based applicants will also be considered. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What you will do

• Use your technical and management experience to lead the team to achieve our organization's goals
• Lead the software development team with a focus on a hybrid cloud software delivery model
• Collaborate with management and other leaders to continuously identify and implement team process improvements by soliciting feedback from all areas of the business to aid in making the needed improvements
• Build and support Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in alignment with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Set reachable goals for team members and provide guidance to encourage work productivity
• Provide estimates and initial assessment for proposed development efforts
• Work closely with product management to achieve business priorities, while balancing your team's need to address improvements, technical debt, and other engineering imperatives

What you will bring

• 5+ years of experience in building and delivering software products
• 3+ years of managing a team of software engineers
• Great ability to coach developers and helping them improve their skills and grow their careers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize, and work under pressure
• Comfortable in an agile, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), and DevOps work style
• Experience with project management tools and methodologies
• Proven troubleshooting skills with a passion for problem solving, investigation, and learning new technologies
• Modest and open in order to respect the work and progress which the team has already achieved

The following are considered a plus:

• Good understanding of cloud technologies; proven experience working in private and public cloud or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environments such as AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Knowledge of Ansible, Python, and Linux
• Experience managing a geographically distributed team
• Development experience in a professional setting, preferably in a senior-level role within SaaS or Enterprise software organizations

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments. Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators, application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital future.
Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account - healthcare and dependent care
• Health Savings Account - high deductible medical plan
• Retirement 401(k) with employer match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental leave plans for all new parents
• Leave benefits including disability, paid family medical leave, and paid military leave
• Additional benefits including employee stock purchase plan, family planning reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, transportation expense account, employee assistance program, and more!

Note: These benefits are only applicable to full time, permanent associates at Red Hat located in the United States.