HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.
A Career at HARMAN
As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.
A Career at HARMAN TECH Services (HTS)
We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HTS, you solve challenges by creating innovative solutions.
Combine the physical and digital, making technology a more dynamic force to solve challenges and serve humanity’s needs
Work at the convergence of cross channel UX, cloud, insightful data, IoT and mobility
Empower companies to create new digital business models, enter new markets, and improve customer experiences
About the Role
You will be part of a global SRE team responsible for providing infrastructure, CICD tools and standards for a large software project. You will take an active part in ongoing technology transformation. Work with large production systems and latest DevOps solutions. Our mission is to create efficient, reliable and secure software.
We are looking for exceptional software Team Leads to join our growing team. If you are a natural leader, like working in a technically stimulating and challenging environment, and thrive on making a significant impact within an organization then we have the perfect opportunity for you.
As a Team Lead of the embedded Site Reliability Engineering team (SRE), you will have the dual responsibility of managing and growing a team of software developers as well as being technically hands-on with regard to the development of the Engineering Platform services. This includes working closely with technical leads, product owners, and developers to drive toward a shared vision. You will be expected to actively contribute to the technical feasibility evaluations in collaboration with the product team and the engineering management team, to determine the technical approach and action plan, to deliver on set objectives with your team, and to ensure the services operate at a high-quality level. As Team Lead you will manage and drive your team, helping them in developing, task planning, and leading both on the technical and organizational aspects.
What You Will Do
- Establishing tight, open, honest, and candid communication: regular and frequent feedback processes with team members
- Ensuring that information flows efficiently between your team and the rest of the organization as necessary
- Setting performance expectations and objectives for each team member, following up on these objectives, and conducting the yearly evaluation
- Monitoring all critical services, sharing on-call duties, troubleshooting, and addressing problems as they arise (including any needed changes in code, topology, resources, or configuration)
- Ensuring timely resolution of critical production-affecting issues, recommending and prioritizing prevention actions, and communicating these efficiently to stakeholders
- Ensuring training, onboarding, and integration of all new team members; assigning mentors
- Actively contributing and participating in recruitment activities for new team members
- Actively participating in domains and engineering alignment meetings including Agile/Scrum ceremonies as a facilitator and enabler
- Ensuring well-documented engineering practices are adopted, owned, and followed by the team
- Co-architect new services, including failure tolerance and self-healing by design, as well as establishing clear scaling-out paths
- Evaluating and benchmarking new solutions, establishing capacity and growth plans
- Co-implement deployment and configuration strategies for new services, including provisioning resources, and go-live
- Administration of services, whether built in-house or from external vendors
- Continuous improvement of internal services for ease of packaging, configuration, and deployment
- Support various SRE teams during the development activities
- Work prioritization and planning
- You will help identifying the project requirements, coordinating with the Project Owner in reviewing timelines and deliverables
- Guiding SRE team through technical issues and challenges
- Support the organization during the ongoing software delivery transformation in order to improve product quality, development efficiency and observability
- Introduce new and improve existing tools and processes used to build, release and deploy software
- Create and implement software delivery standards and best practices across the organization
- Take a leading role in assigned tasks
What You Need to Be Successful
- At least 6 years as a DevOps or SRE experience
- At least 1 year experience as a Tech Lead, SRE Lead or DevOps manager
- Effective communication and collaboration skills
- Proficiency in English and Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) required to communicate in a global team to build solid relationships with peers.
- Very good analytical skills and the ability to creatively find solutions to complex problems.
- Self-organized and the ability to handle multiple competing priorities.
- Ability to navigate through ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong knowledge of both SRE, DevOps and Agile principles and how it applies to software engineering practices.
- Practical experience in:
- Amazon Web Services
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CI/CD - Continuous Integration and Deployment solutions (GitHub Actions, Concourse, Jenkins, Circle Ci)
- Very good knowledge of Linux environment
- Skills in Bash programming, as well as other script-based languages (Python)
- Knowledge of basic network protocols and services
- B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in the field of Informatics, Telecommunication or related subject
- Flexibility, collaboration, resourcefulness, and a positive attitude are the keys to success in this role
Bonus Points if You Have
- Programming in Go
- Working experience in all aspects of software engineering, including coding, architecture, and infrastructure.
- Knowledge of protocols and data exchange formats: HTTP/1.1/2.0, RESTful API
What We Offer
- Flexible work environment, allowing for part-time remote work for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location
- Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)
- Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
- Competitive wellness benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development
About HARMAN: Where Innovation Unleashes Next-Level Technology
Ever since the 1920s, we’ve been amplifying the sense of sound. Today, that legacy endures, with integrated technology platforms that make the world smarter, safer, and more connected.
Across automotive, lifestyle, and tech services, we create innovative technologies that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences. Our renowned automotive and lifestyle solutions can be found everywhere, from the music we play in our cars and homes to venues that feature today’s most sought-after performers, while our tech services serve humanity by addressing the world’s ever-evolving needs and demands. Marketing our award-winning portfolio under 16 iconic brands, such as JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel, we set ourselves apart by exceeding the highest engineering and design standards for our customers, our partners and each other.
If you’re ready to innovate and do work that makes a lasting impact, join our talent community today!
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HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
