Engineering Manager

Job Description

About CenturyLink
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is the second largest U.S. communications provider to global enterprise customers. With customers in more than 60 countries and an intense focus on the customer experience, CenturyLink strives to be the world’s best networking company by solving customers’ increased demand for reliable and secure connections. The company also serves as its customers’ trusted partner, helping them manage increased network and IT complexity and providing managed network and cyber security solutions that help protect their business.

The Software Engineering Manager is responsible for helping to design and implement our vision for the future of the CenturyLink. They have experience with software development, product delivery, agile, DevOps and cloud computing. They are capable of leading their team by example and by contribution, as they develop and ship features. This role requires a love of learning and problem solving, and the ability to guide a team towards implementing architectures and solutions.

• Lead their team to deliver services and features that support CenturyLink’s various business units.
• Collaborate with the product owner and their team to prioritize delivery and clarify requirements in terms of testability, consistency, and completeness.
• Advocate, adopt and coach their team on lean, agile, and DevOps engineering practices.
• Support their teammates through HR processes such as career growth, performance reviews, and blocker removal.
• Work alongside others on the team to provide architectural and design guidance.
• Design and help their team design solutions that include cloud computing, infrastructure, distributed systems, microservices orientated patterns, security and/or automation.
• Embrace and model a culture that promotes an empowered team environment.
• Acts a servant leader to support their team.

• Bachelors or equivalent education and experience
• Typically 5-7 years related experience and 1+ years previous manager level leadership experience preferred

Technical Skills : Good understanding of agile practices, Experience leading agile teams, Cloud native development, Infrastructure solutions, Distributed systems, Modern SQL and NoSQL databases, Delivery lifecycle automation, Object oriented or functional language development skills, Test driven development, Security analysis and implementation, Open source solutions, Technology compliance and risk managemen

Behavioural Skills : Value - Led Accountability, Customer Focussed Agility and Empowered Teams

Alternate Location: US-Colorado-Broomfield; US-Colorado-Littleton

Requisition # : 213148

This job may require successful completion of an online assessment. A brief description of the assessments can be viewed on our website at http://find.centurylink.jobs/testguides/

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