Senior Manager, Central Cloud Infrastructure

Metropolis is an artificial intelligence company that uses computer vision technology to enable frictionless, checkout-free experiences in the real world. Today, we are reimagining parking to enable millions of consumers to just "drive in and drive out." We envision a future where people transact in the real world with a speed, ease and convenience that is unparalleled, even online. Tomorrow, we will power checkout-free experiences anywhere you go to make the everyday experiences of living, working and playing remarkable - giving us back our most valuable asset, time.

Metropolis is seeking a Senior Manager to the Central Cloud Infrastructure team: the pivotal engineering group that governs cloud usage, manages foundational elements of the cloud, develops shared tooling for managing cloud resources, supports other teams through consultancy, and ensures the cloud is secure / meets compliance requirements. With a holistic perspective on Metropolis's cloud ecosystem the team provides support for sub-systems such as workload orchestration, data persistence, observability, and endpoint access. In this role you will lead a team of engineers in creating a substrate of systems, developing best practices, and engineering breakthroughs that accelerate other teams while maintaining the health of Metropolis's cloud and increasing the velocity of the CCI team itself. As a senior member of the Advanced Technologies Group you will provide technical as well as both intra- and inter- team leadership to find optimal solutions and strategies for a diverse set of areas of concern at various timeframes and a growing suite of verticals.

• Facilitate the further development by team members of overall team strategy and scope for various timeframes and directly contribute to that planning
• Support the tactical coordination of work-streams and prioritization of items within those streams across team members based on technical dependencies, business urgency, and other considerations
• Ensure talent development by identifying opportunities for and supporting team members' participation in technical and leadership growth opportunities
• Foster a collaborative atmosphere that delivers business value at an increasing velocity
• Maximize the utility of engineering deliverables (code, documentation, etc.) by promoting their socialization, identifying opportunities for further value extraction, and enabling reusability
• Aid CCI team members by providing timely and relevant knowledge of the priorities / plans of other teams by maintaining informative communications and collaborative relations across the company
• Help broadcast the goals, activities, and requirements of the team and provide meaningful measures of success and progress to upper management
• Be a stakeholder for the cloud and related systems with a vision for the long-term health, performance, efficiency, and utility of these resources
• Participate in an on-call system to handle high urgency issues

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or a relevant engineering discipline
• 8+ years of experience with at least 2+ years of experience leading and managing cloud infrastructure related engineering teams
• 2+ years of experience as a hands-on senior, staff or principal engineer before transitioning into managing teams
• A inter- and intra- team facilitator mindset while recognizing the technical and organizational leadership role possible of a central cloud infrastructure team
• Experience with meeting compliance requirements for cloud environments
• Experience crafting disaster recovery plans and architecting technical solutions
• Track record of successfully developing cloud infrastructure that meets product requirements
• Technical experience with AWS, Terraform, Terraform wrappers, Kubernetes, EKS, Helm, containerization, SQL databases, cloud networking, and Python
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences

• Previous experience working inside innovative, high-growth environments is a plus

When you join Metropolis, you’ll join a team of world-class product leaders and engineers, building an ecosystem of technologies at the intersection of parking, mobility, and real estate. Our goal is to build an inclusive culture where everyone has a voice and the best idea wins. You will play a key role in building and maintaining this culture as our organization grows. The anticipated base salary for this position is $200,000.00 USD to $250,000.00 USD annually. The actual base salary offered is determined by a number of variables, including, as appropriate, the applicant's qualifications for the position, years of relevant experience, distinctive skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location of residence and/or place of employment. Base salary is one component of Metropolis’s total compensation package, which may also include access to or eligibility for healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, a lucrative stock option plan, bonus plans and more. #LI-NM1 #LI-Onsite