Head of Infrastructure Engineering

Team: Enterprise Technology

Location: Palo Alto, CA

Commitment: Employee

Workplace Type: hybrid

RESPONSIBILITIES

Cultivate the success of an internationally distributed team of 40+ employees and contractors managing network infrastructure, server infrastructure, productivity tools, and MDM;

Act as a leadership figure by engaging people and caring for them;

Adapt established processes, frameworks to deliver quality tools and infrastructure to the business; 

Establish a team culture to enable engineers to be successful, engaged and open to collaboration with other engineering and security teams;

Inspire engineering best practices for developing high-quality, maintainable, and safe systems;

Define roadmaps, metrics, and budgets to shape the success of the organization

Engage and contribute to architecture discussions to empower sound technical decision-making;

Inspire ambitious but achievable goal setting;

Relentlessly enforce the quality and integrated testing standards and other Woven policies, leading by example and mentoring the team members to operate accordingly

Engage and participate in strategic activities toward global vision execution by maintaining strong relationships with other organizations within Woven by Toyota

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Excellent English communication and people engagement skills;

5+ years as senior manager in more than one IT domain (networking, systems engineering, software engineering, DevOps, corporate SaaS tools, MDM)

Bachelor degree or higher in information technology, computer science, and/or related field

An empathic leader capable of understanding human beings and identify their strengths and their weaknesses;

A leader capable of enabling a security-first culture;

Excellent technical abilities, capable of quickly understanding complex technical situations that usually involve people, processes and products;

Experience working in multicultural teams and openness to various cultures;

Excellent knowledge of project & product management practices;

Mindset for ownership, growth, and a bias for progress;

Deep commitment to quality.

Hands-on experience deploying office and/or datacenter infrastructure

Experience creating and managing infrastructure and tool budgets

NICE TO HAVES

Linux, Networking, or Cloud certifications (AWS, Palo Alto, Juniper, GCP, Cisco, etc.)

Experience with Microsoft Identity services, Slack, GWS, JAMF, Intune, and/or Puppet

Experience managing AI tools for corporate productivity

Experience in hybrid cloud environments

Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure environments