Engineering Team Lead - Cloud Stability

Bloomberg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

401(k) with match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm is seeking a Team Lead for the Cloud Stability team in New York. This pivotal role involves defining and driving strategy for running the private cloud, ensuring high availability across engineering workflows. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of team lead experience and possess strong skills in software development best practices, automation, and cross-team collaboration. The position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience as a Team Lead of a software development team.
• Ability to foster a collaborative team environment.
• Architectural fluency across compute, storage, networking, & orchestration technologies.

Responsibilities

• Set a strategy for capacity management in real-time.
• Organize and prioritize the backlog of work with the team.
• Inspire and motivate the team to achieve outstanding results.

Skills

Team Leadership

Software Development Best Practices

Capacity Management

Automation with Ansible

Collaboration and Communication

Agile Scrum

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Openstack

Airflow

Unix

Job description

Overview

The Cloud Stability team is essential, managing Bloomberg’s private cloud, a massive, critical infrastructure hosting over 100k virtual machines that underpin Bloomberg's most vital applications, including the flagship Terminal and News systems. The team's core mission is to efficiently guarantee the high-availability infrastructure that all clients depend on. Key responsibilities include ensuring reliability of cloud services, establishing comprehensive observability across the fleet, managing infrastructure maintenance and failure response, and executing predictive capacity planning. The team drives this through extensive automation built on tools like Ansible, Airflow, and Flask. The private cloud consists of two key offerings: Bloomberg Cloud Compute (BCC), an in-house cloud leveraging open source technologies such as OpenStack and Ceph, and a VMWare-based commercial software cloud.

We are seeking an experienced Team Lead for the Cloud Stability team based out of New York. This leadership role is pivotal: you will define and drive the strategic execution for running the private cloud, ensuring it continuously enables the vast majority of engineering workflows within Bloomberg. Furthermore, you will be trusted to articulate a future-state vision for the Bloomberg cloud\'s operation and forge critical partnerships across internal and external teams to realize that vision.

Responsibilities

• Some of our initiatives include:
• Set a strategy for capacity management that takes into account changes in real time capacity and planned demand
• Develop orchestration to coordinate competing automation
• Enable twice annual reboots of a fleet of ~7k servers
• Expand BCC’s global footprint with new production clusters
• As a Team Lead, we’ll trust you to inspire and motivate the team to achieve outstanding results, while supporting individual growth and development
• Build partnerships with internal teams, and external stakeholders so that problems are well understood and solutions are aligned with expectations
• Organize and prioritize the backlog of work with the team and stakeholders so that the most important and impactful work is addressed first
• Work with the engineers in the team to deliver high quality solutions that adhere to best practices
• Develop a vision of an optimally run cloud and a roadmap for getting there

Qualifications

• You\'ll need to have: At least 4+ years experience as a Team Lead of a software development team
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technology field
• Ability to foster a collaborative team environment; through driving a strong culture of teamwork and taking advantage of team diversity
• Ability to effectively listen, communicate, challenge, and influence team members, peers, and senior managers
• Experience building trust based relationships with stakeholders to pave the way for cross team collaboration and alignment
• A solid foundation in software development, including best practices, code quality, modular design, testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and maintainability
• Ability to reason about system behavior, failure domains, and scaling characteristics, enabling effective guidance on stability, reliability, and performance
• Architectural fluency across compute, storage, networking, & orchestration technologies
• We\'d love to see experience in:
• Openstack
• Cloud infrastructure or SRE team
• Virtual networking, Software Defined Networking
• Workflow orchestrators such as Airflow and AWX/Ansible
• Unix and distributed systems
• Agile Scrum

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary Range = 200000-300000 USD Annually+ Benefits + Bonus
• The referenced salary range is based on the Company\'s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.
• We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

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