• Manager, IT Observability and Automation

    MathWorks (Natick, MA)


    Manager, IT Observability and Automation

     

    + Job: 35633-MMCC

    + Team:Information Technology

    + Location:US-MA-Natick

    + Salary Range: $140,700 - $239,200

    + Date posted: 2025-06-24

    Job Summary

    As the Manager of the IT Observability and Automation team , you will lead a team of e ngineers help ing MathWorkers gain deeper insight into the health of their systems and implement toil - reducing / self-recovering automation. As part of the IT Platform Engineering p roduct g roup, y ou will collaborate and partner with Business Application t eams, InfoSec, Product IT teams , and Enterprise IT t eams . You will lead innova tive advancements in this space while driving common practices across the enterprise .

     

    The ideal candidate should have previous experience as a software engineer and have a background in developing modern distributed applications.

    Responsibilities

    + Coach, mentor, and lead a team of observability and automation engineers.

    + Develop and maintain observability and automation platform vision, strategy, and roadmap.

    + Manage 3 rd party and open-source software selection, renewals , and overall lifecycle management.

    + Ma nage stakeholder and partner relationships , expectations, and communication .

    + Drive observability and automation best practices across the enterprise.

    Minimum Qualifications

    + A bachelor's degree and 7 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required. 2 years management experience is required.

    + Demonstrated experience in/with software development

    Additional Qualifications

    + Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and alerting(in cloud-native environments, containers/kubernetes, distributed systems, custom applications (such as Java/Spring-Boot applications), and in 3rd party software).

    + Proven track record of growing engineers , investing in their careers , and building a nurturing environment.

    + Ability to balance competing priorities and make trade-offs based on priorities, resource contentions, and other impacting factors.

    + Knowledge of IT Jobs Scheduling , C ron Jobs, an d other automation capabilities.

    + Knowledge of Vulnerability Management and other InfoSec domain area s that intersect with Observability .

    + Knowledge of streaming and messaging capabilities (such as RabbitMQ) .

    + K nowledge of c loud i nfrastructure (especially in AWS).