Senior Manager - Configuration Management Team

- Support to project teams in configuring and base-lining project items.

- Prepare configuration documentations and maintain Configuration Management (CM) database.

- Review and recommend improvements to existing CM processes.

- Maintain data quality, integrity and security of CM database.

- Schedule audits on CM database and assist in implementing audit recommendations.

- Develop security guidelines to avoid unauthorized damage or usage of project items

- Work with configuration teams in development and enhancement of CM tools.

- Assist in management, maintenance and automating of CM tools.

- Maintain proper version controls of software deliverables.

- Oversee the delivery of software applications in test and deployment environments.

- Analyze configuration issues and propose appropriate resolutions.

- As a Senior Manager of the Configuration Management team, you will be responsible for overseeing the daily build and release activities for multiple product organizations, as well as managing the infrastructure and DevOps projects required to support the Cadence engineering community. We- re looking for someone with a proven track record of building and maintaining a high-quality team, with the ability to create efficient, innovative software solutions, and who is heavily focused on streamlining and automating processes.

Responsibilities include - 

- Lead and develop the Noida configuration management team chartered with the daily build and release activities supporting multiple engineering organizations across both CPG and DSG

- Hire, grow and retain a world-class team of engineers responsible for building infrastructure, development tools and automation processes

- Provide mentorship and technical direction to team-members, standardizing on practices and methodologies

- Implement and deploy web based self-service applications for managing release activities and engineering processes

- Develop, optimize and automate solutions for continuous integration and delivery

- Participate in research, evaluation and testing of new development technologies

- Work closely with US counterparts to ensure high availability of service across geographies

- Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management stakeholders to prioritize, scope, and plan activities

- Assist with capacity planning and forecasting for Infrastructure needs

- Perform advanced troubleshooting and monitoring of the systems to ensure SLAs are met.

Qualifications:

- 15+ years of experience in managing diverse teams, driving organizational change and meeting commitments

- Strong leadership skills, ability to motivate people, instill accountability, perform under the pressure and optimize the team's resources to attain the business goals

- Excellent knowledge of software engineering discipline and in depth knowledge of configuration management principles

- Technical experience with continuous integration & delivery tools and technologies

- Experience with source code management systems (preferably Perforce)

- Experience with one of more scripting languages (e.g, Perl, Python, bash, etc)

- Knowledge of web-based application development (Javascript, jQuery, MySQL, HTML, JSON, XML, etc)

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Mandatory:

Rnd (Research and Development) background or currently into Rnd.