Job Description

About TMUS Global Solutions
T-Mobile is America's supercharged Un-carrier, challenging conventions and setting new standards in wireless. With the nation's largest and fastest 5G network, T-Mobile delivers advanced connectivity and unmatched value to millions across the U.S. We're unwaveringly obsessed with providing the best possible service experience, driven by a spirit of disruption that fuels competition and innovation in wireless and beyond.

Manager, Software Engineering K8s SRE
The Manager, Software Engineering - K8s SRE leads the build-out, development, and management of a team of developers responsible for creating and maintaining systems, platforms, and tools that support T-Mobiles internal and external business needs. This role is critical in delivering scalable software solutions, building technical strategy, and collaborating closely with product and IT partners. The ideal candidate is a technical leader who can coach a high-performing team responsible for diagnosing and resolving complex issues across Kubernetes networking, storage, and compute layers, driving continuous improvement through data-driven insights and DevOps best practices.
What Youll Do:

• Lead and manage a team of developers by setting direction, providing coaching, and conducting performance reviews.
• Ensure project deliverables meet deadlines, quality, and budget requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement across development practices, tooling, processes, and security/compliance adherence.
• Manage technical relationships with vendors, influence roadmap discussions, and advocate for key platform features.
• Hire and onboard new talent, improve team productivity, and scale the engineering capabilities as needed.
• Drive a culture of automation, resilience, and continuous improvement, contributing to the evolution of T-Mobiles platform engineering and cloud infrastructure strategies.
• Drive Resolution of platform-related customer tickets, issue diagnosis,incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-mortems, implementing automation to prevent recurrence to ensure reliability and seamless user experience.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and IT partners across multiple ongoing projects.
• Support strategic initiatives and ensure long-term platform stability and adaptability.

What Youll Bring:

• Bachelors degree in computer science or in a computer programming related field
• Overall experience for the role as 10-12+ years, managing scrum team of 8-10 people with total experience of managing a team as high as 5 years

Must Have Skills:

• Kubernetes - Open for all tools
• Cloud Computing [AWS, Azure or GCP] - AWS or Azure is mandatory
• API development
• CI/CD
• Should have advanced level knowledge on Kubernetes with expertise in managing large-scale, production Kubernetes clusters
• Should have exposure working in Production environment
• Experience with GitOps, Terraform, and Ansible for cloud provisioning and configuration management
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Splunk, Open Telemetry

Nice To Have:

• Software Engineering, Experience in modern Mobile and Web stack [React, Node, Python etc.]
• Familiarity with CNAPP platforms (e.g., Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Orca, etc.) and CSPM/CWPP principles.
• Experience in Generative AI

Skills Required