Director, Platform Automation

4 weeks ago

Houston, United States Rockwell Automation Full time

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us

Job Description

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Rockwell Automation is looking for a Director to lead our Platform Automation and Developer Experience practice. Rockwell is a leading technology company, building a mix of hardware, software, and services solutions supporting high demand manufacturing customers. Our technology stacks are diverse as are our environments where software is constructed. The Director will partner with several Development teams in the long-term architecture, provisioning, monitoring, and enrichment of Development Environments, with the ultimate goal of improving the Developer Experience through Platform Automation.

You will be customer obsessed and form partnerships with multiple development, infrastructure, security, and operational teams. You will have a background in modern software platforms, understand how to productize platform components, and help Development teams to autonomously consume technology and compute platform level components. You will lead the construction of a democratized, self-service, library of reusable platform components – treating each component as a product and automating the product's lifecycle.

This is a hands-on position requiring technical skills and the ability to gain the trust/cooperation of other technical teams.

You will report to the VP, IT Infrastructure and Operations.

Your Responsibilities:

Lead/Build a team dedicated to improving the experience of Rockwell's Developers through the automation of all technology and compute platform components in lower and production environments. Lead a diverse group of peers into a common solution framework. Develop and implement a strategy to enhance the developer experience across the organization. This is to include infrastructure services allowing developers to work from anywhere. Ensure stream/product aligned teams complete work with substantial autonomy. Lead the creation and adoption of a shared service for CI/CD pipeline platform components to refine development workflows and automated provisioning of lower environments and encourage reuse. Partner across Rockwell's Development teams in the creation of a shared, self-service library of platform components. Partner across Rockwell's Development teams in the creation of repeatable CI/CD pipelines or pipeline classes, using common pipeline templates wherever possible. Collaborate with Development, Security, and Infrastructure teams in the creation and operational support of lower environments tailored to improve the experience of Developers while maintaining the security of Rockwell's Intellectual Property. Champion complete build and production support automation and promote a culture of automation at Platform layers. Build observability into build chains, CI/CD pipelines, and automations of all environments. Collaborate with Build/DevOps/SRE Engineers in the creation and operational support of CI/CD pipelines and pipeline templates. Partner across Rockwell Automation in the governance of common Platform components. Productize and maintain a library of versioned Platform components and orchestration scripts developed anywhere at Rockwell. Creation or standardize test cases in CI/CD pipelines for the proper use of Platform Components, Operational Readiness, Architectural Alignment, UX for the IDP, or similar tests. Guide programs to automate development processes, reduce friction, and eliminate bottlenecks at Platform layers. Establish metrics and monitor Platform products to measure developer satisfaction and productivity. Stay informed about the latest trends in developer tools, platforms, and methodologies. Advocate for and implement developer-friendly practices. See all the interconnected parts and chart a path to an end solution.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. Ability to travel up to 15%.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

Bachelor's degree in software engineering, MIS, Computer Science Typically requires 12+ years of relevant leadership experience within IT Experience leading systems or platform development teams. Track record in modern software architectures and the required underlying platforms. Experience leading DevSecOps teams, supporting CI/CD pipeline, working with software delivery organizations to lead both operational excellence and adaptability. Experience with Continuous Delivery practices, Agile/SAFe, across a large organization. Solid skills in the creation of Technical Roadmaps – organizing work for the development team following Scrum/Agile principles. Extraordinary internal customer focus – you should come prepared with stories demonstrating improvement in developer experience. Experience with successful platform components, their architecture, durability, provisioning, monitoring, and lifecycle. Excellent collaboration skills and a partnering mindset. 0 tolerance for "not invented here" thinking. Experience with innovation in platform automation and IDPs – linking network, system, storage, DBs, meshes, and other sub-components of applications into a consumable product across an organization.

What We Offer:

Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision 401k Paid Time off Parental and Caregiver Leave Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life. To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at .

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

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