NetApp
Sr. Manager, Performance Engineering
NetApp, San Jose, California, United States, 95199
Job Summary
Sr. Performance Engineering Manager - the qualified candidate will manage a strong team of performance analysis engineering professionals. The team is responsible for providing performance projections, performance guidance for architecture and design decisions, performance characterization, analysis and modeling across all major areas of NetApp storage products which includes the hardware platform and various subsystems within Data ONTAP software.Essential Functions:Manage the performance analysis work for the various concurrent hardware and software projects for product releases. Ensure that the performance team is influencing product designs to deliver competitive product performance, providing schedule and resource needs for performance-oriented projects, and reporting progress on these projects at engineering review forums.Work closely with various engineering development teams as well as product marketing teams to help drive performance agenda, understand performance needs for various teams, establish clear objectives and plans, prioritize and coordinate performance team's deliverables for various development projects.Manage people, capital budget, and lab equipment resources of the Performance Team to ensure maximum productivity.Manage and drive to resolution critical performance issues and escalations in the field. Coordinate with customer support, field teams, and other engineering teams to provide solutions for complex performance issues at customer sites.Manage hiring and staffing of the performance team and shape the organization to scale effectively with future growth.Assist in driving the vision and company-wide performance strategy and leading cross-organizational efforts to meet product competitive and consistent performance goals. Work with others in performance engineering, product management, and partner teams to contribute to performance analysis and improvement roadmap.Job Requirements
Responsibility:This position is responsible for managing many tasks for multiple large groups, a department or departments, or a function within a country or global geographic area.The focus of this role is on creating and influencing strategy and policy.The potential impact of decisions made by this individual have significant operational or financial impact.This individual will apply in-depth knowledge to solve broad issues that are complex in scope and establish medium to long-range plans.Interaction:This individual must work effectively with staff to vice president level employees and employees within and outside of their function and organization.Utilizes people skills and available people manager tools to critically impact the growth of an individual within the company and career.This individual must demonstrate favorable results through providing leadership to the function.Education and Experience
A Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, a Master's degree, or a PhD; or equivalent experience is required.A minimum of 10 years of experience as an individual contributor and a minimum of 5 years as a people manager is required.Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, critical projects is required.A clear understanding of the product development cycle, technical requirements, and project management.Strong understanding of enterprise hardware/software development and testing processes, preferably in computer server or storage systems, and the role of performance at various stages in these processes.Strong understanding of performance benchmarks, analysis, and modeling concepts and methodology.A strong understanding of concepts related to computer architecture, file systems, and storage desirable.A demonstrated ability to manage professional level employees, many with advanced degrees.Ability to plan and track multiple concurrent projects covering a wide spectrum of technical areas.Ability to deal with conflicting agendas, frequent emergencies, and demanding customers.Proven track record of building and maintaining strong teams.
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Sr. Performance Engineering Manager - the qualified candidate will manage a strong team of performance analysis engineering professionals. The team is responsible for providing performance projections, performance guidance for architecture and design decisions, performance characterization, analysis and modeling across all major areas of NetApp storage products which includes the hardware platform and various subsystems within Data ONTAP software.Essential Functions:Manage the performance analysis work for the various concurrent hardware and software projects for product releases. Ensure that the performance team is influencing product designs to deliver competitive product performance, providing schedule and resource needs for performance-oriented projects, and reporting progress on these projects at engineering review forums.Work closely with various engineering development teams as well as product marketing teams to help drive performance agenda, understand performance needs for various teams, establish clear objectives and plans, prioritize and coordinate performance team's deliverables for various development projects.Manage people, capital budget, and lab equipment resources of the Performance Team to ensure maximum productivity.Manage and drive to resolution critical performance issues and escalations in the field. Coordinate with customer support, field teams, and other engineering teams to provide solutions for complex performance issues at customer sites.Manage hiring and staffing of the performance team and shape the organization to scale effectively with future growth.Assist in driving the vision and company-wide performance strategy and leading cross-organizational efforts to meet product competitive and consistent performance goals. Work with others in performance engineering, product management, and partner teams to contribute to performance analysis and improvement roadmap.Job Requirements
Responsibility:This position is responsible for managing many tasks for multiple large groups, a department or departments, or a function within a country or global geographic area.The focus of this role is on creating and influencing strategy and policy.The potential impact of decisions made by this individual have significant operational or financial impact.This individual will apply in-depth knowledge to solve broad issues that are complex in scope and establish medium to long-range plans.Interaction:This individual must work effectively with staff to vice president level employees and employees within and outside of their function and organization.Utilizes people skills and available people manager tools to critically impact the growth of an individual within the company and career.This individual must demonstrate favorable results through providing leadership to the function.Education and Experience
A Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, a Master's degree, or a PhD; or equivalent experience is required.A minimum of 10 years of experience as an individual contributor and a minimum of 5 years as a people manager is required.Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, critical projects is required.A clear understanding of the product development cycle, technical requirements, and project management.Strong understanding of enterprise hardware/software development and testing processes, preferably in computer server or storage systems, and the role of performance at various stages in these processes.Strong understanding of performance benchmarks, analysis, and modeling concepts and methodology.A strong understanding of concepts related to computer architecture, file systems, and storage desirable.A demonstrated ability to manage professional level employees, many with advanced degrees.Ability to plan and track multiple concurrent projects covering a wide spectrum of technical areas.Ability to deal with conflicting agendas, frequent emergencies, and demanding customers.Proven track record of building and maintaining strong teams.
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