Head of Technical Operations

Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) is where the world goes to shop, sell, and give. Whether you are buying new or used, plain or luxurious, commonplace or rare, trendy or one-of-a-kind – if it exists in the world, it probably is for sale on eBay. Our mission is to be the world’s favorite destination for discovering great value and unique selection.

As the Head of Technical Operations for eBay Advertising, you’ll be managing the group responsible for building and operating our state-of-the-art software systems production environment. We have 1000+ servers in multiple data centers across the country.

* Plan, direct and coach managers and individual contributors on developing and maintaining the Tech Ops infrastructure * Recruit strong team members from industry experts * Own end to end site availability and performance * Manage the budget for technical operations and deliver goals within budget * Understand the many high performance software components comprising eBay Advertising’s platform along with their interdependencies * Collaborate with product development, product management, business, and QA leaders on architecture, requirements and the implementation of product features related to reliability, quality, and data collection * Lead various teams on tool building and infrastructure necessary to maintain quality metrics, dashboards, and alerting systems. Automate everywhere * Support technical design reviews and provide strong architectural input to feature design * Work in an Agile development environment * Work with product development and other management to create project roadmaps and team strategy * Be a team player ready for fast-paced growth and tremendous business expansion

* Knowledgeable in technical operations or DevOps best practices for consumer Internet infrastructure and 10+ years of experience in the field, preferably using open source and Linux based environment * 5+ years in successfully managing a technical operations team size of 10+, including leading managing / mentoring other line managers * Knowledge of current industry best practices around DevOps, instrumentation, fault tolerance, and monitoring * Strong team spirit and track record of successful cross-functional collaboration with product management and development teams on large projects * Excellent verbal and written communications skills * Excellent people and project management skills * Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in computer engineering