At Freddie Mac, the business problem is to ensure the stability, availability, and reliability of thousands of servers supporting a wide range of applications in a hybrid cloud environment, and to transform environments through automation and adoption of new technologies.
Requirements
- 10+ years of expert-level experience in engineering and team management.
- Strong communication skills: able to set clear goals and provide status updates to management.
- Proven ability to lead teams through current and emerging technical trends, anticipating future growth and technology needs.
- Experience assessing team performance and driving delivery.
- Minimum 3 years managing a team focused on Unix, both on-premises and in AWS.
- Extensive hands-on experience in Unix administration and infrastructure automation.
- Experience working in highly regulated environments (preferably within the financial industry)
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead a team of engineers to proactively ensure platform stability and security.
- Identify, influence, and implement technology, process, and skill enhancements to modernize infrastructure and upskill the engineering team.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to ensure clear communication, risk reduction, and accountability for team performance.
- Experience automating routine processes.
- Extensive hands-on experience in Unix administration and infrastructure automation.
- Experience working in highly regulated environments (preferably within the financial industry).
- Additional cloud experience is a plus.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Strong, concise communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders.
- Ability to think beyond individual scope and consider broader organizational impact.
- Ability to coach, mentor, and motivate engineering teams toward continuous improvement.
- Commitment to our acceptable use policy, applying a vigilance-first approach to work, supporting regulatory mandates, and using best practices to protect Freddie Mac from potential threats and risk.
