Who?

• You have 3+ years of people management experience leading distributed teams of 5 or more. You are first and foremost a people person who has the ability to attract and motivate top talent. You are curious, collaborative, humble and have empathy as a key trait.

• You are a strategic thinker and thrive operating in broad scope, from conception through continuous operation of 24x7 services. As a pragmatist, you are able to distill complex and ambiguous situations into actionable plans for your team. You are someone who has solved complex problems and has the aptitude to navigate uncharted waters.

• You are a master of agile processes, continuous integration and test automation. Ideally, you have completed formal Agile training and have managed a Scrum team.

• You have been a developer yourself with a minimum five years hands on experience developing or testing software. Experience managing engineers in a high technical and complex operations environment is highly desired. Ideally, you have experience in a production Cloud DevOps environment.

• You have a strong customer focus but also an ability to balance delivering features with building systems that are sustainable and have a strong foundation.

• You are a good communicator, both written and verbally. You are transparent in communicating risks and setbacks as they occur to other stakeholders.

What?

• Lead and grow a team of passionate engineers through their journey to Agile Maturity. Provide support and guidance that enables the team to self organize and to achieve sustained high velocity and predictability.

• Manage employee career development by providing coaching and mentoring to junior engineers while guiding senior contributors to maximize their potential. Provide continuous performance feedback, collaborate with employees on their objectives and provide a clear path for progression through personal development plans.

• Institute development best practices to ensure the team produces high quality, well architected and supportable code. Lead reviews of architecture design.

• Own, operate and maintain your team’s services. Employ Agile methodologies to continuously deliver value to customers. Institute and maintain a rotating on call incident escalation and response processes for the team.

• Collaborate on roadmaps with Product Managers, Architects and Tech Leads to ensure the team has clear direction and priorities. Ensure there is cross training and a healthy balance between features and technical debt.

• Serve as the team’s Scrum Master, breaking down roadblocks as well as managing communications with stakeholders and dependent teams. Create a culture of continuous improvement through retrospection. Mentor other team members that want to take on the scrum master role.

• As a member of the Engineering Management team, foster leadership principles and behaviors throughout the organization to groom the next generation of leaders.

• Act as an ambassador for AIMS, recruiting and motivating top talent.

Why?

• AIMS is revolutionizing the way systems are monitored, applying Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to the domain of Computer Systems Monitoring. The product is based on several years of research at the University of Oslo as well as internal R&D.

• This is a unique opportunity to get involved in a rapidly growing, well-funded startup that has a product that is set to revolutionize DevOps

Where:

• AIMS is a hybrid-remote company: you can work out of our Oslo office or remotely. A Norwegian work Visa will be sponsored if you want to relocate to Norway. AIMS has employees across the world and uses English exclusively as the company's working language.

Compensation: 

• Competitive compensation with attractive stock option scheme

About AIMS:

AIMS is a Norwegian technology start-up with global ambitions. Our core software, AIMS AIOps, enhances IT Operations teams decision making by contextualizing large volumes of varied and volatile data. The complexity of IT systems has been exponentially increasing for the past several years. This has led to IT Operations teams that lack modernized skill sets, processes, and tooling to struggle with achieving complete visibility into the digital services they provide to customers. AIMS has invested 10 M$ in the AIOps platform and is on a mission to automate IT Operations by providing a state-of-the-art platform for Artificial Intelligence in IT Operations.