Job Description

Job Description:

Company Description: 

McDonald’s growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald’s will accelerate technology innovation so 65M+ customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway.  

McDonald’s Global Technology is here to power tomorrow’s feel-good moments.  

That’s why you’ll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time. Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we’re digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we’re reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald’s restaurant. We face complex tech challenges every day. But that’s where our diverse and talented teams come in. They’re made up of the best and brightest from all over the globe, and they thrive in the space where feel-good meets fast-paced.  

Check out the McDonald’s Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology and our global team are directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy.  

Role Overview

The Commercial Product & Platform vision develops global technology products and platforms that delight our customers and enable our crew to operate our restaurants reliably and effectively.

 

The Senior DevOps Engineering Manager reports to Director of Engineering, DevOps COE, where our mission is to help our product engineering teams deliver faster with improved quality and reliability. This role will lead a team of internal and vendor engineers to design, implement, and manage the infrastructure and processes for software development and deployment, with a focus on automation, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability of systems. This role involves strategic planning, team leadership, and cross-functional collaboration with development, testing, deployment and operations across our global, segment and market teams.

 

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the DevOps team, ensuring they have the resources they need and are meeting performance targets. Handle team management, performance reviews, and professional development
  • Consult with other DevOps architects and product teams in selection of appropriate automation tools, to define and implement best practices and emerging concepts in DevOps, infrastructure automation, and platform architecture
  • Act as a bridge between market/segment stakeholders and the development team, ensuring that technical solutions align with business needs
  • Educate and advise development teams, comprising resources from the test automation, point of sale, digital applications, and backend systems, on how CI/CD standards, tooling and environments can help achieve their objectives; assist in bringing teams together to resolve repetitive issues in the CI/CD pipeline and development environments.
  • Help build a knowledge hub for best practices and recommendations of DevSecOps practices

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Technology or related field
  • 5+ years professional experience in DevOps engineering with at least 3+ years as a people manager or similar positions
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to optimally communicate sophisticated concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to solicit and communicate business expectations and build strong client and stakeholder relationships
  • Strong, applied, knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS) and cluster management tools like Kubernetes (AWS EKS)
  • Strong Experience with continuous integration and related tools such as Jenkins Pipelines, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, SonarQube, Artifactory etc.
  • Strong leadership skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills are self-driven and deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced environment
  • Familiarity with modern software development practices including TDD and other testing practices, CI/CD, and containerized deployment using a cloud provider
  • Experience partnering with collaborators in a large-scale, sophisticated, global organization
  • Proficient in Project Management /Tracking with tools like JIRA, MS Project

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: YES

Long-Term Incentive: YES

Benefits Eligible: YES

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $149,260.00 - $190,310.00 per year.
 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

Additional Information: 

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, adoption assistance program, educational assistance program, flexible ways of working, and time off policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and vacation/PTO). Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment.  

Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance. 

Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan. 

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis. 

McDonald’s provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (including pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, disability status, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, protected military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

Nothing in this job posting or description should be construed as an offer or guarantee of employment. 

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