Full-Time

Senior Manager Services Management

Posted on 2/11/2025

Discover

Discover

10,001+ employees

Compensation Overview

$106k - $178.8kAnnually

+ Incentives

Senior, Expert

No H1B Sponsorship

Wheeling, IL, USA

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineering
DevOps Engineering
Requirements
  • H.S. Diploma or GED
  • 6+ years Computer Science, Engineering or related
  • 2+ years People Management
Responsibilities
  • Responsible for managing a team that leads technology development or support processes.
  • Defines and assess processes in line with appropriate controls, standards, and policies.
  • Defines performance metrics and tracks the performance of processes.
  • Manages escalated technology issues.
  • Provides oversight and direction in the resolution of critical incidents impacting production systems.
  • Coaches, mentors, and manages the performance of a team.
  • Develops and maintains individual development plans for career progression and employee engagement.
  • Addresses performance and behavior issues on the team.
  • Develops service level agreements, and metrics to assess process performance.
  • Handles issues escalations.
  • Ensures processes are adhering to defined controls, procedures, and policies.
  • Ensures the timely resolution of restoring service during outages.
  • Communicates status of major incidents to technology management.
  • Manages and reviews team budgets.
  • Monitors vendor contracts and ensures they are delivering on defined service level agreements.
  • Reports vendor performance to management.
Desired Qualifications
  • Bachelors Information Technology
  • Bachelors Engineering
  • 8+ years Computer Science, Engineering or related
  • 4+ years People Management
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud architecture and modern application development with experience in troubleshooting production issues.
  • Proven ability to lead major incident bridges, drive root cause analysis and coordinate cross functional teams to quickly restore service.
  • Hands on experience with monitoring, observability tools used in high availability production environments.
  • Expertise in 24x7 production support and ability to own uptime & performance SLA’s for large scale distributed systems
  • Ability to assess complex technical issues, identify risks, and implement effective solutions under pressure.
  • Ability to identify issues, drive post incident learnings and lead initiatives that enhance system reliability and streamline operations.
  • Expertise in one or more general purpose programming languages: Python, Go, shell scripting (Unix/Linux), Java
  • Expertise in container technology (OpenShift, Kubernetes), hybrid cloud and AWS.
  • Experience in monitoring tools and log analysis tools to manage operations

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Riverwoods, Illinois

Founded

1985

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • In-car commerce market projected to reach $86 billion by 2025.
  • Click to Pay expansion offers streamlined, secure shopping in multiple countries.
  • Support for Black-owned restaurants boosts brand image and customer loyalty.

What critics are saying

  • Capital One acquisition may cause instability in Discover's corporate strategy.
  • In-car commerce partnership exposes Discover to technological and adoption challenges.
  • Click to Pay expansion increases competition, pressuring Discover to innovate rapidly.

What makes Discover unique

  • Discover's partnership with Car IQ leads in the emerging in-car commerce market.
  • Global expansion of Click to Pay enhances Discover's digital checkout capabilities.
  • $5M initiative for Black-owned restaurants strengthens Discover's community engagement.

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Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan

Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account

Short and Long Term Disability, Life, and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurances

Recognition Program

Education Assistance

Commuter Benefits

Family Support Programs

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Company News

Capital One
Feb 21st, 2024
Capital One to Acquire Discover | Capital One Financial Corp.

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Nov 19th, 2020
PayPal Customers Can Now Fundraise Up To $20K

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Oct 2nd, 2020
The Rise Of eCommerce And Digital Banking Innovations

Car IQ has teamed with Discover to accelerate automotive banking, and Banking-as-a-Service is making it simpler for companies and FinTechs to manage data.

PYMNTS
Oct 1st, 2020
Today In Retail News: Car IQ Teams With Discover On In-Car Banking; Walmart Unveils New Store Design

In today's top retail news, Car IQ teams with Discover on in-car banking and Walmart unveils a new store design.

PYMNTS
Oct 1st, 2020
Car IQ Teams With Discover To Fast-Track Automotive Banking

By 2025, it is estimated that $86 billion will be spent on in-car commerce. That number assumes that human beings would be the ones giving the commands. But what if humans were removed from the in-car Commerce process – just as they have been removed from the autonomous driving process?

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