Lead, Engineering Operations
Under Armour
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Baltimore • Maryland • United States
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Salary
💰 $125,150 - $156,437 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Provide leadership to both an operational team and an engineering team, ensuring clarity of priorities and cohesive execution.
- Drive technical direction and engineering practices that support reliability and long-term architectural alignment.
- Provide leadership across the SRE function by coordinating with internal SRE partners and augmenting SRE capabilities through a partner-supported delivery model.
- Lead operational readiness, governance, and service execution.
- Own the strategic relationship and operational partnership for Under Armour’s primary observability platform.
- Champion service availability, resiliency, and performance.
- Lead incident response and long-term corrective action.
- Oversee execution across engineering and operational commitments.
- Act as the senior operational point of contact for a primary vendor partner.
- Provide coaching and technical guidance across contributors.
- Lead vendor and partner execution.
- Serve as the connector between engineering, product, security, and business.
- Identify opportunities for automation and improved observability. Drive long-term operational and engineering maturity improvements.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years across engineering operations, SRE, platform engineering, or similar fields.
- Demonstrated leadership of engineering and operational teams.
- Strong background in observability, automation, and incident management.
- Serves as the enterprise Datadog product owner and internal champion, setting observability standards, driving adoption, defining the roadmap, and managing the vendor partnership
- Demonstrated experience leading MSP-based delivery teams, including SOW and contract governance, capacity planning, KPI/SLA management, and vendor performance oversight.
Benefits
- Paid "UA Give Back" Volunteer Days: Work alongside your team to support initiatives in your local community
- Under Armour Merchandise Discounts
- Competitive 401(k) plan matching
- Maternity and Parental Leave for eligible and FMLA-eligible teammates
- Health & fitness benefits, discounts and resources- We offer teammates across the country programs to promote physical activity and overall well-being
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
observabilityautomationincident managementcapacity planningKPI managementSLA managementvendor performance oversightengineering operationsplatform engineeringgovernance
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingtechnical guidancecommunicationcollaborationstrategic relationship managementoperational readinessproblem-solvingexecutionprioritization