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**This position supports hybrid or remote work schedule depending on organization needs.**

Jabil is a leading product solutions provider offering end-to-end design, manufacturing, supply chain, and product management services. With operations in over 100 facilities across 30 countries, Jabil delivers innovative, integrated, and customized solutions to clients across diverse industries—including automotive, consumer lifestyle and wearables, defense and aerospace, smart home and building, industrial and energy, enterprise and infrastructure, healthcare, mobility, packaging, and printing.

JOB SUMMARY

Jabil is seeking a Manufacturing Test Development Manager  to lead the development and deployment of large-scale production software systems supporting our Intelligent Infrastructure division. You will be applying unique and innovative approaches to solving problems within a large-scale manufacturing production environment. You and your team will be responsible for contributing to the end-to-end architecture, definition, development and production deployment of production software applications and infrastructure spanning multiple customers and manufacturing regions. You will also be responsible for interfacing with internal engineering, manufacturing and quality teams and our end customers to ensure your software deliverables meet the rigorous standards of Jabil’s world-class manufacturing environments.
 

This is not a traditional QA manager nor manual test role. This position is focused on leading teams that design, build, and deploy production-grade software platforms, automation systems, and test infrastructure across global manufacturing environments, with a strong emphasis on scalable software development and system architecture.

You will lead a team of software engineers and play a key role in technical decision-making, architecture strategy, and cross-functional leadership, partnering with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and customers to deliver scalable, high-impact solutions.

A critical responsibility of this role is leading the technical review process for software developed by the team. The successful candidate must be capable of performing detailed code reviews of Python-based automation frameworks, test infrastructure software, production tooling, and hardware validation applications while providing technical mentorship and enforcing software engineering best practices across the organization.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

• People manager for a team of software developers and product engineers in support of global cloud operations.
• Attract, hire, onboard, lead, coach, mentor and inspire your team to deliver the best in class for our customers and employees
• Establish clear measurable goals and objectives by which to determine individual and team results (i.e. operational metrics, results against project timelines).
• Solicit ongoing self and team feedback from the business unit (BU), customer and team members.
• Perform team member evaluations professionally and on time.
• Drive individuals and the team to continuously improve in key operational metrics and the achievement of the organizational goals.
• Coordinate activities of team and keep them focused in times of crises.
• Ensure recognition and rewards are managed fairly and consistently in area of responsibility.

FUNCTIONAL MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

• Plan and formulate aspects of Customer BU projects such as objective or purpose of project, applications derived from findings, cost, and required technical resources.
• Provide direction on software design, development, and automation strategies to improve, modify, or create new systems and processes.
• Oversee key projects, processes and performance reports, data, and analysis.
• Develop, determine, and implement policies, procedures and programs.
• Analyze technology trends, software tooling, and resource needs to effectively plan projects.
• Oversee definition and collaboration on overall test infrastructure and application architectures with a strong emphasis on scalable software systems.
• Lead creation of high-level software design specifications and system architecture decisions.
• Drive development of production infrastructure and related application code and automation frameworks.

• Own the team's code review culture and technical quality standards. Conduct detailed reviews of Python-based automation frameworks, test infrastructure software, production applications, and hardware validation tooling to ensure maintainability, scalability, reliability, performance, and adherence to engineering best practices.

• Contribute to and improve software build methodology, CI/CD pipelines, procedures, and engineering environments.
• Provide operational and development support for software platforms and test infrastructure deployed at production facilities.
   

JOB QUALIFICATIONS and KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS:

• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices across the complete SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Agile, CI/CD, and SDLC process implementation and application experience.
• Strong expertise in programming/scripting languages: Python (primary), BASH; Java experience a plus.
• Linux development experience with a solid understanding of system fundamentals and internals (Ubuntu, CentOS).
• Experience with containerization and virtualization environments (VMware, Docker).
• Solid understanding of large-scale distributed systems, including multi-tier architectures, application security, monitoring, and storage systems.
• Experience with front-end and back-end Web UI development.
• Experience with common web APIs (REST, XML-RPC).
• Experience with code versioning tools (Git preferred).
• Experience with hardware and API solutions for controlling, managing and stressing L10 devices (servers, network and storage SSDs, NVMe) such as IPMI, Redfish, FIO, Linpack, memtester.
• Experience with virtual machine configuration (DHCP, PXE boot, nginx), VMware preferred.
• Familiarity with enterprise data center networking (L1–L3 concepts such as BGP, DHCP Relay, ECMP); Arista CloudVision is a plus.
   

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• BS degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.  MS preferred.
• 10+ years’ experience in a software development/test capacity with enterprise server, storage, or networking products. 3+ years people management experience.

• Prior experience reviewing and approving code contributions for software engineering teams developing automation frameworks, infrastructure platforms, validation systems, or production applications is strongly preferred.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Prior experience directly managing software development teams
• Experience managing remote, multi-national and geographically dispersed development teams.
• Domestic and/or International travel, up to 25%, may be required.