Sr. Manager, DevOps

Job Summary

We are seeking a visionary Senior Manager to lead our global DevOps organization and drive transformation across our software delivery lifecycle. This role is pivotal to our mission of accelerating feature delivery while maintaining the highest standards of quality and reliability for our SaaS platform serving thousands of customers worldwide. The successful candidate will lead distributed engineering teams across the US, Ireland, and India while modernizing our development and deployment practices.

 

Success Metrics:

• Deployment Velocity: Increased deployment frequency with reduced lead times
• Quality: Reduced change failure rates and improved automated test coverage
• Developer Productivity: Improved developer satisfaction, reduced new hire time-to-productivity
• Platform Reliability: Improved uptime, MTTR and performance
• Team Growth: Successful scaling of global DevOps organization with low attrition
• Modernization Progress: Achievement of key migration milestones (Kubernetes adoption, database migration, CI/CD transformation)

Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and scale a global DevOps organization spanning multiple time zones
• Develop and execute comprehensive DevOps strategy aligned with engineering velocity goals
• Drive cultural transformation, DevOps practices, automation-first mindset, continuous improvement
• Partner closely with VP of Engineering and Product teams to optimize software delivery pipelines
• Measure and improve deployment frequency, lead time, and change failure rate

Development Velocity, Quality and Experience Focus

• Create friendly, self-service tooling, and local development environment standardization
• Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, and debugging capabilities for development teams
• Drive adoption of modern development practices including GitOps and trunk-based development
• Drive implementation of feature flags, blue-green deployments, and canary releases
• Enable development teams to deploy independently with confidence
• Implement automated rollback and recovery mechanisms for rapid issue resolution

CI/CD Pipeline Excellence

• Transform current CI/CD infrastructure to industry-standard solutions (GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Optimize containerization strategy for improved scalability and deployment flexibility
• Establish automated build, test, and deployment pipelines for diverse technology stack including: Java/Spring Boot applications and legacy monoliths, Node.js/React single-page applications, Python-based AI/ML services, Mobile applications (iOS/Android), Legacy systems requiring specialized deployment approaches

Security & Compliance Integration

• Support DevSecOps practices with security scanning integrated into all pipelines
• Drive secret management and secure credential handling across all environments
• Support vulnerability management and automated patching processes

Qualifications

Leadership Experience

• 15+ years in DevOps, Platform or Software Engineering roles. 5+ years in leadership positions.
• Proven track record building and scaling global teams across multiple time zones
• Experience leading large-scale platform and technology modernization initiatives
• Strong organizational skills. Ability to influence and drive cross-functional cultural change

Technical Expertise

• Deep expertise in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Extensive experience with containerization and orchestration
• Strong background in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Proficiency with multi-cloud environments (AWS primary, Azure secondary)
• Experience with large-scale Java applications, Spring Boot, and legacy system modernization

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Demonstrated success implementing DevOps practices in large-scale environments
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK)
• Background in automated testing frameworks and quality assurance integration
• Knowledge of security scanning tools and DevSecOps practices
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data platform deployments and management

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