The DevOps Manager leads the DevOps team, overseeing developer tooling/support and maintaining multiple cloud products, databases and services. This role involves handling and prioritizing engineering efforts and ad-hoc operational tasks, while continuously improving quality and productivity through automation.
A successful candidate will be an experienced manager ready to take on new challenges, with a strong focus on metrics and operational excellence, excellent recruiting and people-development skills, and the ability to lead multi-functional teams.
Responsibilities- Work closely with engineers and other engineering managers to architect, develop, and implement technical requirements.
- Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to senior management.
- Drive monitoring, process, security, and service improvements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, design, develop, deploy, and maintain applications and services within budget and on schedule.
- Lead, hire, retain, mentor, and develop talent on the team.
- Assess, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities.
- Manage and execute operational excellence and KPIs.
- Build technology roadmaps to meet ongoing business needs.
- Create, maintain, and prioritize engineering tasks.
- This position will require some support outside of business hours and on-call rotation.
Basic Qualifications- 5+ years of relevant technical experience.
- 3+ years of experience in recruiting, managing, and mentoring small to medium technical operations or software engineering teams.
- BS in Computer Science or a related certifications or equivalent experience.
- Experience prioritizing product, engineering, support, and ad-hoc requests.
- Experience supporting and monitoring a highly distributed environment.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with at least two of the following programming languages: Go, NodeJS, Linux Shell, Python.
- 3+ years of experience with cloud-based infrastructure and AWS services.
- Experience with software development, engineering, deployment, and CI/CD in a micro architecture environment.
- Experience with tools such as Git, Terraform, and Github Actions
- Knowledge and use of Agile methodologies, i.e., Kanban, Scrum, Lean.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience leading and working with offshore teams.
- Experience prioritizing competing demands, scoping large efforts, and negotiating timelines.
- Experience influencing engineering best practices.
- Hands-on experience architecting, designing, and developing application code.
- Experience designing fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Experience leading production support research/efforts.
