Senior Manager of DevOpsLocation: Remote (CST Hours) - Houston, TXDuration: Full-TimeSummaryWe are looking for a
Senior Manager of DevOps to lead and manage our DevOps team with a focus on database management, automation, and operational excellence. This hands-on leadership role is crucial for ensuring system reliability, scalability, and performance while continuously improving CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and database operations.
The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in managing databases, cloud environments, and DevOps best practices while leading a team that supports enterprise applications and mission-critical workloads. This role involves close collaboration with software engineers, database administrators, and IT operations teams to streamline deployments, enhance system performance, and ensure security compliance.
ResponsibilitiesLeadership and Team Management- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing DevOps team focused on automation, reliability, and performance.
- Foster a collaborative, results-driven culture with a strong focus on operational excellence.
- Define clear goals and KPIs for DevOps engineers and database administrators.
Database Operations & Management- Oversee database infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and scalability.
- Implement backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies for critical databases.
- Collaborate with application teams to optimize database performance and query efficiency.
- Ensure compliance with security and regulatory standards.
Infrastructure & DevOps Automation- Design and implement scalable and automated infrastructure solutions.
- Manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable, and secure deployments.
- Optimize cloud-based and on-prem infrastructure for performance and cost efficiency.
- Enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices for consistency and repeatability.
Operational Excellence & Incident Management- Oversee daily DevOps operations, ensuring system uptime and reliability.
- Define and implement monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies for proactive issue resolution.
- Establish incident response plans and lead root cause analysis (RCA) for system failures.
- Work closely with engineering teams to ensure system reliability and zero-downtime deployments.
Security & Compliance- Enforce security best practices across infrastructure, applications, and databases.
- Ensure compliance with industry regulations and internal security policies.
- Partner with the security team to conduct regular audits and vulnerability assessments.
Cross-Team Collaboration- Work with software development, IT, and data engineering teams to align DevOps and database strategies with business objectives.
- Serve as a bridge between development and operations to drive efficiency and innovation.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to implement new technologies that enhance DevOps capabilities.
Qualifications- 8+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- 3+ years of experience managing a DevOps team.
- Strong hands-on experience with databases (SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.).
- Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, automation, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, etc.).
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP for cloud-based infrastructure management.
- Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.
- Strong background in monitoring/logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, etc.).
- Understanding of networking, security best practices, and compliance frameworks.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience managing multi-cloud environments.
- Expertise in performance tuning and database optimization.
