Roles and Responsibilities:
Seeking a hands-on, strategic Senior DevOps Engineering Manager to lead our Productivity and Infrastructure teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in DevOps, with extensive experience using tools like GitLab for source code management (SCM) and DevOps automation for CI/CD pipelines, as well as a deep understanding of infrastructure automation, monitoring, and scaling best practices.
This role requires a combination of technical expertise and leadership abilities to oversee a small growing team that drives continuous improvement in our development pipelines, tools, and infrastructure. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and operations teams to build and maintain a robust, high-performance infrastructure that enables the smooth delivery of products.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers to deliver reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure solutions.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the team, ensuring high-performance and a collaborative, agile culture.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and performance feedback to team members.
• Drive team development, including conducting regular performance reviews, setting clear goals, and identifying growth opportunities.
DevOps Strategy & Execution:
• Define and execute the DevOps strategy for improving productivity and infrastructure reliability across the organization.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and management of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and other DevOps tools.
• Manage infrastructure automation and orchestration to ensure a consistent and scalable environment for development, staging, and production.
• Build and optimize workflows that improve developer productivity, including environment provisioning, code integration, and deployment automation.
Infrastructure & Cloud Management:
• Design and manage the infrastructure architecture to ensure high availability, scalability, and security.
• Implement tools for monitoring, alerting, and incident management to proactively address infrastructure issues.
• Ensure the infrastructure is optimized for cloud-native technologies and works efficiently with containerized applications and microservices.
• Stay up to date on emerging infrastructure technologies, evaluating their relevance and potential integration into our workflows.
Collaboration & Cross-functional Work:
• Work closely with product engineering, software development, and operations teams to understand requirements and improve the DevOps process.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure that infrastructure and development processes meet organizational and regulatory standards.
• Coordinate with leadership to align DevOps initiatives with business goals and product roadmaps.
• Promote a culture of automation, continuous delivery, and operational excellence across the engineering organization.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
• Continuously evaluate and improve development and deployment workflows, ensuring that best practices and industry standards are followed.
• Implement new DevOps tools, frameworks, and technologies that improve process efficiency and increase development velocity.
• Promote a culture of learning and experimentation within the team to explore and implement innovative solutions.