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Senior Manager of DevOps

Baylor Genetics
Full-time
On-site
United States

Summary:

We are seeking a Sr. Manager of DevOps to lead and manage our DevOps team, focusing on database management, automation, and daily operational excellence. This hands-on leadership role is critical in ensuring system reliability, scalability, and performance while driving continuous improvement in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and database operations.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in managing databases, cloud environments, and DevOps best practices while also leading a team that supports enterprise applications and mission-critical workloads. You will work closely with software engineers, database administrators, and IT operations teams to streamline deployments, enhance system performance, and ensure security compliance.

Responsibilities:

  • Leadership and Team Management
    • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing DevOps team focused on automation, reliability, and performance.
    • Foster a collaborative, results-driven culture with a 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.
    • Work with application teams to optimize database performance and query efficiency.
    • Maintain database 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.
  • Ensure infrastructure as code (IaC) best practices are followed for repeatability and consistency.
  • Operational Excellence & Incident Management
  • Oversee day-to-day 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.
  • Collaborate 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 security team to conduct regular audits and vulnerability assessments.
  • Cross-Team Collaboration
    • Partner with software development, IT, and data engineering teams to align DevOps and database strategies with business goals.
    • Act as a bridge between development and operations to drive efficiency and innovation.
    • Work 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 in 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.