Senior Manager of DevOps

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.