DevOps Manager

About Tarento

Tarento is a fast-growing technology consulting company headquartered in Stockholm, with a strong presence in India and clients across the globe. We specialize in digital transformation, product engineering, and enterprise solutions across industries including retail, manufacturing, and healthcare.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Manager to lead our cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering and technology operations. The role combines DevOps leadership, cloud operations, infrastructure reliability, automation, security, service management and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Lead DevOps and platform engineering practices across development, infrastructure and technology teams.
• Own and optimize CI/CD pipelines, source-code platforms and deployment processes using GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management and automation using Terraform, Ansible and scripting.
• Manage and support containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Improve deployment reliability, platform availability, scalability and operational efficiency.

Cloud & Infrastructure Operations

• Manage and optimize cloud environments across AWS, Microsoft Azure and GCP.
• Ensure high availability, performance, capacity, resilience and security of critical platforms and infrastructure.
• Drive cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, lifecycle management and FinOps practices.
• Oversee infrastructure, networking, servers, storage, virtualization and related technology platforms.

Reliability, Monitoring & Incident Management

• Establish strong monitoring, alerting, observability and proactive maintenance practices.
• Lead response to critical incidents, conduct root-cause analysis (RCA) and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Define and track operational KPIs including availability, uptime, MTTR, change success and recurring incidents.
• Develop operational dashboards, runbooks and technology documentation.

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Embed security, access controls, vulnerability management and least-privilege principles into DevOps and infrastructure practices.
• Support ISO 27001, ISMS, audit and compliance requirements.
• Govern technology changes, access reviews, backup/recovery and operational resilience.
• Establish standards and controls for cloud, infrastructure and platform environments.

IT Service & Operational Excellence

• Drive structured Incident, Problem, Change and Request Management in collaboration with technology teams.
• Establish service-level expectations, operational KPIs and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities for automation, AIOps and intelligent monitoring to reduce operational effort and improve MTTR.
• Ensure a strong internal customer and stakeholder experience.

Leadership & Vendor Management

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of DevOps, cloud/infrastructure and technology operations professionals.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams during incidents, technology changes, upgrades and transformation initiatives.
• Manage technology vendors, MSPs and cloud/technology partners, including SLAs, performance and service quality.
• Support technology budgeting, forecasting and cost optimization.

Key Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, Platform Engineering or IT Operations, with significant leadership experience.
• Strong experience with AWS / Azure / GCP, cloud operations and infrastructure management.
• Hands-on understanding of CI/CD, GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Windows infrastructure, networking, monitoring, observability and automation.
• Experience managing production environments, major incidents, RCA, change management and service reliability.
• Good understanding of cybersecurity, IAM, vulnerability management, backup/DR and ISO 27001/IT governance.
• Experience managing teams, vendors, budgets and senior stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• ITIL, cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, security or DevOps certifications would be an advantage.

What Success Looks Like

• Highly reliable and secure cloud and technology platforms
• Improved deployment velocity and change success rate
• Reduced incidents, MTTR and recurring operational issues
• Increased automation and operational efficiency
• Optimized cloud and infrastructure costs
• Strong security, compliance and operational governance
• High-quality service delivery to internal and external stakeholders