Senior Manager - DevOps

Role Overview We are looking for a Senior Manager DevOps to lead our DevOps function, cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, platform reliability, and operational excellence.

The role will be responsible for defining DevOps strategy, owning organization-wide objectives,

managing team goals and KRAs, and ensuring timely delivery of key initiatives.

Responsibilities The ideal candidate should be a strong technical leader and people manager who can guide teams, drive accountability, improve processes, and work closely with Engineering, Product, Security, IT, and Business Responsibilities :

• Define and execute the DevOps strategy, roadmap, standards, and best practices.
• Own organization-wide DevOps objectives and ensure delivery within agreed timelines.
• Define, track, and review KRAs, KPIs, and goals for the DevOps team.
• Set clear goals for team members and support performance reviews, feedback, and career development.
• Lead, mentor, and manage DevOps engineers and technical leads.
• Drive CI/CD automation, release management, environment management, and deployment governance.
• Manage cloud infrastructure, scalability, availability, monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Implement infrastructure as code and automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Oversee container platforms such as EKS and GKE.
• Drive SRE and reliability practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident management, RCA, SLAs, and SLOs.
• Work with security teams to implement DevSecOps, compliance, access controls, and vulnerability management.
• Plan resources, manage priorities, track delivery milestones, and report progress, risks, and issues to leadership.
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, automation, and continuous Skills and Experience :
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure or platform engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in people management or technical leadership.
• Experience defining team KRAs, KPIs, goals, and delivery metrics.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, networking, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic, or Splunk.
• Strong understanding of incident management, release management, change management, and production support.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, planning, and problem-solving skills

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