DevOps Director

Company Description

Job Description

Scope of Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the software engineering and product teams to ensure highly reliable platform delivery for government customers
• Lead and mentor a unified team of DevOps and SDETs, guiding them from test planning to deployment, and fostering a collaborative and productive work environment
• Organize and manage automation strategies, infrastructure scaling, and release schedules, ensuring efficient project execution and alignment with business goals
• Establish CI/CD, security, and automated testing best practices and standards for the team, driving excellence in continuous software delivery
• Take charge of developing, maintaining, and scaling cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and testing suites, ensuring they meet rigorous security and quality standards
• Oversee the quality of all technical deliverables, including infrastructure as code (IaC), test automation scripts, and system monitoring, to maintain high standards of platform stability
• Collaborate closely with Air's leadership to translate business requirements into infrastructure and testing specifications, ensuring the successful deployment of software solutions
• Continuously seek innovation and process improvement opportunities, finding efficiencies in environment provisioning and test execution to drive the team's success
• Work collaboratively with forward-deployed engineers, software developers, and data scientists to enhance our platform's overall security, quality, and performance

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in managing cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, or Quality Assurance teams
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on technical experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and automated testing frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, JUnit)
• 5+ years of people management
• Thorough understanding of microservice architectures, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proven experience leading teams using an Agile development framework
• Strong analytical skills and unwavering attention to detail

• Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
• Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, and alerting tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Hands-on experience with performance, load, and security testing methodologies
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and implementing security scanning in deployment pipelines
• Familiarity with Linux administration and shell scripting (Bash, Python)