DevOps Project Manager

• Lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of complex DevOps initiatives, from mobilization and scope definition through implementation, rollout, stabilization, and handoff.


• Create and maintain an integrated delivery plan covering:


• Milestones and timelines


• Testing and approvals


• Communications


• Rollout activities


• Operational readiness


• Identify and manage the critical path, ensuring dependencies and deliverables remain aligned with overall project objectives.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate delivery across one or more DevOps squads and enterprise partner teams, including:


• Infrastructure


• Cloud


• Security


• ServiceNow


• Application teams


• Data teams


• Platform teams


• Quality Engineering


• Production Support


• Work closely with Product Owners, Technical Leads, Architects, Engineers, Quality Engineers, Security teams, and business/technology stakeholders to clarify:


• Business and technical outcomes


• Roles and responsibilities


• Delivery sequencing


• Acceptance criteria


• Dependencies and constraints

Governance & Delivery Management

• Establish appropriate governance structures, meeting cadences, decision-making paths, delivery controls, and escalation mechanisms.


• Manage and maintain:


• Scope


• Schedule


• Resources


• Risks


• Issues


• Assumptions


• Decisions


• Changes


• Ensure ownership, accountability, and target dates remain clearly defined.


• Drive action closure and proactively address delivery gaps, conflicting priorities, resource constraints, access issues, environment blockers, data-quality concerns, and integration dependencies.

Testing, Release & Operational Readiness

• Coordinate test planning, user acceptance testing, production-readiness reviews, implementation activities, and post-implementation validation.


• Manage required evidence, approvals, and sign-offs for releases and implementations.


• Coordinate releases across Development, Stage, and Production environments.


• Ensure operational ownership, support processes, documentation, and handoff activities are completed successfully.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Prepare concise, decision-focused status reports for program and DevOps leadership covering:


• Upcoming milestones


• Delivery forecast


• Risks and issues


• Decisions required


• Recovery actions


• Coordinate stakeholder communications, readiness activities, demonstrations, information sessions, support planning, and adoption activities.


• Translate complex technical delivery details into clear business impacts, risks, and decision points.


• Ensure deliverables, processes, decisions, and operational ownership are properly documented and transitioned to the appropriate teams.


• Apply lessons learned and continuous-improvement practices to:


• Reduce manual effort


• Reduce recurring operational risks

What You Need to Succeed

Project & Delivery Management

• Strong project-management experience delivering complex technology initiatives involving multiple squads, platforms, and enterprise partner teams.


• Demonstrated experience working on initiatives involving:


• DevOps


• CI/CD


• Security controls


• Source-code management


• Ability to build integrated plans, identify the true critical path, manage interdependent deliverables, and hold multiple teams accountable for commitments.

DevOps & Software Delivery Knowledge

• Practical understanding of the software development and delivery lifecycle.


• Understanding of the relationship between:


• Source-code repositories


• Build pipelines


• Security scanning


• Deployment orchestration


• Approvals


• Production support


• Ability to work effectively with both technical specialists and business stakeholders.


• Excellent risk, issue, dependency, and change-management skills.


• Sound judgment regarding when to:


• Resolve issues independently


• Engage stakeholders


• Seek leadership decisions


• Strong ability to proactively identify blockers and drive them to resolution.

Leadership & Communication

• Excellent facilitation, written communication, organization, and follow-through.


• Confidence working with senior leaders, technical specialists, and cross-functional teams.


• Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed environment where delivery depends on teams that may not report directly to the Project Manager.


• Self-directed, pragmatic, and outcome-focused.


• Comfortable bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous or evolving initiatives.

Required Experience

DevOps Tools & Platforms

• Experience with standard DevOps tools, practices, and Enterprise Pipeline environments is strongly preferred.


• Working knowledge of tools and platforms such as:


• Bitbucket / GitHub


• Jenkins


• CDD


• Jira


• Confluence


• ServiceNow


• Checkmarx One


• Kosli


• Grafana


• Tableau


• Infrastructure and deployment technologies

Security & Compliance

• Experience coordinating security-control implementation and related delivery activities.


• Experience with:


• Vulnerability-management workflows


• Security exceptions


• Compliance evidence


• Release gating


• Production-readiness activities


• Security approvals and controls

Data & Application Management

• Experience working with application inventories and application portfolio identifiers.


• Familiarity with:


• Repository metadata


• Database updates


• ETL processes
  
• Data-quality remediation

Release & Environment Management

• Experience supporting releases across Dev, Stage, and Production environments.


• Experience coordinating:


• Technical testing


• Business validation


• Implementation


• Post-implementation verification


• Experience managing dependencies and readiness across multiple technical teams.

Project Management & Agile Tools

• Experience with Jira and/or Planview AgilePlace.


• Project-management certification or formal Agile delivery training is an asset; however, demonstrated delivery experience is more important than certification alone.