As a DevOps Team Manager, you will lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of our DevOps function while remaining closely involved in the technical direction of infrastructure, automation, cloud operations, and deployment processes.
This is a hybrid leadership role that combines technical DevOps leadership, people management, and Agile delivery management. You will provide technical oversight across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, monitoring, and system reliability while ensuring the team consistently delivers high-impact outcomes through effective Agile execution.
This is not a traditional Scrum Master role. We are looking for a leader who brings technical credibility, removes organizational friction, drives continuous improvement, and helps engineers build scalable, secure, and reliable systems.
Responsibilities
DevOps Strategy & Technical Leadership
- Define and execute the team's DevOps strategy aligned with engineering and business goals.
- Provide technical leadership across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and deployment.
- Ensure system reliability, scalability, security, performance, and availability.
- Define and drive the embedding of security practices into the team's strategy, ways of working, and technical decision-making.
- Drive infrastructure automation, DevOps best practices, and continuous improvement.
- Evaluate and implement tools, including AI-assisted solutions, to improve engineering efficiency.
Agile Delivery Leadership
- Own and prioritize the DevOps backlog, balancing business priorities, operational needs, and technical debt.
- Define the team's roadmap and delivery priorities with engineering leadership.
- Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, remove blockers, and manage delivery risks.
- Communicate progress, priorities, and risks to stakeholders.
- Continuously improve Agile processes and team delivery.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing DevOps team.
- Set goals, provide coaching and feedback, and support career development.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning.
Operational Excellence
- Ensure production systems are secure, reliable, and highly available.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve system resilience.
- Monitor operational performance and partner with development teams to improve deployment quality and platform maturity.
Requirements
Experience
- At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 2 years of experience leading technical teams as a Team Lead, Engineering Manager, Technical Manager, or similar leadership role.
- Proven experience implementing Agile practices within engineering teams and leading cross-functional delivery.
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms.
- Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and automation scripting.
- Experience improving engineering processes through automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
Skills
- Strong technical understanding of modern DevOps principles, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native operations.
- Ability to embed security practices within DevOps workflows and the broader engineering team, including secure CI/CD, infrastructure hardening, vulnerability management, and security-minded engineering behaviors.
- Excellent backlog management and prioritization skills.
- Ability to balance operational work, business priorities, technical debt, and long-term platform improvements.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Agile Scrum certification (CSM, PSM, or equivalent) is a plus but not required.
We're Looking for Someone Who
- Leads by influence and technical credibility.
- Takes ownership and drives results.
- Builds scalable systems and high-performing teams.
- Communicates openly, proactively, and transparently.
- Makes sound technical and business decisions.
- Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Is passionate about continuous improvement and operational excellence.
What Success Looks Like
- The DevOps team consistently delivers against engineering priorities and business objectives.
- CI/CD pipelines are reliable, efficient, and continuously improving.
- Infrastructure is secure, scalable, resilient, and well-automated.
- Security practices are embedded across DevOps and Engineering workflows, with teams consistently applying secure delivery, infrastructure, and operational practices as part of day-to-day execution.
- Agile ceremonies drive meaningful collaboration and measurable delivery outcomes.
- Operational issues are identified early, resolved quickly, and prevented from recurring through continuous improvement.
- Team members continue to grow in capability, accountability, and ownership.
- Engineering leadership has confidence in the team's technical direction, execution, and delivery.