DevOps Engineering Manager

Role Overview

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers, fostering collaboration, technical excellence, and professional development
• Provide technical thought leadership in collaboration with Architecture and Engineering
• Define DevOps strategy, best practices, and standards for infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and security
• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of infrastructure as code across development and production environments
• Ensure observability, monitoring, and incident response practices maintain system health, availability, and performance SLAs
• Guide development teams in application resiliency, operability, and deployment best practices
• Oversee configuration, scaling, and management of Kubernetes and Kafka clusters, ensuring reliability, security, and performance
• Identify infrastructure risks and points of failure, propose solutions, and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Participate in on-call rotation leadership and escalation management

Requirements

• Education level
• Bachelor’s degree (B.A) preferable
• Years of Experience – 7+ relevant experience in DevOps in a SaaS environment, including team leadership or mentorship
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a team, mentor engineers, and influence cross-functional teams
• Expertise in distributed systems including load balancing, distributed messaging, and distributed databases
• Expertise in software configuration management (SCM) and tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible or similar
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms, primarily AWS, and infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
• Expertise in automated deployment methodologies that support CI/CD/CM using Git, Jenkins or GitHub Actions preferred
• Experience configuring and administering Kubernetes clusters using advanced features including non-standard networking, storage classes/claims, namespacing, and multiple node groups
• Experience configuring and administering Kafka clusters including disaster recovery mechanisms, data loss prevention techniques, and determining topic configuration to right size for demanding and variable loads
• Solid experience with Windows and Linux systems and tools
• Knowledge of IP networking, including TCP, UDP, firewalls, SSL
• Knowledge of software engineering and design principles such as design patterns, architectural patterns, CAP Theorem, event driven architecture, and similar
• Must be security-minded at all levels
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills ability to approach problems in a structured way and find reliable solutions.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Chef
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Firewalls
• Jenkins
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Node.js
• Puppet
• Terraform

Benefits

• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Generous annual leave, with the option to buy additional days
• Healthcare Plan
• Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community
• Cycle-to-work Scheme
• EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Pension scheme with employer contributions
• Life Assurance – 3X base salary
• Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback
• LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development