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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