DevOps Manager

As the DevOps Manager, you will lead the operational strategy for our hybrid infrastructure and developer ecosystem. Your primary focus is the governance and administration of our core platforms—including GitHub, Jira, and Development Tools—alongside high-level oversight of our Bare Metal fleet. You will be the primary stakeholder for our AWS cloud budget, ensuring financial efficiency through active management and optimization. This role reports to the VP of Developer Experience.

• →Global Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a distributed team of six DevOps engineers in Sunnyvale, California, and Dublin, Ireland. Foster a collaborative culture that overcomes time-zone challenges and ensures 24/7 infrastructure reliability.
• →AWS Financial Management: You will actively use AWS Cost Explorer and other billing tools to identify savings, manage Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, and provide regular financial reporting to leadership.
• →Platform Administration: Be responsible for the company’s GitHub organization and Jira instance. You will manage user lifecycle, access permissions, and repository/project governance.
• →Tooling Management: Lead the rollout and management of productivity tools (e.g., GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory). You will manage seat licensing, monitor usage trends, and ensure these tools align with company security and budget policies.
• →Infrastructure Coordination: Oversee the health and lifecycle of Bare Metal servers and AWS resources. You will coordinate with the engineering team on hardware refreshes and resource scaling.
• →Automation & CI/CD Oversight: Ensure the team maintains consistent standards using Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions. You will provide technical direction and process oversight to ensure pipelines remain efficient and reliable.
• →Operational Excellence: Demonstrated experience overseeing the architecture and administration of production-grade Kubernetes clusters, with a focus on optimizing container orchestration, auto-scaling, and high availability.
• →Security Governance: Monitor the integration of Coverity (SAST) and Black Duck (SCA) within our deployment workflows, ensuring security compliance is met without disrupting developer velocity.

• Experience: 8-12 years of experience in DevOps, with at least 3-5 years of that in people management.
• Cloud Finance: Proven experience managing AWS budgets, including cost optimization, right-sizing, and utilization of Savings Plans/Reserved Instances.
• Administration: Solid experience administering GitHub Enterprise and Jira at an organizational or departmental level.
• Infrastructure Awareness: Working knowledge of Bare Metal server management (provisioning, hardware specs) and core AWS infrastructure services.
• Tooling Oversight: High-level understanding of Ansible and CI/CD platforms (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) to guide team strategy and troubleshoot workflow blockers.
• Security Tooling: Experience overseeing the implementation of Black Duck and Coverity in a professional software environment.
• Analytical Mindset: Comfortable working with data to justify infrastructure spend and tool ROI.
• Vendor & License Management: Capable of managing relationships and contract seats for AI and SaaS providers.

• Departmental team building and outings
• Employee Referral Program
• Culture/Employee Satisfaction Surveys - Feedback matters!