DevOps Manager

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Company Information

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. As one team of more than 100,000 colleagues, we share the values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement.

Reporting to the Sr Manager, Software Engineering and leading a team of 4 to 5, he/she will be involved in an innovative environment of a product development, which is scalable to many clients and where you will try your creativity.

What You Will Do

Work with Platform Architects and DevOps Engineers to define and communicate a shared platform vision that delivers customer value.
Collaborate with Product Management and R&D to ensure the platform is fit for purpose, secure, and scalable.
Describe the platform context and operational intent; analyze trade-offs across reliability, performance, security, cost, and regulatory requirements.
Define and evolve core platform components and subsystems (cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security).
Establish standards and guardrails for infrastructure as code, releases, configuration, and access management.
Ensure DevOps processes, tooling, and documentation support GxP, Computer System Validation (CSV), audit readiness, and traceability requirements.
Own and mature the configuration management and formal change control processes, including impact assessment, approvals, and controlled releases.
Lead the end-to-end product release process for a validated, commercial software product delivered to TechOps for field installation.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and develop the DevOps team; manage goals and performance reviews.
Own CI/CD strategy; standardize pipelines, implement security gates, and improve DORA metrics.
Define platform standards (Terraform, Helm, Git); build shared tooling and golden paths.
Set SLIs/SLOs for internal platforms and CI/CD systems, lead incident response, postmortems, and preventive improvements for infrastructure and internal environments.
Plan environments and capacity; manage upgrades and promotions.
Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and tracing; deliver actionable alerts.
Own security posture: secrets management, IAM, hardening, vulnerability remediation, and policy-as-code.
Validate disaster recovery: backups, restores, and recovery tests.
Optimize cloud cost and performance; implement autoscaling and lifecycle policies.
Drive automation for build, integration, testing, and deployments.
Ensure DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines comply with GxP, validation, and documentation standards
Maintain traceability across code, configurations, environments, and release artifacts in alignment with configuration management and change control requirements.
Own the product release pipeline, including packaging, validation, documentation, release note generation, and handoff to TechOps for customer installation.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
8–10+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering with strong hands-on programming skills (including 3-5 years of experience managing a team).
Expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Docker, Git, and Linux is a must.
Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and security best practices is a must.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
Ability to work independently and lead cross-functional initiatives.
Relevant certifications (e.g., CEH, SANS) are a plus.

Why Join Us Work on high-impact projects that make a real difference. Join an inclusive, collaborative environment that empowers you to grow and excel. We value diversity and believe our collective expertise drives success. Be part of a team pushing the boundaries of science and technology.