Senior DevOps Engineer, AVP

We are looking for a DevOps expert to provide team management & senior technical authority across CI/CD, automation, and cloud infrastructure, bringing deep expertise, independent decision making, and local leadership through hands-on delivery and mentoring within our Platform Engineering / DevOps Enablement function. Our Platform Engineering organization is innovating and transforming our platform by moving away from monolithic software to utilizing next generation cloud-based technology that leverages Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and modern CI/CD tooling. This DevOps role is integral to that strategic modernization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex DevOps design, development, and implementation decisions across CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure platforms.
• Own and evolve end-to-end delivery pipelines, including build, test, security scanning, artifact publishing, deployment, and promotion strategies.
• Define and drive standards and best practices for Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, release orchestration, and environment consistency.
• Provide technical leadership for reliability, scalability, operability, and cost efficiency across cloud and container platforms.
• Act as a power user and local authority for standard tooling such as (or similar to) GitHub, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, and JFrog Artifactory.
• Design and implement secure-by-default approaches, including identity integrations (SSO), user/access management, secrets handling, and security scanning.
• Lead incident troubleshooting and advanced root-cause analysis for escalated issues.
• Manage, mentor and coach engineers through hands-on guidance, design reviews, and operational practices.
• Drive team efficiency, AI adoption, operating model maturity, and cross-team collaboration
• Produce and maintain pragmatic operational documentation such as runbooks and onboarding guides.
• Engage fully in the agile development process and collaborate with global teams on platform initiatives.

Qualifications:

Recommended Education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.

Recommended Experience:

• 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or similar roles.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipeline design and automation.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g. Terraform).
• Strong Azure experience including Azure Portal usage, governance, and cost management.
• Kubernetes/AKS experience including Helm-based deployment models.
• Familiarity with artifact management, build tooling, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience leveraging AI tools as part of routine development activities.
• Occasional AWS exposure beneficial.

Supervisory Responsibility:

☒ Individual Contributor   ☒ Team Lead   ☐ Manager of Managers

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