Manager For DevOps And DBA Engineer - Assistant Vice President

iCapital; Dubai; On-site; AED 551,000 - 661,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Annual bonus

Healthcare stack

Job summary

iCapital is seeking a Manager for DevOps and DBA Engineering to lead the Annuities Platform team in delivering reliable, scalable SaaS products. You will guide CI/CD pipelines, database operations, and a growing team of DevOps engineers and DBAs.

You will collaborate with Architecture, Security, and Product teams to embed DevSecOps, manage Azure costs, and ensure SOC 2 compliance while driving automation and observability across production and non-production environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years DevOps/SRE or infrastructure engineering experience.
• 2+ years people management leading DevOps SRE or DBA teams.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure including IaaS/PaaS networking Entra ID and Azure SQL.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of DevOps Engineers and Database Administrators.
• Define and execute the DevOps and DBA roadmap aligned to product and platform strategy.
• Own the design, reliability, and CI/CD pipelines for SaaS products.
• Own SQL Server operations across environments, including HA/DR, backups, and performance tuning.
• Partner with Security for DevSecOps and SOC 2 compliance.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Azure

SQL Server

SRE practices

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

SQL Server

Dynatrace/Datadog

Job description

Job Description:

About The Role

iCapital is looking to hire a Manager for DevOps and DBA Engineering Manager to join the Annuities Platform team. This role is responsible for leading the strategy, design, and execution of DevOps practices and database platform operations supporting enterprise SaaS solutions. This role owns CI/CD pipelines and SQL Server database systems to ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and security across production and non-production environments. As a Technical Manager, this position not only leads and develops a team of DevOps Engineers and Database Administrators but is also the technical SME and expected to maintain Databases and manage the deployment pipelines. This individual reports to the Director of Enterprise Technology and partners closely with the Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Product teams, and is accountable for the reliability, automation, and operational excellence of the platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of DevOps Engineers and Database Administrators, including hiring, performance management, mentoring, and career development.
• Define and execute the DevOps and DBA roadmap aligned to product and platform strategy.
• Own the design, reliability, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) supporting automated build, test, release, and rollback for all (Hexure now part of iCapital) SaaS products.
• Own SQL Server database operations across production and non-production environments, including performance tuning, indexing, capacity planning, patching cadence, backup and recovery (RTO/RPO), and always on high-availability and disaster recovery.
• Participate in incident response for infrastructure and database events, including on-call rotation, post-incident reviews, and corrective-action follow-through.
• Partner with the Security team to embed DevSecOps practices, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, dependency hygiene, and compliance with SOC 2 and other applicable frameworks.
• Partner with the Senior Cloud Engineers and Director to manage cloud spend and FinOps practices in Azure; track utilization, right-size workloads, and report cost trends to leadership.
• Establish and maintain operational documentation, change-management discipline, and audit-ready evidence for internal and external reviews.
• Collaborate with the Architecture, Engineering, Product, and Client Services teams to plan releases, capacity, and platform improvements that support business growth.
• Continuously improve automation, observability, and self-service capabilities to reduce toil and accelerate delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science information systems engineering or related field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years DevOps cloud SRE or infrastructure engineering supporting PaaS and SaaS platforms
• 2+ years people management experience leading DevOps SRE or DBA teams including hiring performance and career development
• Experience with Microsoft Azure including IaaS PaaS networking Entra ID and Azure SQL
• Deep experience designing and operating ci cd pipelines azure DevOps GitHub actions or similar across multi environment SaaS deployments
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management at scale
• Strong SQL server administration including performance tuning HA/DR always on replication log shipping backup and security plus other database models
• Working knowledge of docker Kubernetes AKS
• Experience with monitoring logging and alerting using platforms like Dynatrace, Datadog, Azure to monitor application insights
• Experience working within compliance frameworks like soc 2 iso 27001 or similar
• Strong problem-solving communication and stakeholder management skills able to translate technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience supporting SaaS platforms in insurance financial services or other regulated industries
• Relevant certifications Microsoft Azure solutions architect azure DevOps engineer AWS DevOps engineer or equivalent
• Scripting and automation experience PowerShell python bash
• Familiar with DevSecOps practices SAST/DAST dependency scanning secrets management azure key vault HashiCorp vault
• Experience with FinOps and Azure cost optimization at scale
• Exposure to PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB or azure SQL managed instance migrations
• Experience integrating ISTM and change management tools ServiceNow Jira service management into delivery workflows

Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $150,000 to $180,000. iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).

We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.

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