Remote Azure DevOps Manager – SRE & Platform

Sphera; Poland; Remote; PLN 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Sphera in Poland is seeking a hands-on DevOps Manager to lead a growing cloud operations team, aligning product, customer care and professional services to deliver secure, scalable environments and drive continuous improvement.

You will mentor engineers, own backlogs in Azure DevOps, manage change control, ensure DR readiness, and collaborate across functions to optimize costs and reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infra with 2+ years in people leadership.
• Deep practical experience with Microsoft Azure: VMs, App Service, VNets, NSGs, Key Vault.
• Strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps Boards and Pipelines, and CI/CD for .NET and SQL Server applications.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or Bicep) and scripting (PowerShell, Bash or Python).
• Track record running production systems under change control.
• Ability to manage a distributed team across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow your team by setting clear expectations and giving actionable feedback.
• Own your team’s backlog in Azure DevOps with epics, features, and owners.
• Drive DevOps projects through milestones, schedules, and SLAs.
• Review and approve customer environment and integration setups.
• Make sure every production change goes through change management with approvals and rollback plan.
• Own operational readiness: monitoring, alerting, backups, DR validation.
• Lead incident response and post-incident fixes.
• Apply information security rules day-to-day.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Care and InfoSec on roadmaps.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Azure expertise

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Communication

Tools

Azure

Terraform/Bicep

PowerShell

Bash/Python

Job description

Sphera in Poland is seeking a hands-on DevOps Manager to lead a growing cloud operations team, aligning product, customer care and professional services to deliver secure, scalable environments and drive continuous improvement.

You will mentor engineers, own backlogs in Azure DevOps, manage change control, ensure DR readiness, and collaborate across functions to optimize costs and reliability.