DevOps Lead — Secure CI/CD & Release Governance

TKO; Kentucky; On-site; USD 113,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

TKO is seeking a DevOps Lead to own deployment, release management, and security operations across Salesforce and connected business systems. You will establish and optimize frameworks for deployment, CI/CD, and environment management while owning security operations spanning observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability.

You will drive collaboration across software, security, and IT operations, lead tooling and AI-enabled automation, and define governance for secure, scalable

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps/DevSecOps, release engineering, and site reliability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on expertise building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment/release management.
• Experience owning security operations: observability, monitoring and alerting, incident response, and reliability and scaling practices.
• Proficiency with DevOps and release-management tooling (e.g., Salesforce DevOps Center, Copado, Gearset, Git-based workflows).
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (Datadog, Splunk, New Relic).
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate collaboration across software development, security, and IT operations teams.
• Experience applying AI and automation to accelerate deployment, testing, and operational tasks.
• Strong understanding of security and compliance practices, including access control, secrets management, and data governance.
• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the framework and ongoing optimization of deployment, pipeline (CI/CD), environment management, and release management across Salesforce and connected business‑systems landscape.
• Own security operations — observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability and scaling.
• Own security vendor relationships, ensuring adherence to SLAs, monitoring services, and alerting.
• Facilitate communication between software developers, security, and IT operations teams; break down silos across the delivery pipeline.
• Lead tooling and AI capabilities that accelerate deployment, testing, and operational tasks; evaluate and introduce automation.
• Define branching, release, and environment promotion strategies for low-risk deployments.
• Embed security and compliance controls (shift-left) into pipelines; enforce standards with architecture teams.
• Define, track, and improve DevSecOps and quality KPIs (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, etc.).
• Lead security incident response and post-incident reviews with root-cause analysis.
• Govern environments and sandboxes, including data seeding and access controls.
• Align release governance with architecture standards and quality expectations.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

DevSecOps

Observability

Security operations

Automation

Team leadership

Git workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Salesforce DevOps Center

Copado

Gearset

Datadog

New Relic

Splunk

Job description

TKO is seeking a DevOps Lead to own deployment, release management, and security operations across Salesforce and connected business systems. You will establish and optimize frameworks for deployment, CI/CD, and environment management while owning security operations spanning observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability.

You will drive collaboration across software, security, and IT operations, lead tooling and AI-enabled automation, and define governance for secure, scalable