DevOps Manager — Azure Expert & Platform Leader

Remote Source, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sphera is seeking a DevOps Manager to lead and grow a distributed team that builds, runs, and secures cloud environments behind our software products. You will translate requests into working environments and ensure on-time delivery with strong change control.

You will guide a hands-on, high-impact team across Azure, Azure DevOps, and IaC, partnering with Product, Eng, Professional Services and InfoSec to improve platform reliability and security.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure or platform engineering.
• 2+ years leading engineers as a people manager.
• Deep, practical experience with Microsoft Azure: VMs, App Service, VNets, NSGs, Key Vault, and Azure Service Bus.
• Strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps Boards and Pipelines.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or Bicep) and scripting (PowerShell, Bash or Python).
• Track record of running production systems under change control: CAB processes, incident management, DR and audit evidence.
• Comfort managing a distributed team across time zones, including contractors and vendor partners.
• Clear written and spoken communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of DevOps engineers and leads, including staff from partner vendors, by setting clear expectations, holding regular 1:1s, and giving specific, actionable feedback.
• Own your team’s backlog in Azure DevOps, turning requests into well-scoped epics, features, and backlog items with clear owners and due dates.
• Drive DevOps projects through milestones, schedules, and SLAs, and report status candidly, especially when something is running late.
• Review and approve customer environment and integration setups, ensuring requirements are complete before work begins.
• Make sure every production change goes through change management, with the right approvals, testing and rollback plan.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Azure

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Change management

Incident response

Distributed teams

Clear communication

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Job description

Sphera is seeking a DevOps Manager to lead and grow a distributed team that builds, runs, and secures cloud environments behind our software products. You will translate requests into working environments and ensure on-time delivery with strong change control.

You will guide a hands-on, high-impact team across Azure, Azure DevOps, and IaC, partnering with Product, Eng, Professional Services and InfoSec to improve platform reliability and security.