Director of DevOps & Cloud Platform Reliability

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore; Baltimore (MD); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore seeks a Director of DevOps to lead the City’s application delivery and hosting platforms, overseeing on‑premises and Microsoft Azure environments. You will drive reliability, security, and scalability for critical city services while guiding teams and collaborating with software developers, cybersecurity, and agency leadership.

The role requires strategic leadership, budget management, vendor relations, disaster recovery planning, and a focus on automation and

Responsabilidades

• Lead the City's DevOps engineering and platform operations teams, setting priorities and accountability for reliable application delivery.
• Oversee the administration and reliability of application hosting environments across on-premises data centers and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Ensure operational excellence for application platforms, including environments hosted on Microsoft IIS and Azure-based services.
• Set direction for CI/CD, automation, and infrastructure-as-code standards, and hold teams accountable for their adoption and maturity.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year DevOps and hosting platform roadmap aligned with BCIT and City modernization goals.
• Develop and manage the DevOps budget, including tooling, licensing, and cloud consumption and cost optimization.
• Manage vendor, contractor, and licensing relationships, including scope, performance, and renewals.
• Lead workforce planning, hiring, and skills development for the DevOps function.
• Ensure disaster recovery and business continuity plans are in place and regularly tested for hosted applications.
• Evaluate and introduce automation and AI-assisted tooling that improves delivery speed and reliability.
• Own the strategy, lifecycle, and capacity planning for the platforms that host City applications, including: Windows Server environments. web hosting platforms. Azure App Services and cloud-hosted infrastructure. DevOps automation platforms and pipelines.
• Ensure DevOps platforms are secure, resilient, and scalable to support City agency systems.
• Define service-level objectives and operational metrics, including availability, performance, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and time to restore, and report on them to BCIT leadership.
• Own the DevOps toolchain roadmap and standards, including Source control and repository management. Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) platforms. Artifact management. Infrastructure automation.
• Implement automation and platform improvements that accelerate delivery of new software solutions.
• Ensure DevOps infrastructure and deployment pipelines adhere to Information Security standards and best practices.
• Maintain configuration management, security controls, and operational guardrails across hosting platforms.
• Partner with Information Security teams to ensure compliance with security policies and vulnerability management processes.
• Establish and maintain standards for source control, code review, CI/CD pipelines, deployment approvals, and release management across application teams, and monitor adherence to those standards.
• Own the change management process for a

Descripción del empleo

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore seeks a Director of DevOps to lead the City’s application delivery and hosting platforms, overseeing on‑premises and Microsoft Azure environments. You will drive reliability, security, and scalability for critical city services while guiding teams and collaborating with software developers, cybersecurity, and agency leadership.

The role requires strategic leadership, budget management, vendor relations, disaster recovery planning, and a focus on automation and