Director of DevOps & Platform Reliability

Kforce Inc; Mesa (AZ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock/RSUs

Equity

Hybrid work schedule

Medical/Dental/Vision

Job summary

Kforce has a client seeking a Director of DevOps in Mesa, AZ. This hybrid role (3 days onsite, 2 days remote) leads DevOps, Release Engineering, and SRE across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and on-prem environments.

It is a hands-on leadership position for architecting solutions, mentoring engineers, and driving automation and reliability at scale. Ideal candidate will oversee CI/CD, platform engineering, and DevSecOps partnerships while delivering scalable software delivery and improved operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of DevOps, SRE, Release Engineering, or related experience.
• At least 2-4+ years of leadership experience managing engineering teams.
• Deep experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Experience with monitoring platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, New Relic, ELK, Azure Monitor, or CloudWatch.
• Strong experience with both AWS and Azure cloud services is required.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and cloud-native platforms.
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Proven success improving reliability, incident response, and software delivery performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead DevOps, CI/CD, Release Engineering, and SRE strategy across cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
• Manage and mentor a team of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers.
• Drive deployment automation, observability, platform engineering, and reliability initiatives.
• Own CI/CD platforms, release management processes, and deployment pipelines.
• Establish SLOs, monitoring strategies, incident response processes, and operational best practices.
• Partner with Security teams to implement DevSecOps practices and support compliance initiatives.
• Develop roadmap initiatives focused on scalability, security, automation, and developer productivity.

Skills

Python

Go

PowerShell

Bash

JavaScript

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

New Relic

ELK

Azure Monitor

CloudWatch

Job description

Kforce has a client seeking a Director of DevOps in Mesa, AZ. This hybrid role (3 days onsite, 2 days remote) leads DevOps, Release Engineering, and SRE across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and on-prem environments.

It is a hands-on leadership position for architecting solutions, mentoring engineers, and driving automation and reliability at scale. Ideal candidate will oversee CI/CD, platform engineering, and DevSecOps partnerships while delivering scalable software delivery and improved operational