Hybrid Director of DevOps Engineering: Azure & CI/CD Leader

Coda Search; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

PTO

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Coda Search is seeking a Director of DevOps Engineering to own DevOps and release management for the entire engineering organization. You will set tooling, standards, and release strategy while leading a 6–7 person DevOps team and working directly in pipelines and IaC.

The role focuses on modernization, Azure-based workloads, and delivering measurable improvements, including DORA metrics, within a mature, funded environment near the Atlanta area.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps or release engineering.
• 3+ years directly managing a DevOps or engineering team.
• Hands-on in Microsoft Azure production workloads.
• Designed CI/CD architecture and release processes at scale.
• Experience with containers and modern delivery (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Structured automation and policy-driven environments.

Responsibilities

• Own release management: cadence, versioning, and production change controls.
• Architect CI/CD and standardize tooling across teams.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) in Azure.
• Modernize deployments with Blue/Green, Canary, and per-branch environments.
• Embed DevSecOps: automated security scans and policy checks.
• Run Kubernetes workloads and support containerized deployments.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Security, and QA for readiness and safety.
• Develop the team: hire, coach, and manage 6–7 DevOps engineers.

Job description

Coda Search is seeking a Director of DevOps Engineering to own DevOps and release management for the entire engineering organization. You will set tooling, standards, and release strategy while leading a 6–7 person DevOps team and working directly in pipelines and IaC.

The role focuses on modernization, Azure-based workloads, and delivering measurable improvements, including DORA metrics, within a mature, funded environment near the Atlanta area.