Lead App Administrator - DevOps & Automation (Hybrid)

State of Tennessee; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

State of Tennessee is seeking an Application Administrator Lead in Nashville, TN. The role ensures reliability and performance of critical enterprise applications and infrastructure.

You will supervise cross-functional teams, drive automation, and enforce operational excellence to meet SLOs. The candidate will lead CI/CD pipelines, incident response, and reliability initiatives across IT and business units, with emphasis on IaC, security, and cost-aware planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and five years of relevant experience in system administration, infrastructure, or application support.
• Associate degree with equivalent experience may be substituted; graduate coursework may replace up to two years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, automation, and operation of scalable infrastructure and application deployments.
• Resolve complex incidents involving compute, networks, and application layers, with root cause analysis and follow-up.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and metrics to maintain high service availability and reduce MTTR.
• Coordinate and automate application releases, environment migrations, and patching using CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor team members in engineering, DevOps practices, and tooling.
• Enforce system reliability, security, and compliance using IaC and configuration management.
• Maintain and improve runbooks, postmortems, and knowledge bases for operational continuity.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams for third-party integrations, support, and lifecycle management.
• Contribute to strategic planning with reliability-focused cost-benefit analysis and technology roadmaps.

Skills

Observability

Communication

Security Awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate degree with equivalent experience

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Ansible

Puppet

Jenkins

GitLab

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

State of Tennessee is seeking an Application Administrator Lead in Nashville, TN. The role ensures reliability and performance of critical enterprise applications and infrastructure.

You will supervise cross-functional teams, drive automation, and enforce operational excellence to meet SLOs. The candidate will lead CI/CD pipelines, incident response, and reliability initiatives across IT and business units, with emphasis on IaC, security, and cost-aware planning.