Manager, DevOps

O.C. Tanner; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

O.C. Tanner in Salt Lake City is seeking an experienced DevOps Manager to lead the DevOps team, guiding tooling, automation, and cloud services across multiple products. You will prioritize work, drive reliability and efficiency, and partner with engineering to implement scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes metrics, on-call readiness, and people development, with a focus on recruiting and mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and building roadmaps that align with business goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant technical experience.
• 3+ years recruiting, managing, and mentoring technical teams.
• BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience prioritizing product, engineering, support, and ad-hoc requests.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, and IaC.
• Experience with Go, NodeJS, Linux Shell, or Python.
• Experience with CI/CD in microservices architecture.
• Experience with Git, Terraform, and Github Actions.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies (Kanban, Scrum, Lean).

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and implement technical requirements with engineers and other managers.
• Report on development, quality, operations, and system performance to leadership.
• Drive monitoring, process, security, and service improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, and maintain apps and services on schedule and within budget.
• Lead, hire, retain, mentor, and develop talent on the team.
• Assess, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Manage operational excellence and KPIs.
• Build technology roadmaps to meet business needs.
• Create, maintain, and prioritize engineering tasks.
• This role requires some on-call support outside business hours.

Skills

Leadership

Recruiting

Mentoring

Agile methodologies

Operational excellence

Prioritization

Education

BS in Computer Science or related certifications or equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Git

Terraform

Github Actions

Job description

The DevOps Manager leads the DevOps team, overseeing developer tooling/support and maintaining multiple cloud products, databases and services. This role involves handling and prioritizing engineering efforts and ad-hoc operational tasks, while continuously improving quality and productivity through automation.

A successful candidate will be an experienced manager ready to take on new challenges, with a strong focus on metrics and operational excellence, excellent recruiting and people-development skills, and the ability to lead multi-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers and other engineering managers to architect, develop, and implement technical requirements.
• Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to senior management.
• Drive monitoring, process, security, and service improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, design, develop, deploy, and maintain applications and services within budget and on schedule.
• Lead, hire, retain, mentor, and develop talent on the team.
• Assess, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Manage and execute operational excellence and KPIs.
• Build technology roadmaps to meet ongoing business needs.
• Create, maintain, and prioritize engineering tasks.
• This position will require some support outside of business hours and on-call rotation.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant technical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in recruiting, managing, and mentoring small to medium technical operations or software engineering teams.
• BS in Computer Science or a related certifications or equivalent experience.
• Experience prioritizing product, engineering, support, and ad-hoc requests.
• Experience supporting and monitoring a highly distributed environment.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with at least two of the following programming languages: Go, NodeJS, Linux Shell, Python.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud-based infrastructure and AWS services.
• Experience with software development, engineering, deployment, and CI/CD in a micro architecture environment.
• Experience with tools such as Git, Terraform, and Github Actions
• Knowledge and use of Agile methodologies, i.e., Kanban, Scrum, Lean.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading and working with offshore teams.
• Experience prioritizing competing demands, scoping large efforts, and negotiating timelines.
• Experience influencing engineering best practices.
• Hands-on experience architecting, designing, and developing application code.
• Experience leading production support research/efforts.