Onsite DevOps & SRE Lead in Columbus

ImagineX; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ImagineX is seeking a proactive, hands-on engineer/technical project manager to lead DevOps and SRE initiatives in a Columbus, OH-based role. You will drive CI/CD automation, observability, and engineering management to deliver secure, scalable software and data solutions for enterprise clients.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on engineering leadership, strong CI/CD expertise, and the ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience in software, DevOps, or SRE with leadership in technical program management or engineering management
• Experience designing, setting up, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code
• Observability mastery with modern stacks, metrics-driven monitoring, telemetry, logging, and tracing
• Proven ability to lead technical teams and interface with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Self-starter with ability to structure work and drive continuous improvement independently

Responsibilities

• Direct management of DevOps and SRE engineers; drive performance management and resource allocation
• Oversee the architecture and setup of robust CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Architect comprehensive observability, monitoring, and metrics solutions for high availability
• Serve as the primary technical liaison between client leadership, sponsors, and the delivery team
• Identify delivery risks and opportunities for continuous improvement across software, data, and AI

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Engineering leadership

Stakeholder management

Project management

Tools

Prometheus

Datadog

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

ImagineX is seeking a proactive, hands-on engineer/technical project manager to lead DevOps and SRE initiatives in a Columbus, OH-based role. You will drive CI/CD automation, observability, and engineering management to deliver secure, scalable software and data solutions for enterprise clients.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on engineering leadership, strong CI/CD expertise, and the ability to communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.