Remote Senior DevOps Leader - Cloud & Edge Platform

Qcells USA Corp.

Irvine (CA)

Remote

USD 191,000 - 238,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Qcells USA Corp. is seeking a Senior Manager, DevOps to lead the DevOps function within Operations and Platform Management, owning strategy, architecture, and operational execution for our critical energy management platform.

The role builds a high-performing DevOps team and establishes scalable, secure, and automated engineering practices across cloud and edge environments with a strong focus on governance and compliance.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or related engineering disciplines.
3+ years of experience directly managing DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering teams.
Demonstrated success building, leading, and developing high-performing technical teams.
Strong technical background in enterprise-scale CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure automation, cloud platforms, and container orchestration.
Expert knowledge of GitOps principles and technologies such as Argo CD, Flux, or similar platforms.
Extensive experience with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
Deep experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration across cloud and distributed environments.
Strong experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud infrastructure architecture.
Expertise with infrastructure as code and configuration management technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, ARM, or Bicep.
Strong understanding of DevSecOps, vulnerability management, security scanning, software supply-chain security, SBOM, and SLSA practices.
Experience implementing compliance automation, policy-as-code, and security controls within regulated environments.
Experience establishing DevOps standards, governance, tooling, and processes across multiple engineering teams.
Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, incident management, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
Working knowledge of scripting and automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar languages.
Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and operational risks effectively to both technical teams and senior leadership.
Travel may be required up to 15%, depending on business needs.

Responsibilities

Own the architecture, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise CI/CD and GitOps capabilities.
Establish GitOps workflows for configuration management across multi-site data center, cloud, and edge deployments with comprehensive audit trails.
Lead the development of secure CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications targeting Azure cloud and edge Kubernetes environments.
Define enterprise standards for source control, branching, build automation, testing, artifact management, deployment, and release management.
Implement deployment strategies including canary releases, blue-green deployments, progressive delivery, and automated rollback.
Improve developer productivity and deployment velocity through standardized tooling, automation, and reusable platform capabilities.
Establish and govern infrastructure as code practices using Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
Ensure infrastructure environments are reproducible, scalable, secure, and consistently managed across cloud and edge deployments.
Partner with Architecture and Engineering teams to design scalable platform capabilities supporting current and future product requirements.
Drive automation of provisioning, configuration management, environment management, and operational processes.
Establish standards for Kubernetes, container orchestration, artifact management, and application deployment across distributed environments.