Senior DevOps & DBA Engineering Manager

Kavaliro; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kavaliro is seeking a Manager for DevOps and DBA Engineering to lead a high‑performing team supporting an enterprise SaaS platform. You will own CI/CD pipelines, manage SQL Server databases, and drive reliability, automation, and security across production and non‑production environments.

Lead the DevOps engineers and DBAs, partner with Security and Architecture, and own FinOps practices in Azure while delivering scalable, compliant solutions for customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 8+ years in DevOps/SRE or infrastructure engineering for PaaS/SaaS.
• 2+ years in people management leading DevOps SRE or DBA teams.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure (IaaS/PaaS) and Azure SQL.
• Proven CI/CD design across multi-environment SaaS deployments.
• Strong SQL Server administration and HA/DR expertise.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, and observability tools.
• Experience with SOC 2/ISO 27001 or similar compliance.
• FinOps experience and Azure cost optimization at scale.
• Scripting: PowerShell, Python, Bash.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing DevOps and DBA team, including hiring and career growth.
• Define and execute DevOps/DBA roadmap aligned to product strategy.
• Own CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) for SaaS products.
• Own SQL Server operations across production and non-production environments.
• Performance tuning, backup/recovery, capacity planning, and HA/DR.
• Participate in incident response, on-call rotation, and post-incident reviews.
• Embed DevSecOps practices with secrets management and vulnerability scanning.
• Manage cloud spend and FinOps in Azure; report cost trends to leadership.
• Maintain operational docs, change-management, and audit-ready evidence.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Engineering, Product, and Client Services teams on releases and capacity.
• Improve automation, observability, and self-service to reduce toil.

Skills

DevOps leadership

SRE

CI/CD pipelines

Azure

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

SQL Server

DBA management

FinOps

Security & SOC2

Automation scripting

Kubernetes

Dynatrace

Datadog

PowerShell

Python

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AKS

Azure SQL

Terraform

Docker

ServiceNow

Jira

Job description

Kavaliro is seeking a Manager for DevOps and DBA Engineering to lead a high‑performing team supporting an enterprise SaaS platform. You will own CI/CD pipelines, manage SQL Server databases, and drive reliability, automation, and security across production and non‑production environments.

Lead the DevOps engineers and DBAs, partner with Security and Architecture, and own FinOps practices in Azure while delivering scalable, compliant solutions for customers.