Senior DevOps Leader: 24/7 Reliability & Automation

GCS Recruitment; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) and incentive plan

Paid holidays and vacation

Hybrid working (3 days/week onsite)

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Senior DevOps Manager to lead a global Technical Operations team delivering reliable infrastructure and 24/7 operational stability. You will drive scalability, cross-functional collaboration, and best-practice project management to support enterprise customers.

As a member of the engineering leadership, you will champion SRE principles, automate deployments, and mentor engineers across multiple time zones, ensuring high performance and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technical operations with 4+ years leading teams
• Proven track record in SRE and reliability engineering
• Strong project-management and cross-functional collaboration
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS)

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor Technical Operations engineers across multiple time zones
• Build a collaborative team culture centered on knowledge sharing and operational excellence
• Own 24/7 operational stability - incident response, escalation procedures, and post-incident reviews
• Drive incident management including alert management, outage response, and root cause analysis (RCA/CAR)
• Implement and maintain SRE practices: SLOs, error budgets, and reliability engineering
• Establish robust monitoring and alerting using APM tools and dashboards
• Lead technical project delivery with timelines, resources, and stakeholder communication
• Drive automation initiatives - runbook automation, deployments, and infrastructure-as-code
• Manage infrastructure automation using Terraform, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS)
• Provide executive reporting on operational metrics, project status, and team performance
• Drive cost-optimisation and resource-planning initiatives

Skills

Technical Leadership

SRE

Incident Management

Agile/Kanban

JIRA

Executive Communication

On-call Experience

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Monitoring

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Senior DevOps Manager to lead a global Technical Operations team delivering reliable infrastructure and 24/7 operational stability. You will drive scalability, cross-functional collaboration, and best-practice project management to support enterprise customers.

As a member of the engineering leadership, you will champion SRE principles, automate deployments, and mentor engineers across multiple time zones, ensuring high performance and cost efficiency.