Senior DevOps Leader - Build Scalable, Reliable Systems

GCS Recruitment; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive compensation and benefits

Job summary

GCS Recruitment in San Francisco is seeking an experienced DevOps Manager to lead an operations team focused on infrastructure performance, reliability, and continuous improvement. In this leadership role you'll guide and develop engineers, drive operational excellence, and help deliver stable, scalable, well-automated systems.

This is a leadership role that blends people management with technical direction and hands-on problem solving, ideal for someone who enjoys building high-performing teams

Qualifications

• Experience leading operations or SRE teams.
• Strong cloud and automation background.
• Familiar with Kubernetes, Terraform and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of operations engineers.
• Own system reliability and incident response.
• Drive automation and modern DevOps practices.
• Manage projects, timelines, and stakeholder communications.
• Collaborate with product, security, and development teams.

Skills

Operations leadership

Cloud

Automation

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Communication

Team leadership

Reliability engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

GCS Recruitment in San Francisco is seeking an experienced DevOps Manager to lead an operations team focused on infrastructure performance, reliability, and continuous improvement. In this leadership role you'll guide and develop engineers, drive operational excellence, and help deliver stable, scalable, well-automated systems.

This is a leadership role that blends people management with technical direction and hands-on problem solving, ideal for someone who enjoys building high-performing teams