Senior DevOps Manager

Jobtailor; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a seasoned DevOps/Engineering Lead in New York to manage and scale a high-performing team. You will drive SAFe ceremonies, coordinate with product leads on sprint priorities, and act as the first escalation point for DevOps issues.

The role emphasizes strong AWS, Jenkins, Docker, and scripting skills to automate and optimize CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate across IT and QA to ensure reliable environments, hands-on deployments, and robust deployment scripts, with a

Qualifications

• Experience leading a DevOps or software development team.
• Deep understanding of full CI/CD flow and tooling.
• Hands-on AWS, Jenkins, Git, and Docker experience.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python or Groovy.
• Ability to monitor, debug, and automate routine tasks.

Responsibilities

• Lead a DevOps/engineering team with goal setting and performance evaluation.
• Align sprint priorities with product leads in SAFe processes.
• Serve as first escalation point for DevOps issues.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments (AWS).
• Collaborate with QA on automated testing pipelines and infra.
• Interface with IT to resolve engineering problems and deploys.
• Configure, deploy, and optimize cloud-based services.

Skills

Team leadership

DevOps management

SAFe processes

AWS expertise

CI/CD knowledge

Scripting (Bash/Python/Groovy)

Automation

Independent worker

Collaboration

Detail orientation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Tools

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Nexus

TestRails

SonarQube

Docker

Git

Job description

Responsibilities

• Managing your team: Assuming the responsibilities of a people manager, especially setting goals, evaluating performance, planning training and other skills development.
• Participating in the Scaled Agile (SAFe) processes and ceremonies.
• Coordinating with product leads to drive alignment on sprint priorities.
• Being the first level of escalation point for any DevOps related issues.
• Maintaining Quality Focus & reporting DevOps metrics.
• Listening to and supporting your team members for problem identification, root cause analysis, and decision-making.
• Partnering with the HID global IT cloud team to configure, maintain, deploy and optimize our cloud-based services (AWS).
• Providing DevOps services and support for our cloud SW development teams, e.g. creating and maintaining development environments and deployment scripts.
• Implementing, configuring, managing, and maintaining our Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) suite of systems and software (BitBucket, Jenkins, Nexus, TestRails, SonarQube and others).
• Closely cooperating with the software engineers on the implementation and configuration of the build pipeline and other DevOps activities.
• Closely cooperating with the QA engineers on the implementation, configuration and maintenance of the automated test processes and infrastructure.
• Acting as an interface with our IT organization, especially when solving problems encountered by our Engineering department.

Requirements

• Experience of managing a DevOps or SW development team.
• Knowledge of the full CI/CD flow and setup.
• Hands on experience with AWS.
• Hands on experience in Jenkins, Git, Docker.
• 2+ years hands on experience and strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, Groovy or equivalent Windows and/or Linux system administration.
• Ability to monitor, debug and automate routine tasks.
• Willing to learn, be proactive, and think creatively.
• Ability to complete tasks independently, with minimal supervision.
• Good teamwork skills.
• Attention to details, reliability, dependability.
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred) in relevant field of study.
• Minimum 3 years (MA) or 5 years (BA).