Senior DevOps & Platform Engineering Lead

Sphera; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sphera is seeking an experienced DevOps Leader to drive and scale cloud infrastructure across multiple teams in the United States. You will own backlogs in Azure DevOps, guide Milestones and SLAs, and ensure secure, auditable production operations for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.

The role requires strong Azure expertise, people management skills, and a track record of delivering reliable, compliant DevOps solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure.
• 2+ years leading engineers as a people manager.
• Deep Azure experience with virtual machines, App Service, virtual networks.
• Familiar with CI/CD for .NET and SQL Server.

Responsibilities

• Own your team’s backlog in Azure DevOps, turning requests into well-scoped epics, features, and backlog items with clear owners and due dates.
• Drive DevOps projects through milestones, schedules, and SLAs, and report status candidly, especially when something is running late.
• Review and approve customer environment and integration setups, ensuring requirements are complete before work begins.
• Run safe, reliable operations; ensure every production change goes through change management, with the right approvals, testing and rollback plan.
• Own operational readiness for the services your team supports: monitoring, alerting, backups, DR validation and handover to support.
• Lead incident response and follow-up for your area and turn every significant incident into a lasting fix.
• Apply Sphera's information security rules in day-to-day work: least-privilege access, no shared or hard-coded secrets, and evidence for audits.
• Work as one team with your fellow managers; agree shared standards for planning, estimation, reviews, on-call and reporting, so engineers and stakeholders get the same experience whichever team they work with.
• Cover each other's teams during absences and move people between teams when priorities call for it.
• Bring the Director a joint view of capacity, risks and priorities across the teams.
• Keep improving the platform and the way we work: automation and infrastructure as code over manual steps.
• Partner with FinOps on cloud cost: right-sizing, decommissioning and making cost visible to product owners.
• Keep runbooks, handbook articles and the wiki current, so the next engineer can follow the process without being walked through it.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Professional Services, Customer Care and InfoSec on roadmaps and dependencies.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Leadership

CI/CD

SRE Practices

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Key Vault

Job description

Sphera is seeking an experienced DevOps Leader to drive and scale cloud infrastructure across multiple teams in the United States. You will own backlogs in Azure DevOps, guide Milestones and SLAs, and ensure secure, auditable production operations for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.

The role requires strong Azure expertise, people management skills, and a track record of delivering reliable, compliant DevOps solutions.